poor bed

Example Sentences

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And for thee, my boy, when faint beneath thy lovely burden, could I refuse to give thy slumbers that poor bed of rest!

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

And up into her dark chamber, where she lay on her poor bed, came great and little, young and old, to ask after the good creature.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

In a darkened apartment of that same town sat Nora Jones, the very personification of despair, on a low stool, with her head resting on the side of a poor bed.

From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Michael knelt beside the poor bed and buried his face in the coverlet.

From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston

The furniture could not have been simpler—a bad chair, a poor bed, and a broken-down table.

From Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 by Hale, Edward Everett