truckle bed
Example Sentences
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When Lingard ordered him to receive Joanna into his house, he had a truckle bed put into the office—the only room he could spare.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
Long time I remembered some of those dreams which visited my truckle bed, placed on rollers a foot from the floor and thrice as many from the ridge pole.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
Which, indeed, is witnessed to by the whole goggle-eyed populace in the truckle bed.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Thou couldst never dole out food to men, when, lying in thy truckle bed, thou wast not to be found, while men were fighting.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
Each of these cells holds a small truckle bed, in which one prisoner sleeps; never more.
From American Notes by Charles Dickens
