truckle bed
Example Sentences
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I called Jacopo Antonio, a boy of fifteen years of age who acted as my servant and slept in a truckle bed, and bade him look for my rings.
From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters
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
Up a narrow stair sped Soapy and, opening one of the numerous doors, crossed to a truckle bed wherefrom a tousled head upreared itself.
From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol
"You have had a busy time of it in dreams, Master Weasel," said Dauntrees, since you laid yourself down on your truckle bed this morning.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
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
