truckle bed

Example Sentences

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Do you place your men as I told you," said the Earl, abruptly, "and bring me a truckle bed out of the guardroom.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

With this pleasant thought in mind, sitting on my truckle bed opposite the window, I gave myself up to a thousand philosophical reflexions of varying degrees of cheerfulness.

From The Mysterious Sketch by Erckmann-Chatrian

Which, indeed, is witnessed to by the whole goggle-eyed populace in the truckle bed.

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

First, that he lie upon the truckle bed, Whiles his young master lieth o'er his head.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

They carried Mary to her chamber, and laid her down on the low truckle bed, the shepherd moving as gently as he could, and doing his best to prevent her from suffering.

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma