truckle bed

Example Sentences

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His pointing to the truckle bed in the corner, seemed gradually to bring that poor couch to Bradley's wandering remembrance.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

Madame Elizabeth was placed in a kind of kitchen, or wash-room, with a truckle bed in it, on the ground floor.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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

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 Albee, John

The prophet had lain down with it on the truckle bed.

From The Mormon Prophet by Dougall, Lily