There was an old fourposter and a nightstand of oak. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Of Honour]
'I didn't know about the fourposter,' I said a little weakly. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
After when from midnights unwards the fourposter harp quartetto. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The furniture was mahogany, big and solid, and the bed was a vast mahogany fourposter. From Wordnik.com. [Twin Moons] Reference
The dominant feature was a fourposter on a dais, sumptuously canopied and counterpaned. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
The room was large, and the canopied fourposter had been made from a pattern of his own. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
This dyed the dimity-hangings of the fourposter; made ruddy pools in the great mahogany wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
The old mahogany fourposter with the red rep hangings had been brought out from among the lumber, and set up afresh in. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
But part of it also has to do with the bed itself: a double fourposter with a feather mattress and an eiderdown quilt. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
I introduced her (Frankfurters, numborines, why drive fear?) to our fourposter tunies chantreying under Castrucci Sinior and De. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I thought about races I'd ridden in, and won, and lost; and I thought about Louise, a good deal about Louise and fourposter beds. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
He and Geli reach their arrangement hidden from the occupied streets by remnants of walls, in an old fourposter bed facing a dark pier glass. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Related to it is the St. Merry where you can have a fourposter or a former confessional – I think it was a monastery – but it is more expensive. From Wordnik.com. [navigo] Reference
John, stalking solemnly and noiselessly in a long black coat, himself led the two women to the bedroom, where he left them; they sat down one on each side of the great fourposter. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
She smiled as if that suited her well, and we were shown into a large wood-panelled room with stretches of carpet, antique polished furniture, and a huge fourposter bed decked with American-style white muslin frills. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
Bill and Gus spent the night in the best spare room, under the heavy covers of an immense fourposter. From Wordnik.com. [Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In] Reference
We all sat on the bed -- it is a mahogany fourposter with green curtains very good for tents, only the housekeeper doesn't allow it, and Oswald said. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
I remember seeing one all forlorn in a vast magnificent palace bedroom where a fourposter hung with brocade or tapestry would have looked more at home. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Germany] Reference
Right then I heard Sally coming, so I grabbed Miss Amelia and dragged her under the fourposter, where I always hid when caught doing something I shouldn't. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
A brilliant forecaster, she knew before her customer did what colors she would want to wear, what flowers she would want to see on her curtains as she glanced out from her fourposter bed. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Two large chests of drawers, with rounded bellies, and a very beautiful washing-stand also occupied places round the room, and against the inner wall rose a single, fourposter bed of Spanish chestnut, also carved. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Room] Reference
She was just as pleasant and condescendin 'as could be all the evenin', and when I put her to bed in the fourposter in the spare room, she praised me again, and said that when the King came she would give me a carcanet of rubies, whatever that is. From Wordnik.com. [Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls] Reference
The bed -- a large wooden one, but not a fourposter -- stood on the left-hand side of the room from the entrance, with the head against the wall nearest the outside passage, and the foot partly in line with the open window, which was about eight feet away from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Shrieking Pit] Reference
We had first some psychic reminiscences and Seraphine described in detail how on a certain night years ago she and her sister were sleeping together in a heavy mahogany fourposter bed, when the whole bed with the two women was lifted several inches from the floor and rocked about, and was then held suspended in the air while the chamber resounded with strange music. From Wordnik.com. [Possessed] Reference
A family fourposter, where Ann slept with Drusilla Elliott, and another bed in the same room took Bess. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
He’d replaced the double bed with a twin-size brass fourposter, selected a color scheme of brown-and-white tweed. From Wordnik.com. [A STRANGER IS WATCHING] Reference
In the bedroom I'm clearing out everything that's shouldn't belong there - art things, papers, kitchen things, big storage boxes and stuff like that. http: / / www. apartmenttherapy.com / ny / beds-mattresses / hemnes-fourposter-bed-frame-at-ikea-029616 with good quality white sheets. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
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