The bedstead was a light iron one, high from the floor, so that all this was plainly seen. From Wordnik.com. [In Nesting Time] Reference
The bedstead was a sort of berth, formed upon a marble shelf built across from wall to wall. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Naples] Reference
At the foot of the bedstead was a large heavy chest, which served as bureau, sofa and dressing case. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky] Reference
The bedstead was a crude wooden frame supported by perpendicular saplings fastened to floor and rafters. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Georgia sketches,] Reference
Instead of using the night for sleep, you spend it in reading; your bedstead is a bookcase, your pillows a desk!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the best bedroom the bedstead is a tubular half-tester, the toilet-ware gold and white, the carpet again tapestry. From Wordnik.com. [Town Life in Australia] Reference
Over the tester of the bedstead was a beautiful traceried window, of many lights, its date being the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
"Behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron," Dr. Cheney would thunder, "Is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
Over the tester of the bedstead was a beautifully traceried window, of many lights, its date being the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
Spirits of naphtha rubbed with a small painter's brush into every part of the bedstead is a certain way of getting rid of bugs. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Upon a low table by the bedstead were a flint and steel and tinder, and an earthenware oil lamp, not intended to be carried about. From Wordnik.com. [After London Or, Wild England] Reference
This "-- pointing to a low kind of bedstead --" was the sofa of our forefathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
But about the kind of bedstead there can be no doubt, whether there be one or two provided. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
To avoid this, some eminent critics take the Hebrew word rendered "bedstead" to mean "coffin.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The magnificent bedstead was put up by Napoleon III. for. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
There was no framework, -- nothing to represent the bedstead. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
In each was a bed and bedstead and smaller beds on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
On the other side of the partition, against which our bedstead was. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Elegant bedstead, shut off by a richly-gilt banister or low screen. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
A common syringe is an excellent thing to use in applying it to the bedstead. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
When Janice and Marty came down they were not talking of the bedstead at all. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Peppino was sitting on the edge of an iron bedstead, the very picture of despair. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
+New Bedroom+ -- bedstead of time of Louis XIV., enlarged in reign of Louis Philippe. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Benjamin Hoffman, the head of the family, was found seated on the edge of the bedstead. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
A small iron bedstead stood by its side, the clothes on which were all tumbled and tossed. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
An empty bedstead, a wooden cupboard, and three chairs were all the furniture the house contained. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
In the apartment adjoining is a bin that represents, no doubt, a French bedstead of the early ages. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
In case there were a number of adult guests the bedstead was screened with sheets hung upon strings. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Each bedroom had its bureau with bedstead to match, and the one downstairs had ruffled pillow-shams. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
At one end a bedstead stood, which an antiquarian would have accepted gladly as collateral for a loan. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Hatch, gurgling incoherently behind his gag, kicked to roll himself behind the flimsy protection of the bedstead. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
When father returned, he could see me standing by the head of the old-fashioned bedstead near one of its high posts. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
This was a narrow escape, but nevertheless they stuck to their floating bedstead as the only possible sleeping place. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Mr. Potter slept in a big, four-post bedstead, which was heaped high at this time of year with an enormous feather bed. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
But one piece of furniture retained its attitude, and that was the elephantine bedstead, which nothing short of an earthquake could move. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
They must not be afraid of Og the king of Bashan, though his head be as high as the ridge of a house, and his bedstead a bedstead of iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
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