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"I suppose that's what they call a truckle-bed," he mused. From Wordnik.com. [Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large] Reference
Oh lord how they'd chuckle if babes in their truckle. From Wordnik.com. [The Humours of Whiskey] Reference
We have no opposition party to fear nor to truckle to. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Smerdyakov was lying on a truckle-bed in a separate ward. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
But I made her comfortable on the pillow of my truckle-bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
A wooden cross hung on the wall with a truckle bed below it. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Off with your cap, Snob; down on your knees, Snob, and truckle. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
Why truckle to a handful of disloyal North of Ireland traitors?. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
The stone passage was a solitude, and the truckle-bed was empty. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
Garric had laid the castaway on a truckle bed in the common room. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
It's sold as a distinctive mini-truckle, in both whole rounds and halves. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
The smuggler had hanged himself by a cord taken from his own truckle-bed. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
He raised his right foot over the lip of the truckle bed and stepped down. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
It was a light truckle bed, old-fashioned but serviceable, and easy to handle. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Wall]
A man lay there, on a truckle – bed, and William Swidger stood at the bedside. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain] Reference
Put my supper in the little off – room below, and have the truckle – bed made. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Again the doors of the ward opened, to admit two attendants pushing a truckle-bed. From Wordnik.com. [Two Tales of Old Strasbourg] Reference
Then she heard her find the little truckle bed and pull it out, and lie down upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Each of these cells holds a small truckle bed, in which one prisoner sleeps; never more. From Wordnik.com. [American Notes for General Circulation] Reference
She had lost it again for the moment, in the surprise of discovering the empty truckle-bed. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
If a man is well off they will truckle to him no end, though he laughs at all their teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
Looking in, I saw a lighted candle on a table, a bench, and a mattress on a truckle bedstead. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
A truckle-bed for the children or chamber servants was pushed under the principal bed by day. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Jim Dixon and Gordon Comstock both have jobs they hate, and authorities to whom they must truckle. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
So saying he drew a truckle-bed close to the fire, and heaped it with the skins of sheep and goats. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
The truckle-bed, as she passed it, obtruded itself again on her attention, and forced her to think of it. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
It was a low truckle-bed, placed parallel with the wall, and close to one of the doors on the bedroom side. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
He advanced to the truckle-bed, and, steadying himself against the opposite wall, looked at it attentively. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
The truckle-bed, and the strange position in which it was placed, dwelt on her mind all through the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
She was up from the truckle-bed directly, wildly feeling about her for her basket, and gazing at him in affright. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
He indeed conducted Halbert Glendinning to a small apartment overlooking the lake, which was accommodated with a truckle bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
Then I took it to Custer for his signature; he tore his hair and swore he'd die before he'd "truckle to that miscreant Grant". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
They themselves lived in spartan little rooms with nothing but a shredded mat, a creaky truckle bed, and dark icons upon the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
That night the snoring resounded once more on the inner side of the screen, and old Mazey was back again in the comfortless truckle-bed. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
Jenkin, — for in the said back closet were the two apprentices accommodated in one truckle-bed, — “I can sleep under the counter.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
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