The cell was bedless. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : Now for a cup of cocoa and then bed. ,I reserved a bed at the old inn. ,making his bed under a tree. ,a gravel bed for the roadway. ,a stone laid on bed. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to bed oysters. ,bedding the flagstones in concrete. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : He says we can bed there for the night. From Dictionary.com.
"Get some water heated," said I; and the wretchedness of our bedless bed and furnitureless room crossed my mind at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Personally she didn't care where she slept, even if it was a normally unused bedless room, just so long as she occupied it on her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Demetrios Virgin]
Love is represented as homeless, bedless and barefooted: would not that be a shabby description of the Kosmos and quite out of the truth?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Its movement when it saw me, raised that head and slivered forward, was like flowing water-living water, it seemed, a bedless river without banks. From Wordnik.com. [Sign of the Unicorn]
We should have tortured him, deprived him of sleep and food, and played Metallica loudly at all hours during his stay in a bedless, cold steel cell!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Thanks To Obama’s Rejection Of Torture, Abdulmuttalab Has Been Providing Intel On Al Qaeda] Reference
It is a building where the homeless, bedless, penniless man, if he be lucky, may CASUALLY rest his weary bones, and then work like a navvy next day to pay for it. From Wordnik.com. [A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS] Reference
Rudely puffed the winds of heaven; roguishly clomb up the all-destructive urchin; and, lo! in a moment night re-established her void empire, and the cit groped along the wall, suppered but bedless, occult from guidance, and sorrily wading in the kennels. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
Earlier reports in the same magazine on December 13 and 14 described her ordeal and suggested her case was similar to others, one involving a young Icelandic mother and her 8-year-old daughter who were reportedly held in a dirty, bedless room for 15 hours prior to being deported. From Wordnik.com. [Icelandic woman chained on arrival at JFK for 1995 overstay] Reference
All were stretched out in bedless bunks, unwilling to move. From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
He preferred to sleep so, even when bedless, having been brought up in shoe-and-stockingless society. From Wordnik.com. [The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables] Reference
"It's awful to think of their lying out yonder, bedless, maybe supperless, on a night like this," said Mrs. Wallace. From Wordnik.com. [Hunted and Harried] Reference
The Hungerstraf I found to consist of confinement to a bedless and fireless barrack on a diet of pure and undiluted water. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur] Reference
I text Andres hoping he isnt too drunk to remember us and leave us bedless for our last night .... 30 minutes later still no reply. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
He had no money, he had no place to sleep; and, what was wonderful to Richard, he appeared in no whit cast down by his bankrupt and bedless state. From Wordnik.com. [The President A novel] Reference
A clean-profiled, erect young man in the rear rank of the bedless emulated the terrapin, drawing his head far down into the shell of his coat collar. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
I knew, too, what kind of medicine that sort of tired feeling needed, and that until the bribe was paid the young woman and her party would be bedless. From Wordnik.com. [The Under Dog] Reference
"Wants?" said the bedless captive to his old chum, "no, thank you, not a want!" implying, with his eyes, that the cloud overhanging Greenleaf for favors shown to -- hmm!. From Wordnik.com. [Kincaid's Battery] Reference
Of course, some car needs to get crushed, and we had three volunteers: the Torqueless Rotards RX-7 (which flipped over yesterday), a head-gasket-challenged BMW E30, and a bedless Ford Ranger. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik: Top] Reference
Capping off the night was post-dinner party hosted by Tracey at "her place," though anyone hoping for a nosy glimpse of le vrai lit d'Emin was in for disappointment, as the party was in her (bedless) studio. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
I will not describe to you how, worn by poverty, poor lodging, scanty food, and an unquiet conscience, my health began to fail, and in the long nights, as I wandered bedless in the rainy streets, the most cruel sufferings of the body were added to the tortures of my mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
These clothes and trinkets they were wearing were as fine and dainty as the shrewdest stretch of the sumptuary laws allowed to people of their degree; and in these pretty clothes, she crying on his shoulder, and he trying to comfort her with hopeful words set to the music of despair, they went from the judgment seat out into the world homeless, bedless, breadless; why, the very beggars by the roadsides were not so poor as they. From Wordnik.com. [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5.] Reference
The people seem to be almost bedless. From Wordnik.com. [History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.] Reference
It exhaled at any rate a simple freshness, and I catch its pure breath, at our infantile Albany, as the very air of long summer afternoons -- occasions tasting of ample leisure, still bookless, yet beginning to be bedless, or cribless; tasting of accessible garden peaches in a liberal backward territory that was still almost part of a country town; tasting of many-sized uncles, aunts, cousins, of strange legendary domestics, inveterately but archaically Irish, and whose familiar remarks and "criticism of life" were handed down, as well as of dim family ramifications and local allusions -- mystifications always -- that flowered into anecdote as into small hard plums; tasting above all of a big much-shaded savoury house in which a softly-sighing widowed grandmother, Catherine Barber by birth, whose attitude was a resigned consciousness of complications and accretions, dispensed an hospitality seemingly as joyless as it was certainly boundless. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
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