You can have a seat on a plank-bed there are comfortable chairs for the more delicate and eat your food with an aluminum fork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

A horsehair sofa, of a hard old-fashioned type, formed a downy couch for one; the dining-table, covered by one of the travelling-rugs, answered as a bed -- rather of the prison plank-bed order -- for number two; and the old-fashioned spinet, standing against the wall, furnished sleeping accommodation for number three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

Many people leave woven kerchiefs and gifts, hung on the parapet of the plank-bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

There ought to have been a crucifix on the wall above the plank-bed, but there wasn't a crucifix.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree of Heaven] Reference

In the evening I took a short walk on the beach and returned at night to my plank-bed, where I slept soundly all night.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

The following night, as Askenov was reclining upon his plank-bed trying to sleep, he heard some one approach and place himself at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exiled to Siberia] Reference

As I retired to sleep on my plank-bed my mind was full of these reflections, and when the gas was turned out, and I was left in darkness and silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference

The boys do no work on Sundays, and once a year have a ten days 'tramp in the country; the buildings are spacious and airy, but I was sorry to see a plank-bed used as a punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference

And my couch in the cooling gallery -- my favorite couch, in my favorite corner, which I had secured with gusto on coming in -- it was a bed of thorns, with hideous visions of a plank-bed to follow!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures] Reference

To go straight to his plank-bed in the cowhouse; to eat a little more dry bread, borrow some cheese or greasy bacon, munch it alone, and sit musing till sleep came -- he who had nothing to muse about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

They and her face showed no memory of the prison-cell, the plank-bed, and the prison walls; they showed no sense of Drayton's decency in coming to meet her, no sense of anything at all but of the queerness, the greatness and the glory of the world -- of him, perhaps, as a part of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree of Heaven] Reference

Thank your stars then for every day's experience, for, when you have learned the lesson of it and turned its discipline into service, the prison shall transform itself into a hermitage, the dungeon into a home; the burnt skilly shall be sweet in your mouth; and your rest on the plank-bed the dreamless slumber of a little child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions] Reference

Cross's plank-bed, is obliged to subsist on the miserable prison fare, is dressed in the prison garb, is compelled to submit to every kind of physical indignity, is shut out from all communication with his relatives or friends except for one visit during the second three months, is denied the use of pen and ink, and debarred from all reading except the blessed Book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference

Thank your stars then for every day’s experience, for, when you have learned the lesson of it and turned its discipline into service, the prison shall transform itself into a hermitage, the dungeon into a home; the burnt skilly shall be sweet in your mouth; and your rest on the plank-bed the dreamless slumber of a little child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference

They were putting him on a cold plank-bed on a stone floor in a damp cell! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)] Reference