How To Use Bedstead In A Sentence
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Cream voile has been lavishly draped around the metal four- poster bedstead to make an attractive centrepiece.
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My bedstead was tall, with four posters, and had long gold curtains, with a sun pattern on them, tied back with a blue ribbon.
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The four of clubs is described by some as the Devil's bedstead and is loathed by many players, who claim that no good hand can include this card.
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The tenacious Hyde constitution, that was a proverb in Greenfield, conquered at last, and Hitty became conscious, to find herself in a chamber whose plastered walls were crumbling away with dampness and festooned with cobwebs, while the uncarpeted floor was checkered with green stains of mildew, and the very old four-post bedstead on which she lay was fringed around the rickety tester with rags of green moreen, mould-rotted.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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Huge arched fire-places; chimney-pieces carved with armorial bearings; oak tables absolutely joisted to sustain their vast bulk; bedsteads that would not have groaned with the weight of a Titan; -- the whole intended to oppose a ponderous resistance to the ravages of time and fashion.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Maria and Mamma's room had a large brass bedstead and a small cot for Ettore.
THE GOLDEN LION
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You glance over the thick tubes that make up the emperor-size brass bedstead, and smile.
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She told me to make my bed and gave me what she called a duster for the purpose of cleaning the iron bedstead.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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I got loose, tied a blanket and a counterpane together, fastened it to the bedstead, and let myself out of the window, and did not go home that night, but met my two pals and dossed in a haystack.
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An armoire stood between the door and the bedstead, an old four-poster crouching against the left wall, with no mattress and the canopy in tatters.
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We peeked inside some of rooms, which were furnished elaborately and the brass bedsteads were still covered with old white sheets.
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She peered over the edge of the bedstead and saw a cliff of bedcover stretching endlessly to the stone floor.
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While you should consider changing your mattress every 10 years or so, the right bedstead or frame should last a lifetime (or at least as long as the marriage).
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They turned it endways up with the bedsteads and mattresses.
At Swim, Two Boys
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The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges.
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An iron bedstead, skewed across a smashed floor; a torn curtain.
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My own interest in Bethlem and madness came from a number of sources; the onomatopoeic clangour of the word Bedlam itself, suggesting an infernal din, like a bedstead falling downstairs, somehow echoed in the vast Victorian asylum near my childhood home, and its noisy but harmless residents, who occasionally spilled out into the streets, weeping and shouting.
Bedlam
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Everywhere, solid wooden furniture, original doors and iron bedsteads are in evidence.
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There were twisted bedsteads, snatches of curtain and other remnants of four civilian houses.
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Messrs.A. W. Southard and Volney R. Sears, of Falls City, Neb., have patented an improved invalid bedstead, which is provided with ingenious mechanism for placing the invalid in different positions.
Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures
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Beds, which include divans, mattresses and bedsteads, were valued at £974m, with bedsteads the major growth sector in recent years.
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The chief conspirator was my friend the "cracksman," who made tools out of portions of his bedstead, that opened not only the lock of our own cell, but that of every other cell in the prison, if required.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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Your removal men will dismantle bedsteads and take down pictures and wall decorations.
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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy 3.
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They fought over bedsteads and cupboards and even scraps of carpet.
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Still these doubts (hobgoblins who perch on my bedstead at night) don't keep me from trying.
52449_CLARA
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The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders.
The Orange Fairy Book
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His furniture was very masculine; he had a bureau made from reddish, dark wood, with matching dresser and night-stands at both sides of the bedstead.
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The bedstead is much about my size.
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As well as conventional divans, the company has a good selection of designs, iron and wooden bedsteads and upholstered contemporary frames, available in various fabrics.
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We sit cross-legged, facing each other, on a charpoy - a bedstead - in the middle of the farmyard.
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Though it matched their bedstead, Steph wanted to be rid of the wardrobe.
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There are bedsteads of bamboo; the universal tortilla-stone; mats of palm-leaf; baskets of the same material; a small altar-like fireplace in the middle of the floor; a bandolin hanging by the wall; a saddle of stamped leather, profusely ornamented with silver nails and plates; a hair bridle, with huge Mameluke bit; an escopette and sword, or machete; an endless variety of gaily-painted bowls, dishes, and cups, but neither knife, fork, nor spoon.
The Rifle Rangers
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I have seldom seen any furniture in the rooms, excepting a sofa or bedstead, which is an oblong wooden frame, with four legs, having a seat made either of reeds, and then called
Travels in Nubia
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There was a very scanty cinderous fire in the grate by which they sat; and there was a tent bedstead in the room, with a bed upon it and a coverlet.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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While trying to sail into dreams, something she couldn't place, a spirit perhaps, flew around her bedstead.
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He forced himself to climb the creaky staircase and check the upstairs rooms, but they were all empty save for one of the bedrooms that contained a rusty iron bedstead with even rustier springs.
Ricochet
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Everywhere, solid wooden furniture, original doors and iron bedsteads are in evidence.
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Often there is nothing that can be properly called bedclothes at all — just a heap of old overcoats and miscellaneous rags on a rusty iron bedstead.
The Road to Wigan Pier
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The room reviewed, overlooking a quiet street, boasted matching art deco furniture, including a free-standing wardrobe and a handsome wooden bedstead.
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A bedstead and a long-broken twin tub washing machine, hang together in this contorted web.
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Og, king of Bashan, these words are inserted: “For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants: behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron: is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.”
Theologico-Political Treatise
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The cool linen sheets tempted her to extend her toes till they touched the ivory bedstead and brushed the relief curls of a grinning cherub.
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The bedstead, the floor, the pictures on the wall were all spotlessly new by any standards.
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Inside, the decor is New England simplicity: perfectly laundered white cotton curtains edged in lace, pine furniture and iron bedsteads.
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They pulled back their fancy coverlet, climbed into their fancy bedstead, read briefly from the most recent fancy literature, and then dreamt the night away.
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An immense bedstead squatted next to a series of fragrant cedar chests emblazoned with someone's owl sigil.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Lucrezia swinging in a hammock in the centre of a large room, the four corners of which are occupied by four bedsteads containing four children, in the production of whom not exactly _four_ fathers, as they ought for perfect symmetry, but as a compromise _three_, have assisted.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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It is a small, harp-shaped instrument on legs, exceedingly coarse and clumsy in its construction, -- the case rough and unpolished, the legs like those of a kitchen table, with wooden castors such as were formerly used in the construction of cheap bedsteads of the "trundle" variety.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
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Though it matched their bedstead, Steph wanted to be rid of the wardrobe.
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The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Instantly the ground opened, and the astonished king, peeping in, saw a flight of rough steps, and, at the bottom of them, the fakeer sitting, just as he used to sit, on his rickety bedstead, reading the Koran!
The Orange Fairy Book
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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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Instead, she drew her legs over the edge of her bedstead and her night garments against her chest to keep out the morning air, listening to the din in the Mynaen Courtyard below.
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There was a very scanty cinderous fire in the grate by which they sat; and there was a tent bedstead in the room with a bed upon it and a coverlet.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Over the bedstead (more often than not, by the way, it is composed of four planks of varying lengths and thickness, placed across two trestles) I used first to place my oilskin, then my _p'u-k'ai_, and that little creeper which rhymes with hug did not disturb me much.
Across China on Foot
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Inside, the decor is New England simplicity: perfectly laundered white cotton curtains edged in lace, pine furniture and iron bedsteads.
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In answer to our calumniators who say we wish to destroy property, I answer that we will not destroy the bedstead, but we will annihilate the bugs!
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In one corner, an old bedstead stood, the tattered bedsheets fortified by a quilt that Charley recognized as her mother's handiwork.
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A bedstead and a long-broken twin tub washing machine, hang together in this contorted web.
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An armoire stood between the door and the bedstead, an old four-poster crouching against the left wall, with no mattress and the canopy in tatters.
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There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding.
Sketches by Boz
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He fluffed up pillows and put them against the bedstead.
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Even the palaces of the mikado in Kioto never contained tables, chairs, bedsteads or any such inconvenient and space-robbing thing.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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But one change did come, a change that rocked the foundations of society and sent clergymen flocking to their pulpits to condemn the new development: the twin bedstead.
The Twin Bed | Edwardian Promenade
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It was furnished with an iron bedstead, a bureau and a few chairs.
CORMORANT
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While the bride was changing to her infare dress, older hands quickly took down the bedsteads, tied up the flock ticks and shuck ticks in coverlids and quilts, shoved them back into the corners so as to make room for the frolic and dancing.
Blue Ridge Country
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Instead of using the night for sleep, you spend it in reading; your bedstead is a bookcase, your pillows a desk!
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Africans drink it in immense quantities: in Unyamwezi the standing bedsteads, covered with bark-slabs, are all made sloping so as to drain off the liquor.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The parson's daughter had had her way; Daddy Darwin grumbled at first, but in the end he got a bottle-green Sunday-coat out of the oak-press that matched the bedstead, and put the house-key into his pocket, and went to church too.
Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale
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Broadway, and the dolly with the "shash" and "pairesol" which she had seen the day before under its glass case was hers for twenty-five dollars, and the plainer bit of china, who was to be dollie's mother and perform the parental duty of "panking her when she was naughty," was also purchased, and the dishes and the table and stove and bedstead, with ruffled sheets and pillow-cases and blue satin spread and the washboard and clothes bars and tiny wringer, with divers others toys, were bought with a disregard of expense which made Miss McDonald a wonder to those who waited on her.
Miss McDonald
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a night between regulation blankets, on a straw mattress, with rank grass for a bedstead, is as comfortable as the peaceful slumber they enjoy betwixt their own white sheetings.
The Civil War in America
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The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges.
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The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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An immense bedstead squatted next to a series of fragrant cedar chests emblazoned with someone's owl sigil.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The room reviewed, overlooking a quiet street, boasted matching art deco furniture, including a free-standing wardrobe and a handsome wooden bedstead.
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Large mahogany wardrobes and chests of drawers matched the bedsteads.
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The bedstead is a four-poster, with a deal of old hanging and valance, and is, as I once said, probably connected with more than 24 Bs, — which I remember my hearers was pleased to laugh at, at the time.
Somebody's Luggage
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He was lying on a small camp-bedstead in a corner between the fireplace and the wall, and in a glass on a mantelpiece was an arum lily, sere and yellow, which drooped lamentably down over his head.
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For night travelling, brass bedsteads with handsome eiderdown quilts were provided.
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Everywhere, solid wooden furniture, original doors and iron bedsteads are in evidence.
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Rub the bedsteads in the joints with equal parts of spirits of turpentine and kerosene oil, and the cracks of the surbase in rooms where there are many.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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The double bed has been fitted out with a lurid, multi-coloured mattress cover the hues of which are reflected in a fan-shaped mirror attached to the bedstead.
