truckle bed

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Joan sang appropriate words in the sweetest tones of her rich contralto voice, her eyes, like those of the audience, riveted on the face of the little invalid as he lay on his truckle bed.

From The Love Affairs of Pixie by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Madame Elizabeth was placed in a kind of kitchen, or wash-room, with a truckle bed in it, on the ground floor.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The young fellow laughed, and, snatching up a stout stick that rested against his truckle bed, said he was ready.

From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John

When Lingard ordered him to receive Joanna into his house, he had a truckle bed put into the office—the only room he could spare.

From An Outcast of the Islands by Conrad, Joseph

Iris came back from the void to find herself lying on a truckle bed in a dimly-lighted hovel.

From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis