truckle bed

Example Sentences

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First, that he lie upon the truckle bed, Whiles his young master lieth o'er his head.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

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

I shrank back after peering through the small aperture, for there was my uncle stretched out on 'Brownie's' truckle bed.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

Each of these cells holds a small truckle bed, in which one prisoner sleeps; never more.

From American Notes by Dickens, Charles

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)