poor bed

Example Sentences

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So saying, he felt his way among the throng of weary-hearted sleepers, and crept into his poor bed.

From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles

The furniture could not have been simpler—a bad chair, a poor bed, and a broken-down table.

From Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 by Hale, Edward Everett

You laugh now as then at me, and my poor bed, which has heard for more than a year past only my sighs and prayers for your majesty's success.

From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.

Grass from a strong bed grown in twenty-four hours is much more tender and better in every way than grass grown in forty-eight hours from a poor bed.

From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by Hexamer, F. M.

Entering, we saw the poor, little soon-to-be mother huddled on her poor bed, while an older woman stood near warning her that the oil would soon be all gone and they would be in darkness.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Stewart, Elinore Pruitt