Beds

Examples

• No one could tell from the bodies of these wounded men he would leave in beds at the Palace, that they were Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Not a fragment of bone has been discovered in these beds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Amy was up at dawn, hustling people out of their beds and through their breakfasts, that the house might be got in order. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In the saddle --abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• So I went down to Quogue with one of my assistants and saw there for miles large beds of black sand on the beach in layers from one to six inches thick--hundreds of thousands of tons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These the finest beds and finest sorts. Jane Austen. Emma.
• There were the two beds, whose situation he perfectly remembered, and the fire still burning. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There are sixty beds in a ward; and the bolt's on, sixteen hours out of the four-and-twenty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Now, Margaret, you're young enough, and go about in the day; are the beds comfortable? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Beds: Advance from the Ponderous Bedsteads of Former Times. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Gentlemen and ladies alike had quitted their beds; and Oh! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You can imagine the state of things here when they were roused from their beds by the doctor's ringing and found me in this condition. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There was a lawn, and flower-beds, and at the boundary an iron fence shutting off the little field or park. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Iron, Brass, Springs, Surgical and Invalid Chairs and Beds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She did not know how it was, but people seemed to have lost the art of making the same kind of beds as they used to do in her youth. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You must have beds and bedding. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet as he lingered before the flower-beds in the morning sunshine, there was a certain isolation, a fear about him, as of something wanting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There were eight children, and their shoes were cobbled, their clothes woven, their very beds and chairs and tables built at home. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Green lawns with flower-beds are before the terrace, and the whole is encircled by the park. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The hill might have been the bottom of the sea, once, and been lifted up, with its oyster-beds, by an earthquake--but, then, how about the crockery? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Several rough beds made of old sacks, were huddled side by side on the floor. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Because of these facts, engineers spend great sums in grading down railroad beds, making them as nearly level as possible. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Mr. Trabb had sliced his hot roll into three feather-beds, and was slipping butter in between the blankets, and covering it up. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A child was weeding one of the little beds; as he stopped, he raised his pale face and disclosed the features of one of his former companions. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Beds be dear to fokes that don't keep geese, bain't they, Mister Fairway? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Iron was secured by sending teams around the neighborhood to pick up scrap, and when the scrap iron was all cleaned up, fresh metal was brought from ore beds in Oneida County. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here they were shut up together in this cell of golden-coloured wood, with two blue checked beds. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Can we have beds here? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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