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  • Anne goes to the extension on the bed-table, wrapping a towel around herself, her wet hair thwacking unpleasantly on the back of her neck and bare shoulders.

    A Date with the F&SF Oct/Nov All-Star Issue, Part 3: A Little Nougat | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

  • This bed-table is also billed as doubling as a washing tub.

    Three Unusual Baby Food Patents | Thingamababy 2007

  • Clifford was sitting up in bed, with the bed-table and typewriter pushed aside, and the keeper was standing at attention at the foot of the bed.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • While Crockett helped me struggle out of my frockcoat, Asher stepped to the head of the four-poster and enkindled an agate lamp that stood upon a small, oval bed-table.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Nerlis wiped off my forehead with a dry cloth, before folding it neatly and putting it on the bed-table next to the cup.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • She arranged Lucillia in bed and wheeled the bed-table close ready for the tray, and when Anneke came bustling in with it she waited only long enough to make sure that her patient had all she wanted before going to make herself presentable before going downstairs.

    The Fateful Bargain Neels, Betty 1989

  • After lying there panting for a moment in her disarranged nightgown, she lunged to the bed-table and rummaged for a weapon.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • After lying there panting for a moment in her disarranged nightgown, she lunged to the bed-table and rummaged for a weapon.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • I looked at this strange room, never forgotten, where I stood like a dead thing unmourned, unburied, tossed naked into the night; at the bed with its burden, the wall-hangings of stags and archers, the silver ewers; the bed-table shoved askew, with something on it: an empty wine-jar tumbled on its side, and a platter with the picked carcass of a chicken.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • It refreshed him; I kept it by him on the bed-table, in an earthen cooler.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

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