down-bed

My condition has undergone a further amelioration, from having the mattress laid above the down-bed; it was like to choke me, besides that I lately read somewhere horrible things about the

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Oh, she does not jump off her down-bed on to a flowerbed.

Love Me Little, Love Me Long Charles Reade 1849

A down-bed pleases awhile, but soon we are weary and would rise.

The Lord's Prayer 1692

There Ponocrates was of opinion that they should make this fair orator drink again; and seeing he had showed them more pastime, and made them laugh more than a natural soul could have done, that they should give him ten baskets full of sausages, mentioned in his pleasant speech, with a pair of hose, three hundred great billets of logwood, five-and-twenty hogsheads of wine, a good large down-bed, and a deep capacious dish, which he said were necessary for his old age.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

There Ponocrates was of opinion that they should make this fair orator drink again; and seeing he had showed them more pastime, and made them laugh more than a natural soul could have done, that they should give him ten baskets full of sausages, mentioned in his pleasant speech, with a pair of hose, three hundred great billets of logwood, five-and-twenty hogsheads of wine, a good large down-bed, and a deep capacious dish, which he said were necessary for his old age.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

But then there are dainty green graffs in Saint Cuthbert's kirkyard, whare ane may sleep as if they were in a down-bed, till they hear the lavrock singing up in the air as high as the Castle; whereas, and behold, these London kirkyards are causeyed with through-stanes, panged hard and fast thegither; and my cloak being something threadbare, made but a thin mattress, so I was fain to give up my bed before every limb about me was crippled.

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

Cuthbert’s kirkyard, whare ane may sleep as if they were in a down-bed, till they hear the lavrock singing up in the air as high as the

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

There Ponocrates was of opinion that they should make this fair orator drink again; and seeing he had showed them more pastime, and made them laugh more than a natural soul could have done, that they should give him ten baskets full of sausages, mentioned in his pleasant speech, with a pair of hose, three hundred great billets of logwood, five-and-twenty hogsheads of wine, a good large down-bed, and a deep capacious dish, which he said were necessary for his old age.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Gae, mak for her a fine down-bed, and lay her at the wa’.’

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

Expect it not Ye who till noon upon a down-bed lie, Indulging feverish sleep. "

Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844