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I looked at the quaint little fourpost bed that I had found in that shop at Bath, a perfect specimen of its date, about 1699, with the old deep rose silk pressed over the shell carving.

Man and Maid Elinor Glyn 1903

We were taken up this, and washed our hands in a big room with a fourpost wooden bed and dark red hangings – just the sort of hangings that would not show the stains of gore in the dear old adventurous times.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

Then, asking lively questions the while as if to conceal a blunder and its correction, I moved quickly between him and it and slipped the missive under a pillow of the fourpost bedstead.

The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884

We leave him lying stiffly on his solemn fourpost bed, with his keen, proud face turned fearlessly towards his Maker.

With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882

It contained four large fourpost beds, a rickety table, and some chairs of infirm purpose and fundamental unsoundness.

The Civil War in America 1861

It is equiped with a fourpost lift and painted floors.

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It is equiped with a fourpost lift and painted floors.

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No two rooms were alike; each possessed some marked characteristic of its own -- one bedroom, for example, was distinguished by its fourpost bed with its paintings on the canopy and head -- another, by its little two-light high window with Adam and Eve in stained glass; another with a little square-window containing a crucifix, which was generally concealed by a sliding panel; another by two secret cupboards over the fire-place, and its recess fitted as an oratory; another by a magnificent piece of tapestry representing Saint Clara and Saint Thomas of Aquin, each holding a monstrance, with a third great monstrance in the centre, supported by angels.

By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892

a fourpost wooden bed and dark red hangings -- just the sort of hangings that would not show the stains of gore in the dear old adventurous times.

The Wouldbegoods 1891

"Firstly: -- A fourpost bedstead, with hangings of Hungary lace very elegantly trimmed with olive-coloured cloth, and six chairs and a counterpane to match; the whole in very good condition, and lined with soft red and blue shot-silk.

L'avare. English 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647