straw-bed

That is all I would say: this is all I have to wish for — then I shall be out of all your ways; and I shall be taken care of; and bread and water without your tormentings, will be dainties: and my straw-bed the easiest I have lain in-for — I cannot tell how long!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And the mellow straw-bed will be softer for thee, since pride must have its fall.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Thus in many peasant houses, a straw-bed is made on the floor, and on it the children and servants sleep during the night.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

This at last aroused Miss Blackmar, who found that the brick had burned through the cloth in which it was wrapped, the straw-bed and two army blankets.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

Pidgie has been lying on his straw-bed, sick with a fever.

Hurrah for New England! The Virginia Boy's Vacation Louisa C. Tuthill

He then ransacked the house, and, between some blankets underneath the straw-bed upon which the old folks were sleeping, he found a small bag, which contained some gold, silver and paper money, amounting to over one thousand dollars.

The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries John N. Reynolds

The bureau was gone, and the straw-bed, though made with care, looked comfortless in comparison with the couch in which we first saw Isabel.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

I think Clarendon himself would very much prefer one of these nice little state-rooms, where he could make his toilet so comfortably, to his straw-bed in the old Go-Ahead.

Hurrah for New England! The Virginia Boy's Vacation Louisa C. Tuthill

Manuel's sleeping quarters were a straw-bed and a couple of old cloaks behind the counter.

The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

He says, the king was often seen lying upon a common straw-bed among the soldiers, with a piece of brown bread in one hand, and a bit of charcoal in t'other, to draw an encampment, or town that he was besieging.

Selected English Letters Various 1913