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The bedpress is just large enough to receive a bed; and under it, if need be, might be placed a trucklebed, for young children.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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The kitchen, _j_, has a smaller bedroom, _d_, attached to it, which will hold a narrow single bed for a domestic; and, if need be, a narrow trucklebed under it, for a child.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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Where the room is too small for two beds, a narrow trucklebed under another, will answer.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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What a course was thine: from that first trucklebed (in Joan of
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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