bed-post

Henry Murray, whose strictures on public dining arrangements are mentioned in Note 23, is an entertaining source of domestic detail - barbers 'shops, hotel security, Bibles in bedrooms, and bridal suites ( "the want of delicacy that suggested the idea is only equalled by the want of taste with which it is carried out ... a matrimonial couch, hung with white silk curtains, and blazing with a bright jet of gas from each bed-post!").

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In his fervour to begin observing he directed that an old telescope, which he had used in his first celestial attempts, should be tied at one end to the bed-post, and at the other fixed near his eye as he reclined.

Two on a Tower 2006

His big slouch hat even was cocked jauntily over the bed-post.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

Disturbed slumbers — The bed-post — Two wizards — What can I do? —

Lavengro 2004

The body was still resting on its legs, leaning against the end of the side of the bed, while one of the arms was close clasped round the bed-post.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

Unwilling, however, to indulge in melancholy thoughts, I sprang out of bed and proceeded to dress myself, and, whilst dressing, I felt an irresistible inclination to touch the bed-post.

Lavengro 2004

Disturbed slumbers — The bed-post — Two wizards — What can I do? —

Lavengro 2004

The old man in his anger had tried to expel the girl; but she had hung on to the bed-post and would not go; and he had been frightened, when the maid came up crying and screaming murder.

The Way We Live Now 2004

Meager remembered the day very well indeed, and Miss Meager, when the police came the next morning, had accounted for her black eye by a tragical account of a fall she had had against the bed-post in the dark.

Phineas Redux 2004

Once upon a time there lived a king who was so fond of wine that he could not go to sleep unless he knew he had a great flaskful tied to his bed-post.

The Crimson Fairy Book 2003