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Examples
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This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
King Lear 2004
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But as madame Wang pressed her again and again to sit on the couch,
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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While the rich man's a-sleeping on his velvet couch,
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And sleep, blest guardian of the poor man's couch,
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars 39-65 Lucan
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This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
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All thy sister goddesses are at thy side and behind thy couch,
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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“Brutus,” replied Ligurius, rising at once from his couch,
History of Julius Caesar Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 1904
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Thence too in the evening, ere he went to his small couch,
The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887
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"All right," the angry youth had muttered, tossing on his iron couch,
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884
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She faltered again, leaning the fair length of her limbs on a couch,
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868
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