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The giddiness caught him and he clutched at the head-rail of the bed to steady himself.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

Finally, one of the bystanders more daring than the rest advanced, and boldly turned back the hood of the head-rail, letting it hang down over his shoulders, and the head of an old man was revealed.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

A murmur of surprise and expectation now ran through the crowd, and the same bold hand bodily removed the head-rail and the robe beneath it; and there stood old Bartlemy in his gray woollen tunic, his legs bare from the knees down, and his feet encased in skin shoes reaching to his ankles.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

With an air of pride the old man, clad in his woman's dress, consisting of a long, loose, blue robe surmounted by a long, red head-rail which reached to his knees, walked back to the horses.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

The Anglo-Saxon ladies seldom, if ever, went with their heads bare; sometimes the veil, or _head-rail_, was replaced by a golden head-band, or it was worn over the veil.

Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

The tow-rope surged over, snapping the iron stanchions of the head-rail one after another as if they had been sticks of sealing-wax.

A Set of Six 1906

The tow-rope surged over, snapping the iron stanchions of the head-rail one after another as if they had been sticks of sealing-wax.

A Set of Six Joseph Conrad 1890

Look at that, sir, "-- as the schooner leapt from the crest of a sea into the hollow beyond, and the foam buzzed and boiled to the level of her lee head-rail and then went glancing away dizzily aft --" ain't that just perfectly beautiful?

A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy Harry Collingwood 1886

But what was the old black brier-wood pipe doing on the head-rail between the two graves?

Children of the Tenements 1881