What is "bedstead"

Usage examples of "bedstead".

Prince Vasili left the chair on which he had been leaning, and- with air which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not understand him it was so much the worse for them- did not go up to the dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its silken hangings.

When he is half dead with the beating, they lay him down on his plank bedstead and cover him over with his pelisse.

One day, when I was ill and lying in hospital, Sirotkin was also there, stretched out on a bedstead not far from me.

When he had been well beaten they would wrap him up in his pelisse, and throw him upon his plank bedstead, leaving him to digest his drink.

For the most part he remained silent, seated on his little bedstead, occupied in mending his own boots.

The officer on duty took him to the civil prison and pointed out the place where his plank bedstead would stand.

He set down the bag, and sat down on his bedstead with his legs crossed and without daring to raise his eyes.

Accordingly abandoning it as a route, I cautiously moved the bedstead against it to hamper any attack which might be made on it later from the next room.

All I could do was to shut and bolt the open connecting door, as well as its mate on the opposite side--pushing a bedstead against the one and a bureau against the other, and moving a washstand in front of the hall door.

Then the three of us dragged from another room a wide four-poster bedstead, crowding it laterally against the window.

Of furniture there was only a narrow iron bedstead, a dingy wash-stand, a small table, a large bookcase, an iron music-rack, and three old-fashioned chairs.

It was a pretty place, furnished with an assortment of furniture she had chosen for herself years ago--a small brass bedstead, a dressing table of yew and a triple mirror she had discovered in the attics.

They were both then lying on the sacking of the bedstead in the chamber where Mademoiselle L.

The lower portion of the other is hidden from view by the head of the unwieldy bedstead which is thrust close up against it.

Getting upon the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over the head-board minutely at the second casement.