In his
bed the writer rolled over on his side and lay quite still.
Winesberg Ohio
He was hidden from the
bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing.
Of Human Bondage
"What is this, sister?" said Agnes to Gauchère, gazing at the little creature exposed, which was screaming and writhing on the wooden
bed, terrified by so many glances.
Notre Dame de Paris
"When are you coming to
bed?" he always replied, very brave but in a whisper, as if he feared the bears and wolves might have him.
The Little White Bird
(for, as has been said, all the inns he lodged in were castles to his eyes), and that the daughter of the innkeeper was daughter of the lord of the castle, and that she, won by his high-bred bearing, had fallen in love with him, and had promised to come to his
bed for a while that night without the knowledge of her parents; and holding all this fantasy that he had constructed as solid fact, he began to feel uneasy and to consider the perilous risk which his virtue was about to encounter, and he resolved in his heart to commit no treason to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, even though the queen Guinevere herself and the dame Quintanona should present themselves before him.
Don Quixote
Were it otherwise than what I am going to say, I should not be backward to disclose it, as it is apparent I have done in other cases in this account; but I affirm, that through all this conversation, abating the freedom of coming into the chamber when I or he was in
bed, and abating the necessary offices of attending him night and day when he was sick, there had not passed the least immodest word or action between us.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
And what of the maker of the
bed? Were you not saying that he too makes, not the idea which, according to our view, is the essence of the
bed, but only a particular
bed?
Republic
But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes, and going to
bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
Moby Dick I LXVII
Tod's
bed. Nothing could be seen of the young family.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
Now, however, that you have convinced me by showing that you know all about our
bed (which no human being has ever seen but you and I and a single maidservant, the daughter of Actor, who was given me by my father on my marriage, and who keeps the doors of our room) hard of belief though I have been I can mistrust no longer."
Odyssey
While the talk at the dinner-table flowed easily onward, the evening-time advanced to night--and it became necessary to think of sending the children to
bed.
The Haunted Hotel
This serious question troubled her all through the evening, and kept her awake when she went to
bed. In despair of her capacity to remove the obstacle that stood in her way, she decided on resuming her regular work at the Museum--turned her pillow to get at the cool side of it--and made up her mind to go asleep.
I Say No
Well, with break of day she wakes and sits up in
bed and is standing in the middle of the room.
Margaret Ogilvy
His entrance awoke his wife, who was in
bed and fast asleep when he came in.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
He wished to sleep, but he knew he would not be able to and that most depressing thoughts came to him in
bed. So he called Tikhon and went through the rooms with him to show him where to set up the
bed for that night.
War and Peace