Bedsteads were carved and draped with rich hangings.
Bedsteads were not usual, except for kings, queens, and great ladies; tapestry covered the walls, and the floors were generally sanded.
In Chippendale's chairs and console tables, in his state bedsteads and his lamp-stands, one can recognise the broken scrolls and curved lines, so familiar in the bronze mountings of Caffieri.
What indeed was thy motive for showing, O great ascetic, so many palatial mansions made of gold and so many bedsteads supported on posts of jewels, and gems?
And there were diverse kinds of excellent seats and costly beds, and bedsteads made of gold and gems and overlaid with cloths and carpets of great beauty and value.
A certain number of bedsteads were provided, and there was a slight increase in the ration of bread.
The state side contained twelve good-sized rooms, from twenty-one by eighteen feet to fifteen feet square, which were furnished with bedsteads and bedding.
In one prison the bedsteads had been removed lest the prisoners should break them up and convert them into weapons of offence.
If any bedsteads were made here, they were undoubtedly simple and unpretentious, along the lines of the settle and board tables.
Our oldest beds belong to this period, unless we consider Presse bedsteads or Cupboard bedsteads, already spoken of, as real beds.
The few bedsteads were taken to pieces and tied up, the stretchers put together and the blankets tied up in bundles.
The sanitars collected all the bedding in the yard to be burnt, the bedsteads were piled high on one another, and we opened all the windows wide to let the clean cold wind blow over everything.
We carried with us a large number of iron bedsteadscomplete with mattresses, blankets, and sheets.
It is needless to say that they proved an inexpressible boon, and even when the Hospital had to trust only to ox transport, all the bedsteads went with it.
In its hollow interior there was room for bed dressings and table napery, even when the high-posted bedsteads and tables which they had adorned were abandoned, or exchanged for peace of mind and liberty of action.
I enquired why the sick were not provided with iron bedsteads in place of the wooden ones they occupied?
The bedsteads are of wood; upon inquiring why they were not of iron, they replied, they were afraid to use them, on account of the heavy thunder-storms which frequently occur.
It is a good regulation that the bedsteads are iron, and that every man lies alone; but it is very bad on the other hand, that they cook in the same room.
Each ward contains sixteen bedsteads, all of iron; the bedsteadsfor the officers are of wood, and furnished with curtains.
The Pasha remonstrated with Casati for taking all his grinding-stones, earthen jars, bedsteads for his boys and women, &c.
Some of us still preserve, as heirlooms, old tables and bedsteads of Cromwellian times: in the twenty-first century what will have become of our machine-made bedsteads and tables?
Mother took the feather ticks off the two bedsteads and bundled them up to take to America.
With the feather ticks went also the money mother had got from selling the bedsteads and other furniture.
Again and again; four times in all; and from the bedsteads a dozen men have risen up already.
More tinkling of sluiced water-pots; faint jarring of wooden bedsteads moved into or out of the shadows; uncouth music of stringed instruments softened by distance into a plaintive wail, and one low grumble of far-off thunder.
It is also mentioned that "in the manufacture of metallic bedsteads he has earned a deservedly high reputation.
One of these "turn-up" bedsteads which was used in the Sheldon homestead until this century may be seen in Deerfield Memorial Hall.
Netted fringes for edging the coverlets, curtains, testers, and valances of high-post bedsteads were usually made of cotton thread or twine, and when tufted or tasselled were a pretty finish.
A few words upon bedsteads and bedding; and principally as regards patients who are entirely, or almost entirely, confined to bed.
To all appearances the living-room was not much changed by reason of the auction, for in there the seats and cupboards and bedsteads were stationary.
There were iron bedsteads and clean mattresses, and, having suffered so terribly as we had done, it seemed very bad luck that we could not enjoy more than three hours' rest in such delightful quarters.
The bedsteads were soon carried to their sleeping chamber and set up--the matresses laid on them, and the nimble fingers of our heroine soon covered them with their snowy linen.
The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor.
The lady's piano, drawing-materials, books, and other such evidences of refinement are as much a part of the rough place as the iron bedsteads of the little patients.
And white-armed Arete bade her handmaids set out bedsteads beneath the gallery, and cast fair purple blankets over them, and spread coverlets above, and thereon lay thick mantles to be a clothing over all.
So spake he, and Argive Helen bade her handmaids set out bedsteads beneath the gallery, and fling on them fair purple blankets and spread coverlets above, and thereon lay thick mantles to be a clothing over all.
The bed, bedding and bedsteads in use by him and his family.
These upholstered, tufted, satin-covered bedsteads should be fitted with a canopy, and from this should hang a baldachin and side curtains.
Travellers in Brittany find the most wonderful carved bedsteads built into the wall, and are always buying them of the astonished fisher-folk, who have no idea how valuable is their smoke-stained, carved oak.
Forty bedsteads and beds complete we found in that district, until the bare white-washed walls of the jail were transformed.
And back in triumph we bore bedsteads and soft mattresses that heavy German bodies so lately had impressed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bedsteads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
