I was startled a while ago upon walking over to the nearest group to discover eighty dollars, in ones, fives, and tens on the top of the army cot that served as a table in a single jack pot, and they were still betting.
Illustration: The Top Sergeant made the round of the cots] The door opened and a pocket flashlight began to travel from cot to cot.
The cot next to Fat and two below me has been vacant ever since we have been here.
After he had gone broke he left the game and sat thoughtfully on the edge of his cot for a while.
The man lying on the cot in the shelter of the cabin companionway made no sound all the while.
Once he stopped squarely at the foot of the cot and stood staring down at the figure there, faintly outlined, motionless and mute.
I looked at the cot in which I was to sleep and suspected, not without good reasons, that I should not be the first to use the sheets and pillow-case since they had last come from the wash.
He was under the big van fixing up his cot for the night, that would soon be turning everything dark.
An extra cot had been brought along for him, but it was folded up in the automobile.
The cot is springy and most comfortable to sleep in.
It was of stout, heavy boards about long enough to allow a cotbeing set up in it.
He was lying across his immovable cot fingering the boards low down in the right rear corner when he felt something give beneath his thumb.
At the foot of the cot was a plain wooden armchair, both pieces of furniture being screwed to the floor.
They set the cot close up against the side of his bed with the rail down so that Ranny's arms might reach out to Baby where he lay.
He had to stand by and see Winky stoop over Baby's cot (it was her right) for the last look.
Presently they could be heard moving Stanny's little cot into his grandmother's room.
Most of all it pained her to see Dossie's little cot drawn up beside Ranny's bed in the back room; they looked so forlorn, the two of them; so outcast and so abandoned.
Sybil, in a startled tone, as she turned her eyes upon a ghastly and blood-stained form, sitting bolt upright on the cot bedstead, and staring in a death panic at her.
The cot bed was made up in the corner of the room, and the wounded man was tenderly raised by the two laborers, and laid upon it.
Inclosed find one dollar for the Young People's Cot from Alma L.
My childhood, youth, and manood too, My Father's cot recâll Thic Rookery.
Yet that Sheila Kelly, on her cot across the room, slept heavily on and heard nothing.
As if in answer to the wild aspiration, a key suddenly clicked in the lock outside, and she sprang upright on the cot with a strangling gasp of fear and hope commingled.
Without thy smile the monarch's lot To me were dark and lone, While, with it, even the humblest cot Were brighter than his throne.
As the nurse passed from Mat's cot to the wheel-chair, eleven pairs of eyes and an odd one followed her.
As the chief and Sheila passed on from cot to cot, the spirits of Ward 7-A never wavered.
As she sat down on the edge of the cot she thanked her particular star for a speaking knowledge of French.
An' the queer thing is they never stopped by Larry's cot or Casey Ryan's--the heathen!
Sheila was appointed custodian, and the boots were placed beside the color-sergeant's cot "against the comin' night.
But each has got an iron cot in it, and I’m bound to keel over right soon if I don’t find rest somewhere.
So he had better go back to his cot and try to finish his sleep, for he was in great need of further rest.
Kenneth could almost imagine he saw the smoke curling up from his mother's cot in the glen, and Kooran feathering away through the heather to fetch his dinner.
The inside of that cot was dreary in the extreme, but Kenneth soon made it more cheerful.
A day or two after this the three friends went together over the hills to pay a visit to the fisherman's cot by the beach.
The morn was fair, the sky was clear, No breath came o'er the sea, When Mary left her Highland cot And wandered forth with me.
I think you have," insisted Gordon, and now he came to thecot and began to remove Barry's bandages.
For a long moment the big Hollander regarded the sleeping skipper, then moved over to Little's cotand repeated the scrutiny.
Mrs. Goring watched from a dark corner, and when the girl moved away from Barry's cot and approached Little, the older woman smiled with great sympathy and went quietly out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bed; blockhouse; box; cabin; camp; cot; cottage; cradle; crib; hut; lodge; shack; shanty; snuggery
