This does not in any sense mean that an author must truckle to his audience.
The Jacobin, who was always seated on his truckle bed, with his elbows resting upon his knees, looked at him gravely, without listening to him.
Truckle beds were found for pages and squires, and straw was laid down for the yeomen, who were accustomed to lie across the doors of their masters' rooms.
The gentleman knows we do not seek to make her truckle at our feet; we wish her no injury; we ask of her no boon whatever; we only entreat her to let us alone; to abstain from wanton, unprovoked acts of oppression.
No, sir, I never will consent to rush into the polluted, detestable, distempered embraces of the whore of England, nor truckle at the footstool of the Gallic Emperor.
The quaint word is the same as used in truckle or trundle bed.
On Shrove Monday Wiltshire kids went from door to door singing for a handout: Pray, dame, something, An apple or a dumpling, Or a piece of Truckle cheese Of your own making.
He had a masculine love of independence; he could work with mind and muscle strained to their utmost; he could idle like an Oriental; but he rose at dawn, slept on a truckle bed, ate plain fare like an ascetic.
He enjoyed himself to the full, coming home for vacations with a light heart, accepting the truckle bed in the mill-house and the homely fare with as lively a humour as he did the varied life of Oxford.
Nor is it always wise to truckle to sensibilities that may be foolish; blunt truthfulness, even if unpalatable, is often in the end the best service.
Put him in the truckle bed, Mother, mother, Put him in the truckle bed, Gentle sweet mother o' mine.
I had seated myself on the edge of the truckle bed and the sudden attention given by this person to one of my works made my heart beat faster with a feeling of apprehension that was difficult to define.
With this pleasant thought in mind, sitting on mytruckle bed opposite the window, I gave myself up to a thousand philosophical reflexions of varying degrees of cheerfulness.
I hope Pollock won't be squeamish, or truckle to the hysterical party at home.
After he has done his function, he'll get as drunk as a fiddler, and sleep on one of the truckle beds.
The truckle beds in the antechamber are somewhat small, but will serve two of the knaves well enough.
A few minutes after this, Chartley's dark reveries were interrupted by two men bringing in a truckle bed, for there had been none in the room before.
Often during the night, as Harry lay on Widow Tuttle's spare truckle bed, he repented him of his resolution to start off immediately to sea.
We stripped a plank from one of the truckle beds and placed it across the opening, one end of the rope being knotted about its middle; the knots were firm, you may be sure, as none but sailors can make them.
There were five truckle beds ranged against the wall; 'twas clear that each of us would have a bedfellow.
Oxon, a Scholar slept in a trucklebed below each Fellow.
Compare Hall's description of an obsequious tutor: "He lieth in a truckle bed While his young master lieth o'er his head.
His discretion, like the truckleof His repentance, like the carriage a pulley.
The sight that here presented itself to them, as they approached the small truckle bed, and folded down the top of the only blanket that covered the body of a female, was of the most wretched and pitiful character.
I will risk it," I said, and without another word dashed into the tiny bed chamber and tore an old brown blanket from off the narrow truckle bed.
I cried, dismayed, rushing into the little room, where I found the truckle couch empty, and the door leading outside wide open.
Our bishops in England truckle to Rome--and, Rome itself is employing every possible means to tamper with the integrity of the British constitution.
And having turned on her own family and her own class, she seeks to truckle to the People under pretence of serving them, while all the time her sole object is to secure notoriety for herself!
He's naturally a generous and right-minded creature, but life has taught him to truckle and trick, like the rest of us.
But I suppose that in a real exigency, I could truckle to the proprietary Dryfooses as well as you.
And scarce was I awake, when sudden the truckle bed was gone with a loud clang all but the feet, and the floor yawned, and I heard my psaltery fall and break to atoms deep, deep below the very floor of the mill.
He took me to the very top of the mill, and there was a room with a heap of straw in one corner, and many empty barrels, and by the wall a truckle bed.
We are no niggards of our rewards and honors--we have no hireling votes to truckle to--we know our friends!
Anyhow, I've felt that rather than truckle with that fellow Horsfield I'd like to pitch him down the stairs.
