I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

He had always known how to find a bed, and on his own terms.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young female -- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling -- she came back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute.

The doctors had suggested Scotty remain most of every afternoon in bed until he was stronger.

He had not even thought about her much except once or twice at night in bed when his slowly ranging thoughts would abruptly, almost accidentally, encounter her.

The bed still showed signs of where Kitti had lain.

Gilborn wondered whether Kitti had lain in that same bed with Who??

And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.

I got her into bed, and sat with her until she had sobbed herself out.

His luck had failed him, and it was easier to crawl off into bed than to get out and fight the world.

Nadine's constant nagging had finally gotten Wally out of bed.

When the solution finally came to him, one night while he was in bed, he was so shaken by its simplicity that he could only wonder why it had not occurred to him before.

In the night in which Pelopia had shared the bed of her father, she had taken from him his sword which she afterwards gave to Aegisthus.

Coughing sometimes confined him to bed and he had a history of bringing up blood and mucus.

" Thomas told her he had had a terrible week, had missed her terribly and wanted to go to bed with her.

Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed.

People who are having trouble sleeping or cannot get comfortable in bed appear to experience the sensation more often throughout the night.

Ivanova has trouble sleeping on the inclined Minbari beds and decides to rip the pillows off of all of them and create a makeshift bed on the floor.

After lying about his age, he joined the army in 1950, since it was “ the only place that would give me a job and a bed ,” he subsequently explained, and would occasionally get into trouble for drawing while he was supposed to be keeping watch during guard duty.

Originally filmed in 1960, and shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over a period of 14 days, it is the story of a star high school athlete who falls deeper and deeper into trouble after being caught in bed with his girlfriend.

* Many Dutch speakers have trouble distinguishing between bat, bad, bet and bed.

The great French player André Danican Philidor demonstrated his ability to play up to three blindfold games simultaneously in 1783 with great success, with newspapers highlighting his achievement, having taught himself to visualize the board while in bed at night when he had trouble sleeping.

As Rucker lies sick in bed, Will overhears him tell Miss Love that God provides strength and comfort to the faithful in times of trouble.

Billy goes to bed but has trouble sleeping.

A ventroliquist and his dummy cause trouble for Jen and Dana at the bed and breakfast.

Nell escorts the child to bed, then accuses Bunny of spying on her and implies that something might happen to her favorite toy if she makes any more trouble.

She causes trouble for Dawn when she flirts with Scott, gets him drunk and drags him into her bed, secretly phoning Dawn and she hears them talking.

He preferred sleeping in bed with his head on a pillow.

In a letter White wrote in response to inquiries from readers, ".. many years ago I went to bed one night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I dreamed about a tiny boy who acted rather like a mouse.

Link also makes a brief appearance in Super Mario RPG where he appears sleeping in an inn, remaining asleep in a bed throughout the game.

* Infant bed, for sleeping babies

# Mathilda and Léon sleeping next to each other in a bed.

On his arrival in Jamaica, Bond soon realises that he is being watched, as his hotel room is searched, a basket of poisoned fruit is delivered to his hotel room ( supposedly a gift from the colonial governor ) and a deadly centipede is placed in his bed while he is sleeping.

Robert spent the night before sporting with harlots and jesters and while he lay in bed sleeping off his drunkenness his unworthy friends stole his clothes.

Athole and I took turns sleeping with mother in the bed, but sleep was impossible anyway — the elevated trains rattled right past our window every few minutes.

Pinky is sleeping in the bed with the horse ; the woman is in the twin bed next to them.

* Bed or sleeping bag, as in the phrase ' hitting the sack ' ( going to bed )

The bed was fixed to the trap door and the mattress securely attached to the bedstead, so that when two retaining iron pins were removed from below in the small hours of the morning, the sleeping guest was neatly decanted into a boiling cauldron.

An individual dragon's ' weyr ' ( distinct from the complex, denoted by the use of a lowercase ) consists of a ledge for landing and sunning, a cavern with a " couch ", or raised stone bed ( covered with straw or other bedding ) for the dragon and sleeping and storage areas for the rider.

In the absence of a third bed, Ste has to make do with sleeping ' top-to-toe ' with Jamie.

On the second night they share a bed: after a massage and a minor conversation, the boys soon change sleeping arrangements and Jamie kisses Ste for the first time.

Allworthy returns from London after an extended business trip and finds a baby sleeping in his bed.

The final panel of Berke Breathed's comic strip Opus showed Opus sleeping in a bed pictured in the children's book " Goodnight Moon ".

Raising the head of the bed or sleeping with a wedge pillow promotes emptying of the esophagus by gravity.

One story, mentioned in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), has a Sybarite sleeping on a bed of rose petals, but unable to get to sleep because one of the petals was folded over.

He passes the sleeping castle folk and comes across the chamber where the princess lies asleep on the bed.

: Relief is often found by raising the head of the bed to 30 degrees, raising the upper body with pillows, or sleeping sitting up.

As the days pass, more tapes arrive, showing the interior of their house and even shots of them in bed sleeping.

The phrase also appears in series 4, episode 5 of Men Behaving Badly, when a drunken Gary climbs into bed intent on having sex with the sleeping Dorothy ; it is revealed that she is wearing a T-shirt with " Don't even think about it!

He shines her shoes before he leaves her sleeping on the bed.