The building contained single cells for 300 patients, each with small windows set high in the wall, no heating, and loose straw on wooden bedsteads.

In a small room opening off the kitchen was an old- fashioned wooden bedstead with a rope mattress.

He leaned his head against the wooden bedstead, feeling that his heart was bursting.

It has 60 rooms, with wooden bedsteads, checked quilts and comfortable chairs, creating a pleasing Western ambience.

The head of the funny little old wooden bedstead was just against the rattling window.

There are goldfish in a concrete pond and ivy growing up the headboard of an old wooden bedstead.

His hand fell on a nightstand that had been pushed against the narrow wooden bedstead in which he lay.

Iron beds appear in the 18th century; the advertisements recommend them as free from the insects which sometimes infested wooden bedsteads.

He hauled out a white wooden bedstead with a bookcase built into it.

A sturdy wooden bedstead with a thick straw pallet on it stood against the left-hand wall.