husk-bed

Updated: May 9, 2025

Carpetless, dreary barracks the rooms usually are, with an uncompromising squareness of prints upon the wall, an appalling breadth of husk-bed, a niggardness of wash-bowl, and an obduracy of sofa, never, never to be dissociated in their victim's mind from the idea of the villanous hard bread of Venice on which the gloomy landlady sustains her life with its immutable purposes of plunder.

William Dean Howells - Venetian Life

I had fell asleep, leaning against the wall, and didn't know she was agoing. The baby was left behind on the husk-bed. "The next thing, my sister wandered back to the lonesome place, where she and her baby had lived together, and without telling any one that she was sick, lay down and died.

Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens - Mabel's Mistake