As he spoke, he took from his coat pocket on the bedpost an envelope containing his commission and other papers.
I dream about it nights and wake up with my arms around the bedpost.
My head struck the bedposts, and other furniture.
The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost.
The twisted columns used in chairs, bedposts, etc., were borrowed from Italy and were very popular.
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There used to be a song about sticking chewing-gum on thebedpostat the end of the day.
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A hole is typically drilled through thebedpost.
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A mortise or slot is cut vertically in thebedpost.
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Scrooge awakes in his own bed, clinging to thebedpost.
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He says a nurse swung him around when he was a young boy, and he bumped his head against abedpost.
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It was known as well, that he often chained her to abedpostwhen he was away from home.
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Instead of pins inserted horizontally into thebedpost, an eye plate (post plate) is installed on thebedpost.
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Equally, how could a man who was 1.6m high possibly hang himself from abedpostthat was 1.4m high?
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He had fallen getting out of bed to use the bathroom, hitting hisbedpost, breaking a rib and sustaining other internal injuries.
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The bedposts had large spheres of gilded copper and projecting iron bars, each supporting a tripartite candle.
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She adds that he was good-looking in an oily sort of way, but dropped his girlfriends once he'd got another notch on hisbedpost.
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Secondly, the roof opens up and thirdly, the aerial rises out of one of the bedposts.
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Depending on the hardware, thebedpostmay require a mortise in order to allow the hooks to fasten to the plate.
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From thebedposthangs a brush, symbolic of domestic duties.
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Darter had been tied to abedpostat the foot of his bed by a belt that was wrapped around his neck.
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