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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary
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pallet bed
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tags: [garniture]
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Definition:A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---The mattress is nine feet by seven, made of loose straw, for the most part; but with a sort of framework on all four sides, made of bundles (wisps) of straw to keep the sides firm and the great mass of straw in its place; and the whole is to be kept level.Edith Rickert. The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young (1908)
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she would turn into the room with her sisters and sleep on a cot; and up garret was a little cubby, with a pallet in it. The king said the cubby would do for his valley—meaning me.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
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Once he had accidentally touched her, turning on the pallet they slept on, and she had stiffened.
Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove (1985)
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oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of queens. To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick (1851)
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Reynolds Stanley by this time is over on Henrietta pallet look like trying to rape her foot. Finally he start to chew her leg and Henrietta reach up on the windowsill and hand him a cracker.
Alice Walker. The Color Purple (1982)
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