bedstock

Example Sentences

• "There was some medical evidence in support of the view of their accidental origin, but according to Dr. Ogston there was no blood on the bedstock where the nails were represented to have been: and as the woman had died from bleeding, this was not likely to have escaped being stained with blood, if the woulds, as alleged for the defence, had really been produced by the nails."
• "Is it not often hard, and so hard that Ahitophel, a king's counsellor, who could not but have a well-made bed, could not sleep a wink in it? he leaped over the bedstock, and hanged himself , and slipped down to hell ."
• "Each rail of the bedstock is attached by a mortise-and-tenon joint to the headboard. It is somewhat unusual that the foot of the bedstock, which has its own low, freestanding footposts with turned finials, is also tenoned to the main footposts supporting the tester."
• "Were this sector to be even further penalised by additional taxation and administrative burdens, the effect would be either to (a) reduce available tourism bedstock and hence damage the UK's £74 billion tourism economy, and/or ( b ) require replacement purpose-built commercial bedstock, and thus more new building, reduced sustainability, more damage to the environment, less open land, more usage of energy and other resources, and the under-usage of existing buildings."
• "The legal requirement to link the demolition and upgrading of old bedstock as a condition for developing new accommodation is especially important ."
• "These figures imply that Malta would have 316 beds per square kilometer, in an already densely populate country,, and 100,000 beds by 2030 means that the current licensed bedstock will almost double in ten years and create bedstock equivalent to that created in the past 60 years."