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Definition of Bedsheets
1. bedsheet [n] - See also: bedsheet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedsheets
Literary usage of Bedsheets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"Their nakedness shocked no one in a place which seems on the map to be stumbling
over the equator—where windows and bedsheets are unknown. ..."
2. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Vernon Lee (1908)
"... on stages of planks and bedsheets the stories of saints and paladins ;—nay,
even the very courts themselves, when not hampered by learned advisers, ..."
3. Ireland by Martin Gostelow (2003)
"From the luxury of pure linen bedsheets to a souvenir tea-towel printed with an
Irish motif, the choice is wide. Some Irish foods are packed ready to travel ..."
4. A General introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (1920)
"When he discovers traces of blood on the bedsheets or on the clothing of his
mother, he considers them the proof of an injury inflicted by the father. ..."
5. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815 by Claude-François Méneval, Robert Harborough Sherard (1894)
"She added that if they were prevented from meeting, Marie Louise ought to tie
her bedsheets to her window and escape under disguise. ..."
6. Austria-Hungary: The Polyglot Empire by Wolf van Schierbrand (1917)
"... sacks and vessels, even in aprons and bedsheets, and emptied them there,
weighting this earth down against the blustering wind with stones. ..."
7. Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina by Huguenot Society of South Carolina (1918)
"... blacksmiths, calkers; the moss of the forest was used for calking; bark of
pine trees supplied tar; shirts and bedsheets became sails! ..."
8. In a Time of Torture: The Assault on Justice in Egypt's Crackdown on by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Human Rights Watch (2004)
"... sitting and standing around normally when they came in, they made some of us
strip and made them go downstairs draped in bedsheets. I refused. ..."
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