One pillow-case had been relieved by some means of its contents, and hung from the top of the bedpost like a flag of truce, as though the enemy wished to stay all hostile proceedings.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
"The hull on 'em, boy, girl, and all, is called Warner now-one Rose, and t'other Henry," answered the peddler, perfectly delighted with the interest manifested by his auditor, who, grasping at the bedpost and moving her hand rapidly before her eyes, as if to clear away a mist which had settled there, continued, "I remember now, Hester told me of the children; but one, she said, was a stepchild-that was the boy, wasn't it?"
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes
And the big white cat got down off the big white bed and rubbed himself against the bedpost, and went round and round the bed-post, and rubbed himself round and round the bed-post.
"Somebody's Little Girl"
Martha Young