Then, some time before sunrise, the rattle of milk-carts remind me of Mrs. Milliken's bedspring and mattress, and I go to bed.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
A plong of the bedspring.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
For the upbuilding of the home, for the continuance of the home, men of this calling also it was who conceived and shaped, among other things, the cook-stove, the chimney, the wheel, the steam-engine, the spinning-jenny, the suspension-bridge, the bedspring-oh, boy!
"Opportunities in Engineering"
Charles M. Horton