He was lying on his truckle bed below ground, hoping, perhaps, to be asleep when death should come to him out of the tornado of fire which had swept over him for days.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The latter was lying upon a low bed-the true truckle of the peasant's cottage-a stout structure of beechen timber, with short legs raising it about a foot from the floor.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
The party entered, and, in an instant, were in the middle of the cottage, which was in two divisions-one end being occupied by a small truckle bed, on which a human body lay extended; and the other which Carey remarked was under the small garret where he had observed the nocturnal rites, presented nothing but a few broken stools; some straw in one corner, over which a dirty sheet and a blanket were spread; a fire, with about as much live coal in it as a hand might hold, as well for quantity as activity of heat; a small cupboard, with a padlock on it of twice the value of the articles it guarded, presenting some bones that had once, and while another's property, been covered with roasted meat, and seemed by their whiteness to have been four or five times boiled, with the remnant of the fuisted meal purchased from Mrs Monilaws.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton