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Meanings of hard couch in English

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Usage of hard couch in English
1
He sprang from his hard couch, and stretched himself as he spoke.
Under the Rebel's Reign
2
Joy strews the hard couch with roses, and makes labour ease.
The Last Man
3
He ceased speaking, and his head fell heavily back on his hard couch.
Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen ...
4
The prisoner throws himself on the hard couch and sleeps.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
5
Not seeing her, I went back to my hard couch.
Lilith: A Romance
6
He sat tearless on his hard couch, desolate, kneeling-beforewhom?
The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales.
7
Otto lay upon the hard couch in his cell, covered with a shaggy bear skin.
Otto of the Silver Hand
8
He turned and turned again upon his hard couch, but found it impossible to sleep.
Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen ...
9
The sick man lay alone on a hard couch.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
10
Hardly roused from my somewhat hard couch, I felt my brain freed, my mind clear.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
11
I sat on the hard couch, staring into space.
Dead as a doornail
12
The Major said no more but tossed on the hard couch until daylight shot through the trees.
Terry / A Tale of the Hill People
13
Rubbing his eyes, Clare jumped from his hard couch, and in a moment was out of doors.
The Life of John Clare
14
At this moment he is resting on his hard couch by my side, and is sleeping-but ,alas
The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny
15
More, the entrance to it lay behind the Nun's hard couch; only a stone slab blocked the entrance.
The Brown Mask
16
There, on a hard couch of rock, skin, and blanket, lay a fevered form in rough scouting dress.
An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier
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