1.   When one of the cofferdams sprang a huge leak, it was plugged with old mattresses.

2.   An old mattress was thrown on the floor, but Meza spent the night sitting on the jail-cell bench.

3.   An old mattress lay in the unkempt grass, a few bottles strewn under the shade trees.

4.   A few are lucky enough to have old mattresses, but others sleep on dingy sofas, many without cushions.

5.   But how can counters tell if a chad is truly dimpled, or is merely saggy, like an old mattress?

6.   Furniture is sparse, and old mattresses on the floors are where he, his father, his brother and his wife and their four children sleep.

7.   He landed feet first in a sodden cement alley filled with bags and cans of garbage and an old mattress.

8.   Instead it was stuffed with old mattresses, lamps and other not-so-quaint things.

9.   Ms. LeBlanc views apartment rentals and sales as bedfellows on an old mattress.

10.   Our old mattress was so worn and pathetic that I was too embarrassed to risk our new neighbors seeing it and thinking bad things about us.