1.   At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax.

2.   If the straw mattress was an inch out of line with the plank bed base, his food was reduced by one meal.

3.   Isabel bounced once against the plump straw mattress, then made a frantic bid for freedom.

4.   It was almost entirely filled by its sole piece of furniture-a straw mattress raised above the plank floor on a platform.

5.   It was an iron bed with two folded blankets on it and a thin straw mattress.

6.   Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet.

7.   Then, pocketing the money, she placed the box back underneath the straw mattress and rolled Granny on to her back again.

8.   There was a new straw mattress and brass bedsteads on which the morning sun glittered like gold.

9.   The bedrooms generally hold a single straw mattress resting on a wooden frame fitted with rope webbing.

10.   The king was buried on a straw mattress, flanked by spears, and under a canopy of beams covered with reed thatching.