Finally, on the north side of the room, with its head against the wall, stood the pride of the chamber-a four-post, mahogany bedstead with white, dimity curtains, and with a full, high, feather bed and bolsters and pillows heaped up, and covered-the bed with a homemade, blue-and-white counterpane, and the bolster and pillows by cases of homespun white linen.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Great hams hung from the rafters like giant bats, wrapped in grey muslin; sausages, too, like brown polished bolsters; and on straw there lay, even now in April, piles of winter apples, golden pippins, and other rare kinds.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
Little Susan, the youngest, helped as well as she could by making the little bolsters and mattresses for the dolls' bedsteads, which were to form the toys of luckier and younger children.
"Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves"
Frances Freeling Broderip