They're sitting on charpoys, beds made of wood and rope. ❋ Unknown (2010)
All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Get your men out of their bloody charpoys and on that stretch of miadan at the double! ❋ Aldiss, Brian (1978)
'The men would not budge from their charpoys, sah. ❋ Aldiss, Brian (1978)
Connie said that they had finished about one o'clock and had slept for a few hours on charpoys in the hangar; they had the engines running and the machines all ready to go when we got there, so they had probably been working again at dawn. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)
As walls were absent on one side of each house, if not on two sides, the effect was that of a number of deep verandas which disclosed sleeping charpoys in the dim background. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)
Arjan Singh paid the villagers with money left with him by Wazir Hussein to build an atap dormitory hut, a simple affair that consisted of little but a board floor raised two feet above the ground, a thatched roof, and a lot of charpoys or string beds. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)
There were two charpoys or stretchers tied one to each side of this little deck, and we determined that Imam Sharif should have one, and the 'botanist' the other. ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)
But they lay listless on their charpoys; they knew no English, and there was nothing in Desmond's tone to quicken their hopelessness. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
But he saw that the eight men, all natives, were lying on crude charpoys along the wall, each man chained to a staple like his own. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
Inside the shed, reclining on their charpoys, the men continued their performance, changing their song, though not, as it seemed to Desmond, the tune. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
We had hundreds of cases just lying on the floor or bamboo charpoys in palm huts-it was raining almost all the time. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1950)
The nine forms lay flat or curled up on their charpoys -- all was well. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
Our accommodation was in long huts that in memory appeared to be permanent; we found the charpoys quite comfortable and the bell-shaped mosquito nets that dangled from the ceiling gave us uninterrupted nights. ❋ John Cox (N/A)
However at this stage we were introduced to mainly Indian words, charpoys for rope beds, chatties for unglazed urns, pani for water, jaldi for quick and many, many more. ❋ John Cox (N/A)
Most sensible soldiers then stripped off and lay on their charpoys doing nothing for a while to cool down but there were some athletic types who decided to play soccer even though the temperatures were well above 100°F and they didn't seem to suffer from it. ❋ John Cox (N/A)
Here were a number of charpoys, or native bedsteads, very comfortable, but usually full of bugs, and on these we sat. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)
The weak point was our having only two thin quilts underneath on the charpoys. ❋ Unknown (1900)
It fell upon a night that we of the Thana slept according to custom upon our charpoys, having eaten the evening meal and drunk tobacco. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
