| 1. | There was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a basketful of linen. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Monsieur Defarge put this provender, and the lamp he carried, on the shoemaker's bench there was nothing else in the garret but a pallet bed, and he and Mr. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a rather large, dark room. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | She had wounded herself while breaking the window she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Sometimes he was delirious, and fancied he saw an old man stretched on a pallet he, also, was dying of hunger. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | By and by I heard the king and the duke come up so I rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and waited to see if anything was going to happen. - from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 8. | They found a small recess in the one nearest the base of the rock, with a pallet of blankets spread down in it also an old suspender, some bacon rind, and the well-gnawed bones of two or three fowls. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 9. | There, in the midst of all sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the pallet. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 10. | Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 12. | The only furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets all the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with spiders' webs. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |