He sank down upon the charpoy, a prey to the most realistic horrors that could be conjured up by a dull imagination. |
Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter. |
During the fast they brought a man to me one evening on a charpoy. |
There was a possibility that he might then raise himself above the charpoy and be seen. |
And with a creaking of its rickety string-bound frame, Sarju rises from the adjacent charpoy, steps between a dozen curled-up canine forms, and begins his working-day. It starts early because he has two jobs. |
But writhe as he liked, his darting glances always painfully returned to the still victim on the charpoy. |