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Shackled to the bedposts with no chance of rescue, Jessie has to figure out how to survive.
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Danny Horn, James Mercadante, Ilana Gordon, EW.com, 31 July 2024
The types of weapons featured in the scene ratchet up with each reveal, from a knife to an entire bedpost Ron pulls out of his blazer to various medieval torture tools.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
On the fateful morning, let the housemaid, on entering each visitor’s room, carefully replace the empty stocking dangling on the bedpost with the bulging, worsted one.
—Nancy Mitford, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
The results dashed Youngkin’s dream of hanging his red fleece vest on a White House bedpost after next year’s presidential election.
—Robert McCartney, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
Prosecutors objected to any early release from prison, noting that McFadden had tied a 17-year-old’s hands and feet to bedposts, cut her shirt off and raped her at knifepoint.
—Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
He was raised working-class in Salford, near Manchester, and first heard hints of the stateside musical revolution by pressing his ear to his bedpost on Sunday nights.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 10 May 2023
Deft movements and practiced flourishes turn a block of spinning wood into a bedpost, top, bowl or some other circular object, each motion peeling away curls of wood to uncover the beauty hidden inside.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
The girl was able to tell investigators that she was bound to a bedpost for nearly a week and given alcohol to keep her in a drugged state.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2022
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Danny Horn, James Mercadante, Ilana Gordon, EW.com, 31 July 2024
The types of weapons featured in the scene ratchet up with each reveal, from a knife to an entire bedpost Ron pulls out of his blazer to various medieval torture tools.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
On the fateful morning, let the housemaid, on entering each visitor’s room, carefully replace the empty stocking dangling on the bedpost with the bulging, worsted one.
—Nancy Mitford, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
The results dashed Youngkin’s dream of hanging his red fleece vest on a White House bedpost after next year’s presidential election.
—Robert McCartney, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
Prosecutors objected to any early release from prison, noting that McFadden had tied a 17-year-old’s hands and feet to bedposts, cut her shirt off and raped her at knifepoint.
—Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
He was raised working-class in Salford, near Manchester, and first heard hints of the stateside musical revolution by pressing his ear to his bedpost on Sunday nights.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 10 May 2023
Deft movements and practiced flourishes turn a block of spinning wood into a bedpost, top, bowl or some other circular object, each motion peeling away curls of wood to uncover the beauty hidden inside.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
The girl was able to tell investigators that she was bound to a bedpost for nearly a week and given alcohol to keep her in a drugged state.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2022
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“Bedpost.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedpost. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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