Re: Taking a bed there

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:35:38 -0500, Marius Hancu <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello:

Could
"taking a bed there"
mean
"staying overnight there?"

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Mr. Rushworth then began to propose Mr. Crawford?s doing him the honour
of coming over to Sotherton, and taking a bed there; when Mrs. Norris,
as if reading in her two nieces? minds their little approbation of a
plan which was to take Mr. Crawford away, interposed with an amendment.

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, p. 75
http://www.pemberley.com/etext/MP/chapter6.htm
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Yes.

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Katy Jennison

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  • Taking a bed there
    ... "staying overnight there?" ... Mr. Rushworth then began to propose Mr. Crawford’s doing him the honour of coming over to Sotherton, and taking a bed there; when Mrs. Norris, as if reading in her two nieces’ minds their little approbation of a plan which was to take Mr. Crawford away, interposed with an amendment. ...
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  • Re: Taking a bed there
    ... Marius Hancu wrote: ... "staying overnight there?" ... Mr. Rushworth then began to propose Mr. Crawford’s doing him the ... honour of coming over to Sotherton, and taking a bed there; ...
    (alt.usage.english)