A book lay on a table beside the bed.
Another book lay on the chair beside the bed.
Fingers bent like claws, the dead woman lay on the floor beside the bed.
He carried the platter into her room and laid it beside the bed.
The bit of silver jewelry lay on the table beside the bed.
She looked at the empty container, then laid it on the table beside the bed.
She told him of Diego and how he lay dead beside the bed.
He rose now and picked up the black staff from where it lay beside the bed.
The lad's clothes lay across a chair beside the bed.
The abandoned sock lay beside the bed, just where he'd left it.