He was sitting on the edge of the bed, bending to remove a sock.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

There was no trail that the young man could see, but they were working up and around the face of the mountain and now they crossed a small stream and the old man went steadily on ahead up the edge of the rocky stream bed.

NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero

For a moment she simply sat on the edge of the bed, gathering together the strange place, the unfamiliar sound, and the drugged fog in which she was trying to operate.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

Faced with the edge of a cliff, according to media accounts, they would prefer jumping off with a homemade parachute made of bed sheets to finding another way safely down.

FORBES: Want To Succeed? Fail More, The Experts Say