bedfast
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His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner.
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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.
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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.
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He first tried it three years ago on a young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees.
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Why should not the case of poor bedfast wretches in cap and gown, and pale faces, meet with as much consideration as that of your clodpole in scarlet and an 'Albert hat?'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
