bedfast
Example Sentences
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After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew a sick girl, who, bedfast for years, used to amuse herself with what her windows and an opera-glass commanded in the way of sky and foliage.
From Doctor and Patient by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
