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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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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After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast.

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The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.

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It could easily be seen that if he continued very long in this condition, he would not only lose his mind but be bedfast and perhaps die.

From Trials and Triumphs of Faith by Cole, Mary