recumbency
Example Sentences
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He suffered himself to be pushed into recumbency on the couch, and put his head with docility on the pillow she brought from the spare room.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
I could not help comparing the annoyance of this involuntary dance with the after-guard, this croissez with clattering buckets, and dos à dosing with wet swabs, with my comfortable and commanding recumbency upon the cross-trees.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
Give me, in robe or jacket, a hookah, or German arrangement, Chinese recumbency in matted and moistened veranda, and the odors of fresh growing beds of flowers wafted by the southern breeze.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
Some writers state that it may be produced by confining an animal in recumbency, with the casting harness.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
In attempting to assume the perpendicular, Mr. Brown Bunkem was signally frustrated, as the result was a more perfect development of his original horizontal recumbency, assumed at the conclusion of a very vigorous fall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 by Various
