recumbency

Example Sentences

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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 Billings, E. R.

Mr Blenkiron, having finished his after-dinner recumbency, had sat up and pulled a small table towards him.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John

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 Frederic, Harold

As to enforced recumbency I doubt the propriety of insisting on it in the majority of cases, for I think the patient usually assumes whatever position gives most comfort.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

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