Bedfast

When the visitors stopped coming, Mamaw fell into depression, went bedfast. ❋ Sheldon Lee Compton (2012)

Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year. ❋ Lynn Anderson (2007)

And her father and mother, sister died with tuberculosis, set it on me and I was bedfast five months. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And one of the greatest men I ever met in my life was a fellow named Colonel Phil Hart, who later became a United States senator from the state of Michigan, who ran errands for all of us who were bedfast; who provided baseball tickets -- Detroit Tigers -- the Briggs family owned the Detroit Tigers then; his wife was a Briggs. ❋ ITY National Archives (2000)

For years, Elizabeth Barrett had been an invalid, bedfast in her room. ❋ DR. DENNIS SWANBERG (1999)

"MAKE SURE he stays bedfast for a while," Dr. Goodfellow told them at the door. ❋ Stewardson, Dawn (1991)

The style here is more emotive than Swift's, but in his deadpan explanatory notes ( "This is a rural English custom designed to eliminate aged and bedfast dependents") there is a Swiftian factuality. ❋ McCarthy, Mary (1963)

Grandmother Krausa, although bedfast, occasionally insisted on being carried on inspection tours; somebody always suffered. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1957)

The Blind, Crooked, Bedrels [bedfast], Widows, Orphans, and all other Poor, so visited by the hand of God as they may not work, ❋ A. Taylor Innes (N/A)

Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)

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. ❋ Mary Cole (N/A)

Mind you, in these casual observations as compiled by me while bedfast and here given utterance, I am not seeking to disparage possibly the noblest of professions. ❋ Unknown (1910)

So there he was, bedfast for about three months; but, of course, he begun to enjoy his accident long before that -- almost as soon as he come to, in fact. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

"Only thing I hope for now -- before I get bedfast or something -- say, take a look at the space between them south wings -- stand over this way a mite." ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

Mother's health, which was always poor, had gone almost completely away; she became almost bedfast for the remainder of her life and to add to our troubles, father, while assisting a neighbor to raise a house, had the misfortune to have his leg broken below the knee. ❋ Unknown (1898)

In the spring of 1880 I was taken down with a severe attack of stomach trouble, was bedfast for three months, and not able to drive out for nearly six months. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

Therefore staying the printer from proceeding, we came to Mr. George again, and fand him bedfast by his custom, and asking him how he did, 'Ever going the way of weilfare,' says he. ❋ George Reid (1862)

July 15, 2011 11:23 AM PDT Smart mattress automatically shifts bedfast patients by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore ❋ Unknown (2011)