On the frontlines of civic life, tending sickbeds and delivering babies, women have alliances and access that men don't. ❋ Abigail E. Disney (2011)
Just today 2 people at work told me stories of our employer-sponserd plan, for which we pay huge premiums and ever-increasing deductibles and copays, and my colleagues still have to fight the insurance company from their sickbeds following emergency surgery. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Again, in the eighteenth-century, my favorite period in English Literature, (at the dawn of the modern era -- but before Louis Pasteur), accoucheurs (the precursors of obstetricians) killed many women with the microbes they unknowingly carried from the sickbeds of other patients. ❋ Unknown (2008)
No human at the time knew why little Sickle Eve could work and play and live while other children were dying or languishing in sickbeds. ❋ Michael J. Behe (2007)
I had seen wives weep themselves into a stupor over the sickbeds of abusive husbands, and children cry hysterically at the funerals of fathers who had torn stripes in their thighs and buttocks with a belt. ❋ John Connolly (2007)
Nearly everyone in the village -- women, children of both sexes as young as 2 years old, even the elderly and the invalids who were too weak to get out of their sickbeds -- fell victim to the Gillette. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Well, now the Bush people are ordering soldiers out of their sickbeds to Iraq --. soldiers who already served multiple “tours” in many cases. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon, and believe it at my young age; and a little bit of trouble or even Dean's eventual rejection of me as a buddy, putting me down, as he would later, on starving sidewalks and sickbeds — what did it matter? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Likewise, if Robert DeNiro, Edie Falco, Lynn Redgrave, Suzanne Sommers, Jaclyn Smith, Rue McClanahan and a host of others had given up and taken to their sickbeds, we would have been deprived of many hours of entertainment. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In sickbeds all over the city, the people of Govinna were dying, their bodies ravaged by the Longosai. ❋ Pierson, Chris (2001)
He visited sickbeds and stayed to write letters for the patients. ❋ Arensberg, Ann, 1937- (1999)
He had hoped to take her away from all the sickbeds for a drive in the country where he would ask her to marry him, ask her properly as she deserved. ❋ Seymour, Ana (1996)
Empty containers traveled back to be refilled along the other line, passing through the hands of grandparents, children, young women, even some ailing residents who, Tate real-ized, must have left their sickbeds to take a place in line. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (1993)
The trestle tables and even some of the benches had been converted to sickbeds, with a few set aside to hold the rudimentary equipment of those who tried to heal the sick, or at least attempted to bring some comfort to their dying. ❋ ESTHER FRIESNER (1990)
The meeting was heavily attended; of the 300 living senators, over 280 had come to this session of the House, winkled out of their homes and even their sickbeds by Scaurus and the other leaders. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
Some facilities had grown dilapidated, and wounded men, who surely deserved the best of all possible care, shared their sickbeds with rodents. ❋ Unknown (1978)
