Sickroom

But a sickroom was a sickroom, and illness had an odor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the sickroom was a different place now, when we had Allan's cheery visits to enliven our long evenings. ❋ Rosa Nouchette Carey (1874)

A long-faced nurse in a sickroom is a visible embodiment and presence of the disease against which the eager life of the patient is fighting in agony. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

We were all crowded into the little study, which I'd reluctantly surrendered as a "sickroom" when Sadd had announced his impending demise. ❋ Boylan, Eleanor (1989)

His brother was lying in a sickroom upstairs while his family waited for what they feared was inevitable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I make to bend to gather them, but I stop when I see Mother Celeste of Jesus come into the sickroom holding a lit candle, followed by the other nuns. ❋ Adriana Renescu (2012)

Without the breeze, Ali noticed for the first time the pervasive sickroom odors that the fragrant ocean air had kept at bay. ❋ J.A. Jance (2011)

Maple had retrieved the ones from the sickroom and offered Max her .454. ❋ Diana Pharaoh Francis (2011)

Yet, whereever the doctor may be in his fantasy, he is physically in the sickroom, confronting a parient and a wound. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Blake obeyed, relief at being cast out of the sickroom evident in his rapid withdrawal. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Downstairs, in a room that used to be a living area but has been rearranged into what is, essentially, a sickroom, your grandmother is probably asleep. ❋ Ann-Marie Martino (2011)

The young man led them upstairs to his sister's sickroom. ❋ Siren Of Brixton (2010)

The doctor had come and gone, but the house smelled like a sickroom, an odor Ruby remembered all too well. ❋ Joseph Wallace (2010)