After breakfast one of the first occupations of the duchess was to visit her old bedridden maid, to minister to her in things both temporal and spiritual.

He died the next day, poor man, and his bedridden widow survived the shock of witnessing his dreadful agonies and death but a very little while.

And owing to the circumstance that her mother had been dead many years, and her father bedridden, and not altogether rational for a little while before his death, they had few visitors but her uncle.

A superannuated and bedridden woman, who had nursed her mother in her last illness, lived on the northern outskirts of the town; and she must cross the long covered bridge that spanned the Hendrik River to take a basket full of comforting trifles to old Hetty that night.

And she pictured what she would be in ten years: the hard-driven landlady, up to every subterfuge,with a child to feed and educate, and perhaps a bedridden, querulous invalid to support.

Adj. diseased; ailing &c v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather

One afternoon, after tea out on the lawn, they were walking together by the bypath to the lodge in order to meet Lady Heyburn, who had gone into the village to visit a bedridden old lady.

Insomuch that she did not complain without a cause in [6046]Apuleius, of an old bald bedridden knave she had to her good man: "Poor woman as I am, what shall I do?

And, therefore, as the poet inveighs, thou old Vetustina bedridden quean, that art now skin and bones, "Cui tres capilli, quatuorque sunt dentes, Pectus cicadae, crusculumque formicae, Rugosiorem quae geris stola frontem, Et arenaram cassibus pares mammas.

" Miss Cuyler was reading to Mrs. Lockmuller, who was old and bedridden and cross.

There were bedridden old women huddled up on mattresses, almost dead with terror.

Bedridden she was; but so kind as Joe was to her!

" An old bedridden woman was visited by the parson, and the following dialogue took place: "Well, Annie, how are you to-day?" "O sir, I be so bad!

So much so, that it was even she who had to catch the rheumatism, and to lie now bedridden, months at a time, while Jeanne Marie was as active in her sabots as she had ever been.

When she became bedridden, Jeanne Marie bought the ticket for both, on the numbers, however, that Anne Marie gave her; and Anne Marie had to lie in bed and wait, while Jeanne Marie went out to watch the placard.

His devils have plundered the town, thrown out the bedridden that jest couldn't move, thrown their goods out after 'em, burned, murdered, tore up.

He had been bedridden nearly all winter, but uncomplainingly, his wife and daughter-in-law caring for him, and it was not until the early part of May, when all the world was growing green, that he began to mend and at the same time groan at his confinement.

Then came a full-throated scream of terror from the menaced house, and there in the doorway, clad in a bed gown, but erect and defiant, was the person of long-bedridden Grandma Dodwell herself.

In the year of grace 1412 the Vicomte, being then bedridden, died without any disease and of no malady save the inherencies of his age.

The groom returned, and said he had met an old man, picking water-cresses, and he was the only person who lived in the abbey, except his wife, and she was bedridden.

You must walk about by yourselves, for I have no breath, and my mistress is bedridden.

Those that remain are the slow-witted, or those who are tied in a measure by family difficultiesas a bedridden mother to attend to; or, perhaps, an illegitimate child of her own may fetter the cottage girl.

She wanted to come, you remember, but she's bedridden. . . .

"You can't pick up a thing like that at a moment's noticeI had my eye on it for years; all the time old Brown was bedridden, in fact.

"There is one person whom I should much like to point out to you as an object for your charitythe old shepherd's wife who is bedridden.