1643 examples of invalids in sentences

On one side of the court were the rooms for the patients, on the other nice rooms and small apartments which were let to invalids or old ladies, and which opened on a garden, really a park of thirteen or fourteen acres.

Moreover, while the Thirty-second Foot was quartered at Lucknow, the wives, families, and invalids of the regiment were living at Cawnpore.

A cousin, however, who had formed one of the party, had fallen ill of the same fever, and needed careful nursing, so that she found her hands full, and, as the recovery of both invalids was slow, she determined to give up her London work, and devote herself to them.

As an aliment, it is well adapted for invalids and persons of delicate constitution.

what food! mortality is dreadful, the children are invalids, and the women, especially in the country, are condemned to do the work of beasts of burden; such is the picture of society.

The major was in fine spirits, and Helen assumed her maternal air toward both invalids, for the sound of that hollow cough always brought a shadow over her face, recalling the brother she had lost.

Pears to me I couldn't ask her to take care of three invalids for my sake.

It has made a myriad of women more thoughtful and devout; it has brought a hopeful spirit into the homes of unnumbered invalids.

The bacteria of consumption (bacillus tuberculosis) may retain their vitality for months, and then the dried expectoration of the invalids may become a source of danger to those who inhale air laden with such impurities (sec. 220 and Fig. 94).

Recurring, then, to Mr. Everett's story of the Guava jelly, which was recommended to invalids, but would "not materially injure those who are well," we may add to what we have said, that all readers of this volume will find valuable suggestions in it for the enlightenment of the gospel narratives.

Against the wall hung some white-pine shelves with more books,quite a little circulating library they were for invalids and read-out people, who came to the mountains, like foolish virgins, with scant supply of the oil of literature for the feeding of their brain-lamps.

Next morning we had a skirmish, in which I received this wound in the knee; and soon afterwards, with other invalids, I was ordered home.

Precisely the same kind of hut in the Crimea held a little company of men in perfect health, or a set of invalids, carried out one after another to their graves.

Invalids go in for calisthenics; for invalids (alone of all human beings) desire strength.

Invalids go in for calisthenics; for invalids (alone of all human beings) desire strength.

I spent a week at the ancient (for America) town of St. Augustine, on the Atlantic coast,then the sleepy watering-place of a few Southern invalids,and enjoyed greatly its local color, so different from that of all other American towns, its picturesque fortress of the days of Spanish rule, and its Spanish fishermen, in their undiluted nationality and costume.

Wide-eyed, hurried Americans came, saw, and bought a picture, and went away again; English sightseers came for Christmas or Easter, and bought a few old masters; but the mass of those who stayed for long were invalids, who settled down and tried to keep as much in the sun as possible, for the universal belief then was that to live out of the sunshine was to contract mortal malaria.

It must be delightful, especially to invalids, and ought to prolong life for them....

Friday, October 13.The past three days have seen a marked improvement in both our invalids.

Sunday, October 15.Both of our invalids progress favourably.

The invalids progress, Clissold a little alarmed about his back, but without cause.

She has taken of late years to the care of adult invalids, having surrendered to younger hands the little people who inhabit cradles, and crawl on all-fours.

The invalids of the sea, rusting in the harbors as old iron, were now bringing fabulous prices.

Baby epicure; appetizing dishes for children and invalids.

The President must necessarily have broken his Neck, and have been taken up dead once or twice: For the more Maims this Brotherhood shall have met with, the easier will their Conversation flow and keep up; and when any one of these vigorous Invalids had finished his Narration of the Collar-bone, this naturally would introduce the History of the Ribs.

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