I should have it marked on my linen, and sit up in bed to read it on my nightshirt.

He sat up in bed and shouted "Come in."

I rose, and wrote my Journal till about nine; and then went to Dr. Johnson, who sat up in bed and talked and laughed.

He sat up in bed till past one o'clock talking about 'imself, and twice Peter Russet woke Ginger up to listen and got punched for 'is trouble.

Another loafer contributed an anecdote of how he had tied ropes to a dead negro so as to make the corpse sit up in bed and frighten the mourners.

The effect of the injection seemed truly miraculous; and he was able to sit up in bed, his back resting against the pillows.

I sat up in bed, and as I did so my wife said to me sleepily, "What is that?

Now, madam, I'll just say to you, if ever I break into a room where you're sleepin', I'll see that you don't come to no harm, even if you sit up in bed and holler.

I opened my eyes just in time to see him sit up in bed with one of his shoes in his hand.

There!" The small servant was so much agitated herself that she made no effort to restrain Mr. Swiveller when he sat up in bed, and hastily demanded whether this story had been told to anybody.

" "Mother, do you hear what she says!" cried Mr. Brooks, forgetting himself, and trying to sit up in bed.

One morning he awoke with a strange feeling of stiffness about his face, and no sooner did he sit up in bed than a laugh rang around the whole room.

Martha Foote sat up in bed, now, preparatory to the heroic flinging aside of the covers.

Twice did I sit up in bed, breathless, with my hand on the cane, in the most intense anxiety; but fatigue finally overcame suspicion, and I sank into a deep sleep, from which I was gladly awakened by daylight.

Two days later the lad was able to sit up in bed and to enter upon a discussion as to the future with Tom and the miner.

He was allowed to sit up in bed and read a little.

He was able to sit up in bed and look at picture-books, while the little Rabbit cuddled close at his side.

"She's come home in Stillman's car," flashed through Mrs. Robson's mind, as she sat up in bed.

"I heard Jerry sit up in bed.

Luckily the men in our ambulance just now are either convalescent, or, at any rate, able to sit up in bed and bear excitement.

They were two o' the likeliest pigs I ever seed, and all Peter Gubbins could do was to sit up in bed shivering and listening to their squeals as the tiger dragged 'em off.

He ate his tea in silence, and after he had finished lit his pipe and sat up in bed smoking.

" Saint-Denis tried to sit up in bed, but was obliged to resign himself, with a gasp, to the straw pillows.

He requested me to sit up in bed, and rapped my shoulders and chest with his knuckles, in a forgetful way.

He sat up in bed to look at the clock, which was exactly opposite; and as he did so, in the large mirror over the fireplace he perceived a figure standing behind him.