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Sickbed

noun
1.
The bed on which a sick person lies.





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"Sickbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... had visitors to his sickbed, and again and again he told the tale, described his foe, and told how he knew that the man recognized him, first taking him—or so he believed—for a spectre from the tomb, afterwards filled with the most lively terror as he realized that he was ...
— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green
... invalid, who might well have pleaded his weakness and constant pains as an excuse for idleness and railings against fate. Stoic courage in the strong is a virtue, but how much greater the cheerful courage that laughs at sickness and pain! Stevenson writing in a sickbed stories and essays that help one to endure the blows of fate is a spectacle such as this world has few to offer. So the man's life and work have come to be a constant inspiration to those who are faint-hearted, a call to arms of all one's ...
— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch
... more than the automobile, had been the symbol of American life and activity, the essential means of communication which had promoted every business deal, every social function, every romance; it had been the first palliation of the sickbed and the last admission of the mourner. Without telephones we were not even in the horse and buggy days—we had returned to the oxcart. I replaced the receiver slowly in its cradle and looked at it a long ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore


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