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  • In her last years she would take the air, pushed in a bath-chair in Hyde Park, where once she had ruled the Row.

    The tailors and the Lady 2009

  • But if you're on the biggest kind of job and are bound to get to the real boss, ten to one you are brought up against a little white-faced Jew in a bath-chair with an eye like a rattlesnake.

    [them] out of the closet 2009

  • In her last years she would take the air, pushed in a bath-chair in Hyde Park, where once she had ruled the Row.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Consider what's about to happen: we may have a man, who happens to be black, as the next USA president: he may turn out to be a dissembling, manoevring, embittered shyster, but because he's black we are told we must psychologically bow down before his every footstep on the road to change, (how shamlessly the left still wheel out their bath-chair cliches).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Blisters were applied to his legs which discharged well for weeks, and he was cupped and had leeches placed on his temples for the same reason.15 But he suffered such agony from the blistering that he had to be confined in the straitjacket and, unable to walk, pushed about in a bath-chair.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • But if you're on the biggest kind of job and are bound to get to the real boss, ten to one you are brought up against a little white-faced Jew in a bath-chair with an eye like a rattlesnake.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Blisters were applied to his legs which discharged well for weeks, and he was cupped and had leeches placed on his temples for the same reason.15 But he suffered such agony from the blistering that he had to be confined in the straitjacket and, unable to walk, pushed about in a bath-chair.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Blisters were applied to his legs which discharged well for weeks, and he was cupped and had leeches placed on his temples for the same reason.15 But he suffered such agony from the blistering that he had to be confined in the straitjacket and, unable to walk, pushed about in a bath-chair.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • How the matter settled itself I do not know — we were much too anxious to disentangle ourselves from the affair and get out of range of the eye of the old gentleman in the bath-chair to make minute inquiries.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • Unless it was for one corpulent old gentleman in a bath-chair, who certainly did start at the sight of us and afterwards regarded us at intervals with a darkly suspicious eye, and, finally, I believe, said something to his nurse about us,

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

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