bedfast

• “When the visitors stopped coming, Mamaw fell into depression, went bedfast.”

  Fictionaut: For All the Good These Hands Have Done

• “Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year.”

  Simon & Schuster: They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2

• “And her father and mother, sister died with tuberculosis, set it on me and I was bedfast five months.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2002

• “And one of the greatest men I ever met in my life was a fellow named Colonel Phil Hart, who later became a United States senator from the state of Michigan, who ran errands for all of us who were bedfast; who provided baseball tickets -- Detroit Tigers -- the Briggs family owned the Detroit Tigers then; his wife was a Briggs.”

  Remarks At World War Ii Memorial Breakfast Reception

• “For years, Elizabeth Barrett had been an invalid, bedfast in her room.”

  Simon & Schuster: Swan’s Soup & Salad

• “MAKE SURE he stays bedfast for a while," Dr. Goodfellow told them at the door.”

  Moon Shadow

• “The style here is more emotive than Swift's, but in his deadpan explanatory notes ( "This is a rural English custom designed to eliminate aged and bedfast dependents") there is a Swiftian factuality.”

  Déjeuner sur l'Herbe

• “Grandmother Krausa, although bedfast, occasionally insisted on being carried on inspection tours; somebody always suffered.”

  Citizen Of The Galaxy

• “The Blind, Crooked, Bedrels [bedfast], Widows, Orphans, and all other Poor, so visited by the hand of God as they may not work,”

  John Knox

• “Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.”

  Kenny

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