invalid

• Clearly, the invalid was also spared any household duties. —  The Idler
• The pillows which Mrs. Lawkins carefully placed for the support of the invalid were almost as much needed by his mother; but she sat erect, and drew herself away from them, as though the merest approach to a reclining posture would have been a lapse from dignity. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• I say normal cases, because ill-health and physical weakness reproduce the signs of old age, even when the invalid is a youth. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• Give her a cup of beef-tea two or three times in the night, my dear, and you'll find it will sustain the body wonderfully I'll remember to do so,' replied Bell, gravely, although she had no intention of remaining awake all night to heat beef-tea and dose her mother with it, especially as the invalid was not ill enough for such extreme measures. —  The Bishop's Secret
• They built a small log-hut for the invalid, and did everything to make him as comfortable as possible. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

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