invalid's

Of course the services of a doctor were always accepted when an Indian fell ill; otherwise the invalid's death would surely ensue, brought about by the evil influence that was unpropitiated.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

He does a lot of soulful laying around in an invalid's repose, but I'm convinced a more sprightly script could have forged emotional fire.

"Bright Star" The Movie - What would poet, John Keats be like today 2009

Symptoms of the invalid's painful and debilitating decline have punctuated the path to its demise.

Michael Brenner: Health Care Reform: The End Is Nigh 2009

Liam told me, during that last summer residency, that he refused to endure again the healing tortures of modern medicine — "healing" if you were lucky — or to put up with an invalid's life.

Elegy for the Executive Director 2007

Jook paraded down the wide steps and peered deeply into the invalid's unblinking eyes.

Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

"Never again will I attempt to perform the feats of a Hercules when I am fit only for an invalid's chair."

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

The former dining room was now an invalid's room, a place for a seriously ill patient to stay until she was well enough to be discharged and taken to her own home.

The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

Her grandmother, Countess de Malesherbes with a jester's hat on, was slumped into an invalid's chair beside her.

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

Her grandmother, Countess de Malesherbes with a jester's hat on, was slumped into an invalid's chair beside her.

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

I supposed he could tell the time as I had done during my own period of invalid's incarceration, by an internal clock that takes some of its cues from things like the rising and setting of the sun, and certain noises that come regularly from the world outside the doors, and eventually-when one is well enough-from cycles of hunger and sleeping.

Beacon Street Mourning Day, Dianne 2000