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  • Happy birthday to vulpine137 -- may your ear-trumpet and bathchair never let you down!

    Because, y'know, same day as me and all that -- vulpine137 2009

  • Reshuffle...and when the music stopped the old duffer found himself alone in his bathchair with a nurse in attendance

    LibDem Reshuffle Underway 2007

  • “Ha! Ha! Ha!” laughed the indigenous old lady in her bathchair.

    Between the Acts 2004

  • Wanted to go and talk to her but my aunt carried me off to chat with an old Pussy in a bathchair. '

    Partners In Crime Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984

  • Maître Aubonnet was sitting in a bathchair with rubber wheels and was amusing himself by driving very fast up and down a gallery.

    Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962

  • It was really most amusing, probably the dear old man had three Mausers under his floor boards, and perhaps a bathchair was to be found somewhere on the premises, in which he could be conveyed to the top of a kopje now and again, to enjoy the pleasure of sniping the _verdommte Rooineks_, or their convoy as it passed along.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • Ailesbury road, Clyde road, artisans 'dwellings, north Dublin union, lord mayor in his gingerbread coach, old queen in a bathchair.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow of independent, if limited, means, in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Yet at mid-day, when I saw Miss Mary in her bathchair, Arthurs behind and Baxter and Miss Elizabeth on either side, in the park-like grounds of the Hydro, I found it difficult to arrange my words.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • When Felix came up to the slit through which the bright eyes gleamed, and asked whether she were comfortable and liked it, her answer was a long-drawn gasp from the wells of infinite satisfaction, such as set him calculating how many drives in a bathchair the remnant of his birthday gift would yet produce.

    The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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