convalescent's

This was to be a convalescent's holiday: familiar books; a brief visit to an old friend to provide an object for the journey; a route left to each day's whim and including country both familiar and new; even the salutary irritant of a personal problem to justify solitude and self-indulgent idleness.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

We feel as though we were just recovering from a sickness, with a pleasant bodily weakness like a convalescent's in the springtime.

Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 Ruth Pierce

If the supposition be correct, it explains the convalescent's being joined by Balzac again in September at Baden-Baden, where the arrangements were made for Eve and himself to meet in October at

Balzac Frederick Lawton

I permitted myself a convalescent's liberty, and captured his hand lovingly.

Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

"After all," he said to himself one evening, as his eyes wandered, with somewhat of a convalescent's simple joy, from one to another of their large confiding faces, "after all, they've got a religion ...."

The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

His life seemed as flat as a convalescent's first days after the fever has dropped.

The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

I permitted myself a convalescent's liberty, and captured his hand lovingly.

Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

I am in the convalescent's mood of confidence and confession; therefore, I write in haste, for in health I am buoyant and amiable, and not fluently penitent; indeed, there is little then to be penitent about.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

The Loyette children insisted on being included in the rejoicing over the convalescent's step forward, and soon Pierre, the oldest boy, was haled before J.M. himself to account for his having dared to use the McCartey name for the sick man.

Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Roman numerals are all right for a rainy Sunday afternoon or to take a convalescent's mind from his illness, but to put them in a public place, where the reader stands a good chance of being run over by a dray if he spends more than fifty seconds in their perusal, is not in keeping with the efficiency of the age.

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917