rest-cure

He thought pragmatically that since he had arranged the dinner meeting with the unsatisfactory conglomerate to take place at a restaurant lower down the river from Oxford, and since he had no job to hurry back to, he would extend his water journey in time and distance, and rest-cure his bruised expectations while mentally rehearsing how to cajole juice from conglomerate flint.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

Roome 602 — Palmer Sanatorium's morgue — was where they took their final rest-cure.

The Blueball Express 2009

The computer had been running slow for ages and was in desperate need of some more memory and whatnot as well, so I have bit the bullet and taken it in to the shop for a much needed rest-cure.

Finished snowflakes katelnorth 2007

The computer had been running slow for ages and was in desperate need of some more memory and whatnot as well, so I have bit the bullet and taken it in to the shop for a much needed rest-cure.

Archive 2007-12-01 katelnorth 2007

And was 111 somewhat slowed down in her inevitable dreary progress between the abortionist and the rest-cure?

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

And was 111 somewhat slowed down in her inevitable dreary progress between the abortionist and the rest-cure?

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

‘I can’t call our business an absolute rest-cure any time.

Greenmantle 2005

The other one will go from the rest-cure in this city to the rest-cure in Norfolk,

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

(In the novella 'Ship Fever,' the typhus epidemic and Canadian quarantine of 1847, following in the wake of the Irish potato famine; in 'The Cure,' the novella that concludes Servants of the Map and continues the adventures of an Irish survivor of 'Ship Fever,' the establishment of tuberculosis 'rest-cure homes' in the Adirondack Mountains in the early years of the twentieth century.)

For Goodness' Sake Oates, Joyce Carol 2002

He had rheumatic fever when he was 15 and was sent off to the Azores by himself, which was really hard for a young boy to go off like that on -- to a rest-cure in the sun.

Morgan: American Financier 1999