convalescing

At the height of the sympathetic strike my oldest sister, who was convalescing from a long illness in a hospital near Chicago, became suddenly very much worse.

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

The Capuchine friar, Francisco de Ajofrín, who disembarked there in 1763, remarked that: "all the people who live here, even the young people, are of pallid complexion, and are in such a broken state of health [tan quebrados], as if they were convalescing from a grave illness, and the cause is the continual transpiration and sweating from the excessive heat, [which is] seen also in their actions and even in they way they speak ..."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

(In a 1971 “false memoir” called “Wolf,” written while Harrison was convalescing from a fall off a cliff, he suggested curing heartbreak by broiling a two - to three-pound porterhouse, eating it with your hands, followed by a hot bath in which you consume the best bourbon you can buy until the bottle is empty.

February 2007 2007

(In a 1971 “false memoir” called “Wolf,” written while Harrison was convalescing from a fall off a cliff, he suggested curing heartbreak by broiling a two - to three-pound porterhouse, eating it with your hands, followed by a hot bath in which you consume the best bourbon you can buy until the bottle is empty.

Blythe on Harrison; Harrison on Hannah 2007

One survivor was sent to Anchorage and quickly worked her way into the heart of Smith, who calls the convalescing bird "Avalanche Girl."

Vail Daily - Top Stories Associated Press 2010

The word "convalescing" seemed to do something to Mrs. Pumphrey.

Favourite Dog Stories Herriot, James 1995

I’m drawn to the idea of convalescing in a saline grotto, but this Ukrainian sanatorium seems too close to the setting of a posthumously published Thomas Bernhard novel.

headline of the day | clusterflock 2010

UPDATE: TMZ. com has heard from Yale Galanter, Mueller's atotrney who says Brooke is NOT rehabbing but "convalescing" at a facility.

WN.com - Articles related to Former tennis great Ilie Nastase to divorce 2010

UPDATE: TMZ. com has heard from Yale Galanter, Mueller's atotrney who says Brooke is NOT rehabbing but "convalescing" at a facility.

WN.com - Articles related to Former tennis great Ilie Nastase to divorce 2010

Meanwhile, Mr. Mubarak was reported to be convalescing from heart trouble at a hospital in the resort city of Sharm El Sheikh.

Egypt's Leader Names New Ministers Matt Bradley 2011