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Ingelram, being in his ninetieth year — for I warrant you he could remember when Benedict the Thirteenth was deposed — and being ill at ease and bed-rid, the brethren rounded in his ear that he were better resign his office.

The Monastery 2008

We see the explosive and incendiary bombs bursting into the dirty little urban homes of the time, blowing to rags the bed-rid grandmother and the baby in the cradle; we see the panic-stricken crowds seeking the shelter of cellars and excavations and the drainlike railway “tubes” of the time.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Her mother nearly bed-rid, could not survive any extreme of famine-struck poverty.

The Last Man 2003

The other girls married off, and left her to hum, and she had chances, so it wuz said, good ones, but she wouldn't leave her father and mother, who wuz gettin 'old, and kinder bed-rid, and needed her.

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 4 Marietta Holley 1881

The other girls married off, and left her to hum, and she had chances, so it wuz said, good ones, but she wouldn't leave her father and mother, who wuz gettin 'old, and kinder bed-rid, and needed her.

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

I knowed Bildad's wife wuz most bed-rid so I would be free to conduct my search with no gossip or slurs onto Josiah.

Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

Our Martha lived with her aunt at Walsall -- that's my only sister, and she was bed-rid, poor thing, and had Martha to look after her.

Eve's Ransom George Gissing 1880

He presented the aspect of one who, bed-rid, has, through overruling excitement, like that of a fire, been stimulated to his feet.

The Confidence-Man 1857

He presented the aspect of one who, bed-rid, has, through overruling excitement, like that of a fire, been stimulated to his feet.

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

My limbs tottered under me, as if I had been for months bed-rid.

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850