bedfast

When the visitors stopped coming, Mamaw fell into depression, went bedfast.

For All the Good These Hands Have Done Sheldon Lee Compton 2012

Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year.

They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007

Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year.

They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007

And her father and mother, sister died with tuberculosis, set it on me and I was bedfast five months.

CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2002 2002

And one of the greatest men I ever met in my life was a fellow named Colonel Phil Hart, who later became a United States senator from the state of Michigan, who ran errands for all of us who were bedfast; who provided baseball tickets -- Detroit Tigers -- the Briggs family owned the Detroit Tigers then; his wife was a Briggs.

Remarks At World War Ii Memorial Breakfast Reception ITY National Archives 2000

For years, Elizabeth Barrett had been an invalid, bedfast in her room.

Swan’s Soup & Salad DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 1999

For years, Elizabeth Barrett had been an invalid, bedfast in her room.

Swan’s Soup & Salad DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 1999

"MAKE SURE he stays bedfast for a while," Dr. Goodfellow told them at the door.

Moon Shadow Stewardson, Dawn 1991

The style here is more emotive than Swift's, but in his deadpan explanatory notes ( "This is a rural English custom designed to eliminate aged and bedfast dependents") there is a Swiftian factuality.

Déjeuner sur l'Herbe McCarthy, Mary 1963

Grandmother Krausa, although bedfast, occasionally insisted on being carried on inspection tours; somebody always suffered.

Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957