invalid-chair

GOING in to Lise, he found her half reclining in the invalid-chair, in which she had been wheeled when she was unable to walk.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

The woman began to sob on the last words, and there was a general movement in the group about her as with a sudden squeaking of wheels a man in a hand-propelled invalid-chair shot forward, and Jerry and the policeman found themselves looking down into the pale, harassed face of a man aged about five-and-thirty.

The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

Is that the chap in the invalid-chair I saw as I came in?

The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

In the mean time, Julien, quite unconscious that his love for Reine was providing conversation for all the gossips of the country, was cursing the untoward event that kept him stretched in his invalid-chair.

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Mrs. Lee, sitting in her invalid-chair, was discoursing to me, feelingly, on the striking contrast between the ragged clothing worn by

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore

In the course of the forenoon Cai paid a call at Mr Rogers's harbour-side store, where he found Mr Rogers himself superintending, from his invalid-chair, the weighing out of coal.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Even to the last, when she was almost too weak to speak, she would have papa carry her to the study, and, lying there in the invalid-chair, she'd smile at him as he kept looking up at her from his writing.

We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses Barbara Yechton 1901

As she was attiring herself, Sophie, who was seated in her deep invalid-chair, looking at her, was seized by an uncontrollable longing to put on her wedding-dress, and satisfy her mind as to its being a good fit.

Bressant Julian Hawthorne 1890

'Twas from his invalid-chair within the library window that the once great Commander sate and saw this sight; her Grace standing by her husband at a long table, giving each gift with her own hand and saying

His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

The invalid-chair on which he wheeled himself, recumbent, from room to room, and from which he gave his lectures, was, in the eyes of Oxford, a symbol not of weakness, but of touching and triumphant victory.

Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885