invalids

Patricia Berne: It's a play on words of course, referring to the fact that people with disabilities have been called invalids pronounced in-VUH-lid.

Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011

Patricia Berne: It's a play on words of course, referring to the fact that people with disabilities have been called invalids pronounced in-VUH-lid.

Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011

Three or four days passed away; the invalids were all well again; the usual habits of the house were resumed, various guests arrived, and

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

Among the invalids was the daughter of this duke; she was not only suffering from the same complaint, but she was so like

Camille Alexandre Dumas fils 1859

I then called for my medicine-chest, and having weighed several three-grain doses of tartar emetic, I called the invalids, and insisted upon their taking the medicine before they started, or they might become seriously ill upon the road, which for three days 'march was uninhabited.

In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857

As you say, there are very few 'invalids' who are too badly disabled to work.

Brace yourself 2008

Delta Air Lines may provide amenities as they feel are necessary to maintain the safety and welfare of certain passengers such as invalids, senior citizens, unaccompanied minors, etc..

Don't Fly Without A Copy Of Rule 240 - The Consumerist 2007

Rule 240 states that American Airlines may provide amenities as they feel are necessary to maintain the safety and welfare of certain passengers such as invalids, senior citizens, unaccompanied minors, etc.

Don't Fly Without A Copy Of Rule 240 - The Consumerist 2007

In legislation and social organization, proceed on the principle that invalids, meaning persons who cannot keep themselves alive by their own activities, cannot, beyond reason, expect to be kept alive by the activity of others.

The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903

He expected an effusive welcome, such as invalids give their friends when they see them again for the first time.

Renée Mauperin Edmond de Goncourt 1859