chair-bound

Updated: May 28, 2025

Everybody would have a question ready for her the next day, for it was known that she had been slaving herself devotedly since the news had come of old Captain Knowles's sudden death in his bed from a stroke, the last of three which had in the course of a year or two changed him from a strong old man to a feeble, chair-bound cripple. Mrs.

Sarah Orne Jewett - Strangers and Wayfarers