sick-a-bed

Updated: May 16, 2025

Then she got back into bed, and tried to compose her features into some resemblance of invalidism. When Mr. Mr. Grantley went at once and she heard the door shut with a snap. Just to be sure that it was "snibbed," Mrs. McGuire tiptoed after him in her bare feet, a very bad thing for a sick-a-bed lady to do, too, but to her credit, be it written, she did not listen at the keyhole.

Nellie L. McClung - Sowing Seeds in Danny

Melton, who is Lydia's godfather, and her final awakening is largely due to him. One day he finds Lydia's mother upstairs sick-a-bed, and thus breaks forth to his godchild: 'About your mother I know without going upstairs that she is floored with one or another manifestation of the great disease of social-ambitionitis. But calm yourself.

George Wharton James - Quit Your Worrying!