bedfast
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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.
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The scientists, who have been going aboard each morning since the test started on Jan. 19, took blood samples from the bedfast half of the crew.
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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.
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His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner.
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Mother is bedfast with rheumatism," he said, "and it would do her a power of good if you would run in and see her sometime.
From The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan by Edholm, Lizette M.
