abed

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But we have also filled our cemeteries with those who defied the remedies of sunshine and citrus, and died abed anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Above the narrow little room where May and Timothy sit plotting, their father lies abed, his wits gone haywire.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

I began to notice I was losing sleep about a decade ago − at first just a little top-and-tailing of the main period of repose, so I lay abed an hour or so less.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

“Respectable” women were abed and largely avoided Whitechapel to begin with.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2014

Dr. Trefusis lay abed, staring into the darkness, the smell of his perspiration and urine thick in the chamber.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson