bedfast

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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.

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After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast.

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The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.

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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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Mind you, in these casual observations as compiled by me while bedfast and here given utterance, I am not seeking to disparage possibly the noblest of professions.

From Speaking of Operations by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)