bedfast

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

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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.

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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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She had been for some time bedfast, having all her days from the date of her widowhood been a tender woman; but no change made any alteration on the Christian contentment of her mind.

From The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by Galt, John