bedfast

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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient 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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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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Being bedfast with lumbago must be mighty trying to the temper.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston