Spaces next to where one sleeps

Usage examples of bedsides.

Then calling to mind the devices of his masters at the bedsides of patients, he comforted the sufferer with all sorts of kindly remarks, those Caresses of the surgeon that are like the oil they put on bistouries.

I recalled the death of my parents and endeavored to fix my mind upon the last sad scenes at their bedsides and their graves.

Fathers shouted their children's names while they waved favorite toys tied to long poles, hoping to entice the wandering souls, and mothers stood tensely at the bedsides with cords that would tie the souls to the bodies should they return.