What is "sickbed"

Usage examples of "sickbed".

Yet Veraguth was unwilling to miss an hour, he clung to his post at the sickbed with jealous passion.

Now his sickbed was gently laid on one of the coal-loading pallets, and even the rough-handed crewmen took great care in fetching him on board and carrying him to a cabin.

The fact that Ross had taken it upon himself to leave his sickbed provided her with a welcome distraction, and she pounced on it eagerly.

Hitler ordered the Desert Fox from his sickbed to fly to El Alamein and resume command.

His German editor notes that Roon drafted this memoir on his last sickbed, and did not revise it.

Pen from her own sickbed had heard him day after day, night after night.

James, from his sickbed, anxious to move to his new home, gave orders that a log cabin should be built for his family at the edge of the site, and a small schoolhouse for the children.

Hanbei had heard that Hideyoshi was on his way, he had had his sickbed put away and ordered a servant to sweep the room clean, while he himself changed.

He rested atop the counterpane not like a man in a sickbed, but like a man who had lain down for but a moment in the middle of a busy day.

He had planned it all perfectly, for his wife was asleep and would never know that he had lied to her as she lay on her sickbed in the poor ward of the county hospital.

Then Brown came to him with a telegram summoning him to the sickbed of his only sister, and within an hour he left the city, and was absent two weeks.

When he was gone again down the valley, I resumed the work, and threw myself at it with new vigour, like a man rising from the sickbed of his soul.

Peering round the edge of the clock door, Tarantella realized that they were not alone, and she slumped back onto her sickbed, toppling the brandy thimble as she did so.

I resumed the work, and threw myself at it with new vigour, like a man rising from the sickbed of his soul.

Apparently her handmaid Jancis had convinced her to leave her sickbed behind and get some air.