lie-a-bed

Now when the morning was come, I waked, hearing Mistress Madison calling upon me from the other side of my door, and rating me very saucily for a lie-a-bed, and at that I made good speed at dressing, and came quickly into the saloon, where she had ready a breakfast that made me glad I had waked.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

He will put you on your mettle; and you must be no lie-a-bed if you would profit by his instruction.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

I myself, a lie-a-bed, often steal out, foregoing the best hours of the day abed, that I may attend that levée.

The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914

Now when the morning was come, I waked, hearing Mistress Madison calling upon me from the other side of my door, and rating me very saucily for a lie-a-bed, and at that I made good speed at dressing, and came quickly into the saloon, where she had ready a breakfast that made me glad I had waked.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig: Chapter 16 1907

But had the morrow repeated the terrors of this day, we should hardly have been up to witness them, for (_proh pudor_!) we rewarded ourselves for our exertions by a lie-a-bed next morning in place of early school.

Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth John Huntley Skrine 1885

'pleasant' in the enforced days of lie-a-bed quietness, and would have made no murmurs over the hard fate which forbade to them the active joys of other boys and girls?

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

"lie-a-bed" as he was in the mornings, and he expected to be served with a hot breakfast whatever might be the hour of his appearance.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

Her little face peeped out of the veils and kerchiefs that wrapped her head, like a half-moon out of thick clouds; but her bright eyes shone kindly on me as she cried: "Come, haste to your breakfast, lie-a-bed!

Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

Her little face peeped out of the veils and kerchiefs that wrapped her head, like a half-moon out of thick clouds; but her bright eyes shone kindly on me as she cried: "Come, haste to your breakfast, lie-a-bed!

Margery — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867