sick-chamber

Her room has nothing of the sick-chamber in it; medicines, ointments, the whole apparatus of nursing, is carefully concealed.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

Mr. Fitzpiers entered the sick-chamber just as a doctor is more or less wont to do on such occasions, and pre-eminently when the room is that of a humble cottager, looking round towards the patient with that preoccupied gaze which so plainly reveals that he has wellnigh forgotten all about the case and the whole circumstances since he dismissed them from his mind at his last exit from the same apartment.

The Woodlanders 2006

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

I am to see Livy a moment every afternoon until she has another bad night; and I stand in dread, for with all my practice I realize that in a sudden emergency I am but a poor, clumsy liar, whereas a fine alert and capable emergency liar is the only sort that is worth anything in a sick-chamber.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

He began with great earnestness to entreat her to refrain from visiting the sick-chamber again, for the present -- to entreat her to promise him not to venture into such hazard till he had seen Mr. Perry and learnt his opinion; and though she tried to laugh it off and bring the subject back into its proper course, there was no putting an end to his extreme solicitude about her.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

And he followed, drawn to a trouble that must be resolved before he could take any comfort, and hovered in the doorway of the sick-chamber, but did not step within, Iestyn remained at the foot of the stairs.

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

"Then I will go to her," she answered, "that she may see a face of love when she passes," and pushing them all aside, she resolutely entered the sick-chamber, signing to Maestro Gentile to follow her; but the protest from the group of learned men was less than she had feared, since the

The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

He talked very roughly for several minutes against the protest of the doorkeeper, who said he had positive orders to admit no one to the sick-chamber.

Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Henry Bascom Smith

When she fell ill with the measles she was attended in her sick-chamber by four gentlemen of the court.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

Now and then I peep from my cool, dark sick-chamber out into the world of light.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various