Word: invaliding
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...When I was twelve years old my own mother was taken away. She was a sweet and gentle influence. I always recall her having my sister and me brought to her bedside to receive her blessing in her very last hours. She had been an invalid for as long as I could remember. I can see now that she was a woman of taste and discretion. . . . She loved poetry...
Leaping from his bed Invalid Pierre fled from the hospital, distraught. He rushed out upon a neighboring bridge, disappeared, is thought to have drowned himself...
...artist, who sympathized with her instinct for writing and encouraged the project of her present work. The New York to which she goes back in its pages is the New York of her girlhood, speculatively remembered. That she had lately to send Mr. Bender home to Denmark, an incurable invalid, did not lighten her labors. The Dewing girls, Mary and Elizabeth Ann, attend a Manhattan convent of English nuns...
...Bellefonte hospital they took care of Lieutenant Bettis, and then a passenger plane, equipped with an invalid hammock, rushed him to Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. Physicians marveled at his stamina, pronounced him convalescent despite 43 hours of pain and exposure...
...Court likewise held invalid a law of Washington which was used in quarantining the state against alfalfa shipments (which it was feared might bring in the alfalfa weevil), because the Court held that the state law conflicted with an Act of Congress placing the power to establish such quarantines with the Secretary of Agriculture...