But a sickroom was a sickroom, and illness had an odor. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air] Reference
But the sickroom was a different place now, when we had Allan's cheery visits to enliven our long evenings. From Wordnik.com. [Esther : a book for girls] Reference
We were all crowded into the little study, which I'd reluctantly surrendered as a "sickroom" when Sadd had announced his impending demise. From Wordnik.com. [Working Murder]
I left his sickroom and went outside for some air. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
The young man led them upstairs to his sister's sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [The man-faced boy] Reference
About an hour after they had left the sickroom, Square met. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
Not much need for a clothes chest in a sickroom, he supposed. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
A sickroom in the Middle East, then as now, was a gathering place. From Wordnik.com. ['After the Prophet'] Reference
She remembered her father strutting back into the sickroom saying. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
The sickroom itself should be large and in a quiet part of the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the sickroom in. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
The strictest attention should be paid to the ventilation of the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
July went into the sickroom from time to time, feeling awkward and helpless. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Into the ordered stillness of the sickroom he brought the first disturbance. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Frank departed and Joan compassionately set herself to sentinel the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
“I would notdream of allowing Tocelyn in the sickroom,” Mrs. Mering said. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The table was not spread in the sickroom any more, as it had been for a while. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
But the most unsettling moments were neither fever dreams nor sickroom glimpses. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
She rested there for a while, then rose from the bed and returned to the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
When he had gone, Kleobis, who was in need of sleep, left me to tend the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The room, softly lighted by a lamp, looked like every sickroom at the hour of death. From Wordnik.com. [Another Study of a Woman] Reference
Machaon looked doubtful but followed Andromache to the sickroom and examined Helikaon. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
While he was talking to Hugh, Nathan Hornby came and was called into the sickroom also. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
A direct, continuous communication between the sickroom and out-of-doors is imperative. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Just before the funeral-bell began to toll, Mr. Axtell came again to the sickroom door. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
“And to rise so early to visit a sickroom … I cannot believe you wish to do this.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
"Momma, Daddy's sick, he smells bad," Sally said, peeking for a moment into the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Permission was given, and after a preliminary tap the bonnie face peeped into the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Tales] Reference
She was a plain girl with fair hair and warm brown eyes, and her smile lit up the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
Thank goodness the decision-making did not rest with any of the three people in that sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: End-of-Life Decisions: Medicare Is Already in the Room] Reference
The application of water in typhoid fever has secured for it a permanent place in the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
When I went upstairs into that sickroom, I marched blindfold into the clutches of a jealous woman. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
The old doctor delivered the message to Luther, and the next morning he appeared at the sickroom door. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
She had been sitting with a sick person, and from the hot, sickroom had passed out into the damp evening air. From Wordnik.com. [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference
"All moonshine, Noland, old boy," he exclaimed when he followed Elizabeth back to the sickroom a few minutes later. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Nothing was beneath her: she performed the most menial duties of the sickroom with a kind of fiery, inner gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
Morgan, who had been rather unwilling that serious subjects should be discussed in the sickroom, asked curiously one day. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
In fact, as soon as John entered the sickroom she went out, as one of the best ways she knew of to avoid accidents of conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
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