Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

"MAKE SURE he stays bedfast for a while," Dr. Goodfellow told them at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Shadow]

And her father and mother, sister died with tuberculosis, set it on me and I was bedfast five months.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2002] Reference

Grandmother Krausa, although bedfast, occasionally insisted on being carried on inspection tours; somebody always suffered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizen Of The Galaxy]

It could easily be seen that if he continued very long in this condition, he would not only lose his mind but be bedfast and perhaps die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference

The style here is more emotive than Swift's, but in his deadpan explanatory notes ( "This is a rural English custom designed to eliminate aged and bedfast dependents") there is a Swiftian factuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Déjeuner sur l'Herbe] Reference

And one of the greatest men I ever met in my life was a fellow named Colonel Phil Hart, who later became a United States senator from the state of Michigan, who ran errands for all of us who were bedfast; who provided baseball tickets -- Detroit Tigers -- the Briggs family owned the Detroit Tigers then; his wife was a Briggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks At World War Ii Memorial Breakfast Reception] Reference

This was after two years of winter spells that left me bedfast every other weekend.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Strange Mind] Reference

My dear friend, Lois Fox, suffered a stroke and was bedfast in the Coshocton Hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [coshoctontribune.com - Local News] Reference

My daughter, who has always been interested in Asian culture and had taught herself some Japanese while she was bedfast, desperately wanted to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [MetaTalk] Reference

"Only thing I hope for now -- before I get bedfast or something -- say, take a look at the space between them south wings -- stand over this way a mite.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Twin] Reference

So there he was, bedfast for about three months; but, of course, he begun to enjoy his accident long before that -- almost as soon as he come to, in fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ma Pettengill] Reference

Jolicoeur has been bedfast for months in a Winter Garden nursing facility, said Assistant State Attorney Kyan Ware, and he requires a respirator to breathe.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

Mind you, in these casual observations as compiled by me while bedfast and here given utterance, I am not seeking to disparage possibly the noblest of professions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaking of Operations] Reference

The last few months of her life she was bedfast, but was tenderly nursed and cared for by Aunt Sophia Poulsen Johansen, her step-daughter and my father's half sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs]

Therefore staying the printer from proceeding, we came to Mr. George again, and fand him bedfast by his custom, and asking him how he did, 'Ever going the way of weilfare,' says he.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference

For these eight or ten months I have been ailing, sometimes bedfast and sometimes not; but these last three months I have been tortured with an excruciating rheumatism, which has reduced me to nearly the last stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Burns] Reference

The doctor vividly recalls a time in his young life when his welder father, suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis, became bedfast "and we had no income for six months, until Social Security disability payments began.".    From Wordnik.com.  [courierpress.com Stories] Reference

After his arrival at home, he put on his clothes every day for fifteen days, and after that lay bedfast for ten weeks until the day of his death, during which time the Lord was very merciful and gracious to him, both in an external and internal way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference

Mother's health, which was always poor, had gone almost completely away; she became almost bedfast for the remainder of her life and to add to our troubles, father, while assisting a neighbor to raise a house, had the misfortune to have his leg broken below the knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference

I really need to hear from others. bedfast, inopperable, incureable. 1st time here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference

Second, if you can’t be home all day to supervise and you suspect Betsy is opting for daytime freedom at the cost of being bedfast in the evening when you’re home, send her to school with the suggestion that when she feels ill she can ask to lie down in the nurse’s office until she recovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

Darned near bedfast I was!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference

On the 10th of January I became bedfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Samuel Spottford Clement Relating Interesting Experiences in Days of Slavery and Freedom] Reference

She had become bedfast when she was nineteen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag] Reference