My old lord lay long bedrid of the gout, and the wight I have described lived in an estate some few miles distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference

She had been bedrid ji yean - by their Mace-bearer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany] Reference

Not even Orthodoxy, bedrid as she seemed, but will have a hand in this confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid, and nearly insensible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference

Does he not lie there as a perpetual lesson of despair, and type of bedrid valetudinarian impotence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paras. 1-19] Reference

In another dormitory up stairs, we found ten or twelve bedrid women, one of them within a few months of completing the hundredth year of her age, but able to converse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852] Reference

As he has not only lost his government, but as he was bedrid while it was losing, these honours are a little ridiculed: we have too many governors that will expect titles, if losses are pretensions!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

The youngest Daughter Nanette had sunk under this pestilence, in the flower of her years; and whilst the second Daughter Luise lay like to die of the same, the Father also was laid bedrid with gout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference

The accusations, confined at first to Tituba and two other friendless women, one crazed, the other bedrid, presently included two female members of Parris 'church, in which, as in so many other churches, there had been some sharp dissensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference

Master Loomis had been eager to go to the war; but his mother was a poor bedrid woman, dependent on him for support, and all the dignitaries of the town combined in advising and urging him to stay at home for the sake of their children, as well as his mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference

In short, to finish this foolish story, I never saw a transaction in which appeared so little parts, abilities, or conduct; nor do I think there can be any thing weaker than the administration except it is the opposition: but an opposition, bedrid and tonguetied, is a most ridiculous body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Reform; bedrid this good while; with little but broken ballot-boxes, and tattered stripes of Benthamee Constitutions lying round him; and on the walls mere shadows of clothing-colonels, rates-in-aid, poor-law unions, defunct potato and the Irish difficulty, -- he does not seem long for this world, piping to that effect?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference

But should he exact the deed, when the weakness of a man's condition utterly disables him to perform it; should he command a bedrid person to stand or kneel, or require ten years 'practice of holiness from him that is to live but an hour, what could this be but to rank his commands amongst those unreasonable, tyrannical injunctions that will and require impossibilities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference

I thowt tha wur bedrid fur th 'rest o' thy days. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877] Reference

'at called me' liar 'to my face, even now, old an' bedrid 'as I be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brass Bound Box] Reference

Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rape of Lucrece] Reference

Luise: The Father bedrid with gout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference

A bedrid winter hang upon your cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little French Lawyer A Comedy] Reference

To her decrepit, sick and bedrid father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Labour's Lost] Reference

And leaves the bedrid mother in the lurch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II] Reference

Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rape of Lucrece] Reference

Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans; 975.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rape of Lucrece] Reference

I thowt tha wur bedrid fur th 'rest o' thy days.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story] Reference

And bedrid old man die. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

(Could any leave the bedrid wretch alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Leigh] Reference