She was no "lie-abed" in any case, and in her present nervous state she had to be up and doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

Mrs. Hazleton scolded her jestingly for late rising, and asked if she was always such a lie-abed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

With all this she was a little of a slattern, something more of a lie-abed, and, above all, a gossip of the first water; neglecting house, household, and every thing else, to loiter slipshod in the houses of her gossip neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

"You are no lie-abed at least," said the green gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Arden] Reference

'She was not wont to be a lie-abed; but she was well then.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

She wondered sleepily at his sprightliness, for as she remembered him at home he had been a confirmed lie-abed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Timber A Story of the Northwest] Reference

Holland, unlike France, is a lie-abed country, and at an hour when a French town would be astir and its streets already thronged with people hurrying to buy or sell at the greatest possible advantage, a Dutch city is still asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roden's Corner] Reference

Warham had made it forever impossible for her in any circumstances to become the typical luxuriously sheltered woman, whether legally or illegally kept -- the lie-abed woman, the woman who dresses only to go out and show off, the woman who wastes her life in petty, piffling trifles -- without purpose, without order or system, without morals or personal self-respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

"She was not wont to be a lie-abed; but she was well then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

I didn't expect you would have turned lie-abed this morning, of all the days in the year, Master Frank, "was his salutation on my entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil] Reference

But I will deal with the lie-abed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wheel O' Fortune] Reference

Not many mornings was he a lie-abed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

And lie-abed sluggards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?] Reference

Up, up, up, lie-abed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?] Reference