Invalids
[in'vælidz]
Examples
- You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? Plato. The Republic.
- Then the two invalids were ordered to repose, which they did, by both sitting in one big chair and talking hard. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Such cases are very common, he said, with invalids of this sort. Plato. The Republic.
- But I have never been ill myself, so I am not much up to invalids' fancies. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But Sir Percival and his lordship declared that they were both willing to put up with inconvenience for the sake of the invalids. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We invalids think we are privileged people. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, Oh, do somebody go down quick! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The invalids improved rapidly, and Mr. March began to talk of returning early in the new year. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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