Bedside
['bedsaɪd] or ['bɛd'saɪd]
Definition
(noun.) space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person); 'the doctor stood at her bedside'.
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Definition
(n.) The side of a bed.
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Examples
- I had heard them, alone at the bedside, striking their boots with their riding-whips, and loitering up and down. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The table stood in the same place, close by the bedside, and on it, in its real proportions and appearance, was the shape so often repeated. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mr. Crawley had tended that otherwise friendless bedside. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As Louisa feigned to rouse herself, and sat up, Sissy retired, so that she stood placidly near the bedside. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- When I returned to the bedside of the young woman, I found her raving in precisely the same order of continuity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His lordship has often watched my sleep in the cold, for half, nay sometimes, during the whole of the night, sitting by my bedside. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In his last illness, he had it brought continually to his bedside; and but an hour before he died, he bound me by vow to keep the creature. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Jo started up, revived the blaze, and crept to the bedside, hoping Beth slept. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When I entered the bedchamber, and softly approached the bedside by the dim flicker of the night-lamp, my wife was asleep. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At last she went to the baby's bedside. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She moved to a little distance from the bedside. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She knelt down and prayed by his bedside, as he did too, having still hold of her hand. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yielding, therefore, the chair at the bedside to the quaint old housekeeper, Volumnia sits at a table a little removed, sympathetically sighing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Herbert, coming to my bedside when he came in,--for I went straight to bed, dispirited and fatigued,--made the same report. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I suppose it was,' replied Oliver, 'because heaven is a long way off; and they are too happy there, to come down to the bedside of a poor boy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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