"Bedside" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... explained that a woman relative living at the Langham Hotel had been taken suddenly ill, and had sent for him and his niece. Her condition had been so serious that they had remained with her all night, and his niece still was at her bedside. The driver of a four-wheeler, who for years had stood on the cab-rank in front of Gerridge's, had driven Pearsall to the Langham. This man was at the moment on the rank, and from him Ford learned what he most wished ...
— The Lost House • Richard Harding Davis
... grey man for whom she entertained privately a certain feeling of contempt. She was so sure her own husband would have somehow managed the case better. He came to the bedside, and looked at Stella, looked closely; then turned to her friend watching ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... still; the doctor and the nurse sat watching by the bedside; the firelight crept into the corners and whispered to the shadows: there was no ...
— The Silver Crown - Another Book of Fables • Laura E. Richards
... great Hebraist. Among the books were found a collection of Rabbinical writings, together with several of the Greek and Latin Fathers; and the physician succeeded in identifying so many passages with those taken down at the young woman's bedside, that no doubt could remain in any rational mind concerning the true origin of the impressions made ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... has taken lessons in informal oratory from Isocrates or one of his associates. Some of Menon's competitors (feeling themselves less eloquent) have actually a paid rhetorician whom they can take to the bedside of a stubborn invalid, to induce him by irrefutable arguments ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
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