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These inmates were Janet Smith and Nanny Nivison—the one old, and almost bedrid; the other young, and beautiful, and kind-hearted.

In vain did the poor bedrid woman try to comfort her daughter.

Does he not lie there as a perpetual lesson of despair, and type of bedrid valetudinarian impotence?

I'd knock a feller down 'at called me 'liar' to my face, even now, old an' bedrid' as I be.

I fall sick of sin, and am bedded and bedrid, buried and putrified in the practice of sin, and all this while have no presage, no pulse, no sense of my sickness.