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Laid up

adjective

Ill and usually confined.

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"Laid up" Quotes from Famous Books

... tell. We only know that there is a force laid up here, set behind certain gates in the far past, upon which we may call for some supreme effort. But this much we also know: The Evil of the Shadow reaches out from here now, and where that darkness falls men will no longer be men but things in the guise of ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... a few hundred feet lower than the pass, where we had left our baggage and many of our men who were laid up with mountain sickness. ...

— An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor

... passed away, and winter came again. The fleet was laid up, and the useful and pleasant recreations of the club rooms were substituted for the active excitement of boating. Lectures were given, essays were read, debates held, every week; and the progress of the boys out of school, as well as within, was ...

— All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake - A Sequel to "The Boat Club" • Oliver Optic

... Vere was laid up for some months with his wounds. Among the officers who fought under him at Nieuport were several whose names were to become famous for the part they afterwards bore in the civil struggle in England. Among others were Fairfax, Ogle, Lambart, and ...

— By England's Aid • G. A. Henty

... work to attend to them. In the middle of the wheat harvest, when the grain was over-ripe and every hand was needed, he would stop to mend fences or to patch the harness; then dash down to the field and overwork and be laid up in bed for a week. The two boys balanced each other, and they pulled well together. They had been good friends since they were children. One seldom went anywhere, even to town, without ...

— O Pioneers! • Willa Cather

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