Those that remain are the slow-witted, or those who are tied in a measure by family difficulties-as a bedridden mother to attend to; or, perhaps, an illegitimate child of her own may fetter the cottage girl.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Two years ago the elder sister tumbled down-stairs and injured her spine; and since then she had been bedridden, lying in the upper room at the back of the house, with nothing to amuse her but a view of the graveyard behind the church.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
11,563. Your mother is an old-woman and bedridden?
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie