sickroom

IPA: sˈɪkrum

Examples of "sickroom" in Sentences

The stench in his sickroom was intense.
But a sickroom was a sickroom, and illness had an odor.
He advised his readers to ventilate sickrooms and to seek fresh air in cities.
Blake obeyed, relief at being cast out of the sickroom evident in his rapid withdrawal.
But the sickroom was a different place now, when we had Allan's cheery visits to enliven our long evenings.
Yet, whereever the doctor may be in his fantasy, he is physically in the sickroom, confronting a parient and a wound.
Without the breeze, Ali noticed for the first time the pervasive sickroom odors that the fragrant ocean air had kept at bay.
We were all crowded into the little study, which I'd reluctantly surrendered as a "sickroom" when Sadd had announced his impending demise.
I make to bend to gather them, but I stop when I see Mother Celeste of Jesus come into the sickroom holding a lit candle, followed by the other nuns.
A long-faced nurse in a sickroom is a visible embodiment and presence of the disease against which the eager life of the patient is fighting in agony.