A church was built in her honour, and the afflicted pilgrims were accommodated in a sickroom built next to the church. |
A pot of tisane was simmering on the hearth, filling the air with that peculiar odor which tells of a sickroom. |
Watching the two of them should be easier than nursing half the sickroom, surely. |
In a moment they were standing in a dim sickroom, lit by three or four sulfur candles placed here and there, reeking with disinfectant. |
I was rung from the college to say he had turned up in the sickroom there and wasn't looking too flash. |
In fact, he was immobilized for at least eight weeks and when he left his sickroom he could only move around with difficulty. |