Definition of "convalescent" recovering one 's health and strength after a period of illness quotations examples
Quotations So soon as Lady Anne was pronounced convalescent by the medical men , she insisted on discharging "that odious woman ," the nurse ,...
1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 282
"Mid -Lent , and the Enemy grins ," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children . Austin , knee -deep in a dozen Sunday supplements , refused to stir ; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe , but still unsteady on her legs ; her maid had taken the grippe , and now moaned all day : "Mon dieu ! Mon dieu ! Che fais mourir !"
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company