| 1. | "He's an invalid now," replied Herbert. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | He turned suddenly to the invalid and sai. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | An invalid lady had already lain down to sleep. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | with your invalid friend who has the absurd name. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | May I ask if it is in this house that your invalid friend Mr. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 6. | Ernest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend Mr. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 7. | which the invalid tossed down his throat without a moment's hesitation. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | "You treat me like an invalid or a child. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | There hasn't been a drop of medicine or a mouthful of invalid food for months here. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 10. | We invalids think we are privileged people.. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 11. | Several invalids were lingering near the low carriage, staring at the lady as though she were some curiosity. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 12. | Such cases are very common, he said, with invalids of this sort. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 13. | The country round is very lonely, but about half a mile to the north there is a small cluster of villas which have been built by a Tavistock contractor for the use of invalids and others who may wish to enjoy the pure Dartmoor air. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 14. | The Russian girl looked after Madame Stahl, and besides that, she was, as Kitty observed, on friendly terms with all the invalids who were seriously ill, and there were many of them at the springs, and looked after them in the most natural way. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 15. | You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperanc. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 16. | The English, who require, above everything, good living in order to be good soldiers, only eating salt meat and bad biscuit, had many invalids in their camp. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |