In a recumbent position on his bed, he found that time passed more swiftly.

"For a moment I found the recumbent position more comfortable," he remarked.

The test can also be performed with the patient in the lateral recumbent position.

It seemed to her that he was growing weary of his unchanging recumbent position.

Placing his hand around the being's neck he gently lowered it into a recumbent position.

But 3 o'clock came too soon: I'd just figured out how to sip my drink in a recumbent position.

A much debated disadvantage of the recumbent position is the effort required to ride up hills.

I won't burden you with it," said Carl, rising from his recumbent position.

She worked her way down to a recumbent position and felt the blanket being tucked around her.

"Er," he began, not used to addressing ladies from a recumbent position in their own beds.

As one they looked over their shoulders toward the mountain, invisible though it was from their recumbent position.

Perfect recovery is most likely with the body in a recumbent position, which relieves the muscles from any strain.

The song flowed on he waiting, listening, rising slowly and unconsciously from his recumbent position.

Each menstrual period, he added, should be endured in "the recumbent position" until the girls' systems could adjust to "the new order of life."

'Rest now,' Alfray said, taking his shoulders and easing him back to a recumbent position.

I had no desire, neither had I the strength, to move from my recumbent position.

One by one, beginning with Tom, the prisoners were taken up and placed in a recumbent position on the floor of the storeroom.

It is also called lateral recumbent position.

It is Brancusi-esque in its recumbent position.

I was tired out from fetching and carrying, too tired to be afraid of assuming a recumbent position.

The graveslab, featuring a small incised cross, would have been placed in a recumbent position over a burial.

Infants below 12 months are measured lying down (recumbent position) while children ages one to five are measured standing up.

And the mother, who is handicapped by inexperience and by the awkwardness of nursing in a recumbent position, often feels desperate.

The maneuver might be reinforced in a clinical setting by moving the patient's bed from a semi-recumbent position to a recumbent position with the legs raised.