While he lay the worst weird, he would constantly have me by his pillow.
I am now reading Wuthering Heights and this sentence from that novel: Heathcliff was
dangerously sick; and while he lay at the worst he would have me constantly by his pillow : I suppose he felt I did a good deal for him, and he hadn’t wit to guess that I was compelled to do it.
What does “I have just been dropped” mean? The verb put down has no meaning and the worst thing is the direct object. It makes no sense in context. To lie, meaning to lie in bed ; how does reclining have such a comparative sense?
What are main reasons for not writing an article?
While he was in the worst stage of his illness, he wanted me to be constantly.
To lie, gives someone (Past form, lay) the position of laying or napping, which one would normally describe in this sentence. ” But the word has an additional meaning, one that predates that ordinary one, a meaning that OE can trace to 893: To
be or remain in a specified position of subjection, helplessness, misery, degradation, or captivity * This
connotation is preserved in the idiom lay open, in which the meaning of open is vulnerable or defenseless. From Archaeologia Graeca Or the Antiquities of Greece, Volume 2 by John Potter their Cities
were not fortified by Walls, but lay open to all the Invaders Back to
Heathcliff. Hemisphere: The passage describes Heathcliff (as well as Lemisphere) on his sickbed at the direst point in his illness.
* In a now-archaic usage, the word meant to languish in prison.
