Alas, he was lying ill and semi-paralysed and not expected to recover, though that great man, whose reputation today has regrettably fallen, survived to die a more noble death in the Occupied Paris of 1941.

But she felt she couldn't stay and drink tea and then just go off, it wouldn't be right to be slaking her thirst and sitting here chatting with her mother lying ill wondering what had happened.

Faramir lies critically ill within the walls.

Harold is described as lying ill and in despair at Oxford.

Ms. Maddox begins in 1911, four months before the lunch in Nottingham, with the 26-year-old Lawrence lying seriously ill with pneumonia and being nursed by his devoted sister Ada.

Ruthie Crockett, who had lain pale and ill in bed all weekend, was gone on Monday morning.

I have known shame and grief and terror; I have lain cold and ill and sleepless; I have wandered roofless, hunted, threatened, mocked, beset by men and vice.

And our king lies gravely ill and Prince Felix has summoned the Council.

There's no one lying ill or injured here, all your injured have been moved- are you staying here to guard a dead Cardassian?

His latest book is "Chapman's Odyssey" (2011), in which the main character, Harry Chapman, in morphine-induced delirium, encounters characters from literature, writers, deceased friends and family members as he lies seriously ill in a London hospital.