Sentence examples for a bedside vigil from inspiring English sources

According to the BBC, his family kept a bedside vigil, playing his favorite music.

Outside, most of the facing windows were still dark, only a small light here and there: an early worker, a mother with an infant, a bedside vigil.

As Mr. Wallace lay dying, his friends at the Wennerstrom house did not speak of the indictment as they held a bedside vigil.

One of Hiaasen's editors once described his decision to move down here as being akin to keeping a bedside vigil with a dying relative.

To hear Dr. Peter Praeger tell it, the genesis of his food company is a contemporary folk tale -- involving a rabbi's premonitions, a bedside vigil and gefilte fish -- and he is the central figure.

The six-hour operation did not go well: after weeks in which close family kept a bedside vigil, joined at times by senior officials, Mr Chávez returned home last month, to die on March 5th at the age of 58.To the end, Mr Chávez's rule was narcissistic, with country and constitution subordinated to his whim.

She tempers the supernatural visitations and baroque lexicon that have characterized her earlier work with an affecting skepticism, emerging from a lengthy bedside vigil with the epiphany "I made no wish, save being / Merely magical.

The 45-year-old German has his wife Corinna maintaining a constant bedside vigil, and the Schumacher family issued a statement earlier this week in which they thanked everyone for their support and tributes to the former Benetton, Ferrari and Mercedes driver.

Portuguese-style flame-grilled chicken somewhat loses its charm when there is a daily bedside vigil to be maintained.

Gibb's family, who have held a constant bedside vigil for him, have been playing his favourite music to try to rouse him.

He had been heavily sedated, and when he regained full consciousness after two weeks, his brother, John, his mother, Renata, and the dozens of firefighters who had also kept a kind of bedside vigil, began filling in the blanks.