1764. Foote, Mayor of G., I. Wks. 1799, I. 173. You are a lazy lie-a-bed.
1832. W. Irving, Alhambra, II. 13. She was a little of a slattern, something more of a lie-a-bed, and, above all, a gossip of the first water.
1881. Blackmore, Christowell, III. xv. (1882), 226. What has made a lark, of such a lie-a-bed?
