1764. Foote, Mayor of G., I. Wks. 1799, I. 173. You are a lazy lie-a-bed.
1832. W. Irving, Alhambra (1851), 249. 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, xlviii. What has made a lark of such a lie-a-bed?
