We went into camp near Rienzi, July 22, sending back to the general field-hospital at Tuscumbia Springs all our sick -- a considerable number -- stricken down by the malarial influences around Booneville. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Slanger was a World War II nurse who, while in a field-hospital tent, had written a touching letter about American soldiers — then had been killed only an hour later. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He adds that the Irish contingent would go only if other EU member states contribute approximately 15 helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and field-hospital support. ❋ Richard (2007)
As political bromides pile up, a salute to Jim Hoagland, associate editor and chief foreign correspondent of the Washington Post, for picking up on a little-used play on an overused metaphor—biting the bullet—stemming from Civil War pre-anesthetic field-hospital use, now meaning “facing up to a painful decision.” ❋ William Safire (2004)
A nurse at the first field-hospital you came to, if you must know; an Earth-worker, as I told you'they can't seem to stay away from pursuing healing at the Front. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)
Those who could walk had walked in to where the little field-hospital of the regiment was established on the trail. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (1992)
I had assisted all day in bringing in the wounded from the field-hospital, in the rear of the battle-ground. ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)
In the early hours of the morning we came to a Boer field-hospital, and shouting out, 'Doctor and Predicant,' we entered and rested, and slept there awhile. ❋ Louis Creswicke (N/A)
A mile farther on I was deposited on the roadside, near the brigade field-hospital; and, completely exhausted, was carried into the yard of ❋ Edward A. Moore (N/A)
At Swinks Pan at 11.30 P.M. I was informed that, owing to all the ambulances having been used for taking the wounded to the train at Belmont, I had scarcely a field-hospital mounted officer, only three ambulances and three stretchers. ❋ Louis Creswicke (N/A)
At an improvised field-hospital I met the doctor, who vainly tried to prepare me for the horrid spectacle I was about to witness. ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)
There are circumstances generally attending the death of the soldier or the sailor, whether on battle-field or gun-deck, whether in the captives 'prison, the cockpit, or the field-hospital, which touch our sensibilities far more deeply than any circumstances which usually attend the death of men of any other class; moving within us mingled emotions of pathos and pity, of mystery and awe. ❋ Various (N/A)
About nine o'clock that evening, and before we had moved from our position, I received a message, through Captain Graham, from some of the wounded of our company, to go to them at their field-hospital. ❋ Edward A. Moore (N/A)
In the battles that followed, she was constantly under fire, now encouraging the men, and anon rescuing some wounded man from the place where he had fallen, administering restoratives and bringing him off to the field-hospital. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
He had been obliged to leave about ninety of his own men in the field-hospital which he had established near Trevilian, and these necessarily fell into the hands of the enemy. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
By way of retaliation for a heavy Turkish bombing raid on one of the dumps at Belah, where amongst other things a field-hospital had suffered severely, they collected about thirty machines and flew over to Gaza. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)
They did not seem to me at first sight the type of woman to be useful on a battlefield or in a field-hospital. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
