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  • Ron said to Harry as they left the infirmary and started up the stairs toward Gryffindor Tower.†   (source)
  • "We got"—he looked toward the ceiling, counting mentally— "thirty-eight people up here now, plus four on the ground floor in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, I—a Rostov— found myself flirting with the notion of inventing an illness and checking into the infirmary—†   (source)
  • Mr. Okamoto admitted to me that they were very tired when they arrived at the Benito Juarez Infirmary in Tomatlán, which is not at all in Baja California but a hundred kilometres south of Puerto Vallarta, in the state of Jalisco, nearly level with Mexico City.†   (source)
  • "I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago," he says.†   (source)
  • That building set off to the side there is the Best of Health Center, which is what we call the infirmary, and the building way on up that path is the gym.†   (source)
  • Earlier that evening my friend Yossel and I had carried an elderly woman on a stretcher to the ghetto infirmary, but we had made a dangerous miscalculation.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, the Weapons Master forced him to swallow the antidote, though the Champion still had to be rushed to the castle infirmary.†   (source)
  • Dan Needham described Mr. Tubulari as "already senseless, before his fall," but the track-and-field coach severely sprained his ankle in the mishap and had to be carried to the Hubbard Infirmary.†   (source)
  • Langdon watched as Vittoria pulled out her cell phone and paged CERN's infirmary.†   (source)
  • Werner skips lunch and walks in a daze to the school's infirmary.†   (source)
  • The wardens pointed out floors rotten from overflowing sewage, the sagging infirmary roof, the time-worn mattresses as thin as wafers.†   (source)
  • They won't send you to the Infirmary, so don't even think about it, Moira said.†   (source)
  • In pain, half starved, with a tapeworm and an eye infection, he collapsed on the road to town and was taken to the infirmary by a kindly widow.†   (source)
  • No. He spent a week or so in the infirmary, recovering from a broken cheekbone.†   (source)
  • Call Argus to bring her to the infirmary, if you'd like.†   (source)
  • I got trampled in a stall and broke my shoulder and there I was in the infirmary with this view of the empty driveway and no car coming up it.†   (source)
  • Half my men got frostbite, the other half suffered from hypothermia, and by the time we finished, my squad was reduced to just three or four men, all of whom ended up in the infirmary once we got back to base.†   (source)
  • We spent nineteen days in the infirmary, swallowing a variety of specialized poisons, since we had intestinal parasites, fungus growing on our feet and forearms, and more than the usual degree of malaria.†   (source)
  • I spun and caught the door before it closed, darting out of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Every street is a campsite and infirmary.†   (source)
  • America Vicuna, in the grip of mortal depression because she had failed her final examinations, had drunk a flask of laudanum stolen from the school infirmary.†   (source)
  • Clarke slipped through the flap of the designated infirmary tent and stepped into the clearing.†   (source)
  • During Lent, they noted no meat passed my lips, not even a steaming broth when a bad catarrh confined me to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Patients will stay in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I want her to say she's assigned to the kitchens or the infirmary, where slaves aren't scarred or missing body parts.†   (source)
  • Her healing is proceeding so well that it is perfectly safe for her to leave the infirmary.†   (source)
  • They marched our lines through the camp toward the Infirmary for sorting.†   (source)
  • "Pencil with an Ace bandage wrapped around it, with one a' them finger condoms from the infirmary over the whole deal."†   (source)
  • Medical personnel took Randy directly to the infirmary to ventilate him.†   (source)
  • By this point, Vosch has figured out why Jumbo's implant is on this aircraft while its owner is in the infirmary being treated for a very bad headache.†   (source)
  • She spent most of her day busy with the sewing workshop, the infirmary, and the schoolhouse.†   (source)
  • She'd come to Addis Ababa from England after getting restless teaching in a convent school and running the student infirmary; she'd accepted a post with Sudan Interior Mission to work in Harrar, Ethiopia.†   (source)
  • Lucius When Shay Bourne returned to I-tier after three days in the hospital infirmary, he was a man with a mission.†   (source)
  • The door to the infirmary stayed shut, Strigan paying no attention.†   (source)
  • Hall, we have Dr. Leavitt in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • To the infirmary.†   (source)
  • To be more accurate, the mat drills were awful, and to say that you love them should put you first in line to see the psychologist at the campus infirmary.†   (source)
  • Sitting up, Max gazed about the infirmary at the many beds and patients.†   (source)
  • When I saw him he was coming out of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • He treated the same man soon thereafter in the infirmary, in fact saving his life with some quick surgical work in relieving the building pressure of blood on the brain.†   (source)
  • Recalled being stretched on a table in infirmary at Complex, staring up at a light and listening to a voice while a drug dripped into my veins.†   (source)
  • With the camp director's permission, Natalie began seeing patients in the base's old infirmary.†   (source)
  • The sergeant ordered two of his boys to carry the corporal to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I'll have to go to the Infirmary and show Sister Martha.†   (source)
  • Isn't the Infirmary open yet?†   (source)
  • He's in the infirmary now, too weak to move.†   (source)
  • Avoiding the infirmary didn't mean escaping the net of cruelty Amon Goeth cast over the camp.†   (source)
  • The flames engulfing the sides of the infirmary tent ….†   (source)
  • Drew is missing, which means he's still in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Would you mind taking Professor Lockhart up to the infirmary, too?†   (source)
  • I knotted up all my things in a clean towel and listened at the infirmary door before I opened it.†   (source)
  • He was inside an infirmary, lying on a soft mattress on an iron bed.†   (source)
  • He found himself lying in a private room in the CERN infirmary, his wheelchair beside the bed.†   (source)
  • I had to go to the camp infirmary to have the cut bandaged.†   (source)
  • At the infirmary, Stanley Pillsbury lay with his bleeding leg hanging off his cot.†   (source)
  • She was too weak to make it out of the infirmary tent on her own.†   (source)
  • Silently, Maximilian Kohler slipped out of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • At least let me get some medicine from the infirmary.†   (source)
  • In the infirmary, Stanley Pillsbury lay in startled confusion.†   (source)
  • The infirmary was off the main dispensary and examination room, just two beds divided by a curtain.†   (source)
  • "I spend most of the day in the infirmary tent, anyway," she said curtly.†   (source)
  • In winter, he hung blankets along the infirmary walls and scrounged up charcoal to heat the rooms.†   (source)
  • "Weren't you outside the infirmary last night?†   (source)
  • "But I can't spare a man to escort you to the infirmary right now.†   (source)
  • Clarke stiffened and, without a word, headed back toward the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Sometime that day, Louie went to the infirmary to help out.†   (source)
  • I lifted the flask I'd taken from the infirmary and showed it to Kate.†   (source)
  • The boy assigned to stand guard outside the infirmary tent had fallen asleep.†   (source)
  • Amos had told me she was still in the infirmary, no change.†   (source)
  • You owe me at least three days of rest in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Then we were inside the infirmary, and lifted off the stretcher onto a bed.†   (source)
  • Doors led to kitchen, bath, sleeping quarters, and what was obviously a small infirmary.†   (source)
  • The KGB man shrugged and waited for the infirmary door to close.†   (source)
  • The sounds of Thurmond's infirmary faded in and out in uneven waves.†   (source)
  • My first visit to Jaz in the infirmary had taken all my courage.†   (source)
  • As he entered the infirmary, he felt guilty.†   (source)
  • But, he recalled, now they didn't let you lie in bed even in the camp infirmary.†   (source)
  • Let's get her to the infirmary," Neferet told me.†   (source)
  • Now he followed Enoch out of the infirmary hall and into a narrower, white-plastered corridor.†   (source)
  • She lost her enthusiasm for the school, the infirmary, and even her ceramic creches.†   (source)
  • When we reach the infirmary doors, they open, and the Commandant emerges.†   (source)
  • I mean, it's easier to just pretend you're going to the infirmary, so that I wouldn't freak out.†   (source)
  • The captain unlocked the infirmary door and stepped inside.†   (source)
  • They reached the stairs that led to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • If you need me my office is in the same wing as the infirmary?'†   (source)
  • "I've been stuck in the infirmary for, like, two days.†   (source)
  • She was a mere skeleton and survived just two days in the prison infirmary.†   (source)
  • I squeezed Jaz's hand, told her to get better soon, and left the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The five of us left the infirmary and walked into the snowy night.†   (source)
  • I knew there was more to you than the quiet girl I met in the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • Then he had a seizure and got transferred to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • When his eyes tired, he went diffidently to the infirmary, hoping no one would throw him out.†   (source)
  • By the time night falls, the infirmary is quiet, occupied by bodies and ghosts.†   (source)
  • They reached the nurse's infirmary door and went inside.†   (source)
  • I will affix it on the front of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Strigan shook her head, frustrated or exasperated, and went into her infirmary.†   (source)
  • The infirmary was the nicest medical facility I'd ever been in, but that wasn't saying much.†   (source)
  • Thomas didn't even consider going to see his father in the infirmary in Madras before he sailed.†   (source)
  • We've got room service and I'll ring the infirmary for a nurse.†   (source)
  • He was plump and balding at his hairline—and a permanent fixture in the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • With Crash back in solitary, and Joey in the infirmary, I-tier was oddly quiet.†   (source)
  • Among the three of us we got the injured person into the house, into the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I told her, "I think it is this evening, K, that he will come to the infirmary."†   (source)
  • Ordered the legionnaires to haul you to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I fled to the other end of the infirmary, where I found Dr. Sorkis.†   (source)
  • The Infirmary was only two stories, small ones.†   (source)
  • I was lying on a cot in the empty infirmary, where she was watching over me.†   (source)
  • "I will sce Aspirant Veturius," a quarrelsome voice says from the hallway outside the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Anubis pointed at the door of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I don't remember how I arrive at the infirmary.†   (source)
  • TWO MORE WHOLE DAYS I had, before I saw the black flag raised upon the tilted pole of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The infirmary scene began to dissolve, turning into a blurry watercolor.†   (source)
  • It was a short walk and stumble from the back of the Infirmary to the pebbled parking lot.†   (source)
  • Or one of two, if the boy in the Infirmary was like me.†   (source)
  • But the infirmary door swung open, and the currents of the Duat pulled me inside.†   (source)
  • Don't return to the school until evening, and don't come back to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • "Resume your duties," he muttered, turning to go back inside the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I nodded and let her push me outside of the dark room and into the dimmed hallway of the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • You should be in your quarters or at the infirmary.†   (source)
  • "I've been stuck in the infirmary for days."†   (source)
  • I know I'm in the infirmary because it's the only place in all of Blackcliff with white walls.†   (source)
  • You'll meet me at the infirmary shortly."†   (source)
  • We were hurried into the bright lights and dry air of what a torn paper sign had labeled INFIRMARY.†   (source)
  • Grandfather, unusually silent, walks with me to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • What else happened while I was at the infirmary?†   (source)
  • "Slaves are forbidden from seeking treatment in the infirmary," Izzi whispers from behind us.†   (source)
  • Though I'm desperate to know if Hel is all right, I resist the urge to go to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The other eighteen lie in the back room of the infirmary, cold beneath thin white sheets.†   (source)
  • They were resting up in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The two had cots next to each other in the infirmary, which I found a little suspicious, even though they kept sniping at each other whenever they knew they were being watched.†   (source)
  • Just because Beckendorf was a nice guy didn't mean he wouldn't send us both to the infirmary if we let our guard down.†   (source)
  • He described the village for the infected as a huge set of rings within rings, with all the communal areas—cafeteria, infirmary, recreation facilities—located in the middle and then row upon row of poorly built housing encircling them.†   (source)
  • We'd turned the lobby of our building into a makeshift infirmary by dragging some mattresses down from the empty apartments and laying them on the floor.†   (source)
  • Or he might know about the bottle of ipecac he stole from the infirmary while pretending to flirt with Risa.†   (source)
  • Mostly I splinted arms, distributed cold medicine and tissues, and tried to keep Harley from stealing the infirmary's entire supply of smiley-face stickers, which he plastered all over his flamethrower.†   (source)
  • PA R T T H R E E Benito Juárez Infirmary, Tomatlán, Mexico C H A PT E R 9 5 Mr. Tomohiro Okamoto, of the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport, now retired, told me that he and his junior colleague at the time, Mr. Atsuro Chiba, were in Long Beach, California—the American western seaboard's main container port, near L.A.—on unrelated business when they were advised that a lone survivor of the Japanese ship Tsimtsum, which had vanished without a trace in Pacific…†   (source)
  • There were photographs on the wall of his office in the Hubbard Infirmary—they were old black-and-white photographs of the clockfaces on the church spires in Zurich; and photographs of the water birds in the Limmat, and of the people feeding the birds from those funny, arched footbridges.†   (source)
  • But white-hot triumph races through me at the thought of Drew in the infirmary, and I squeeze Four's arm.†   (source)
  • We're taking no more chances," Madam Pomfrey told them severely through a crack in the infirmary door.†   (source)
  • The headmaster was confined to the Hubbard Infirmary for the remainder of the day; the nurses, and the school doctor, wanted to keep him—for observation—overnight, but the headmaster threatened to fire all of them if he was not released.†   (source)
  • He passes the infirmary along the way.†   (source)
  • To her dismay, Kohler had apparently survived his trip to the infirmary; he had phoned and demanded-not asked, demanded-that Sylvie stay late this evening.†   (source)
  • So the instant Risa gets back to the infirmary, she calls for a messenger, and another and another, sending them each off with redundant notes reminding kids to take their medications.†   (source)
  • When I heard what had happened, I promised myself no matter what, I would never go to the infirmary again.†   (source)
  • "This will be a bit of a shock," said Professor McGonagall in a surprisingly gentle voice as they approached the infirmary.†   (source)
  • We had waited too long at the infirmary with her before heading home and had stayed out past the evening curfew, the hour when all Jews had to be off the streets.†   (source)
  • Sylvie had decided to ignore the antics as yet another Kohlerian melodrama, but she began to get concerned when Kohler failed to return at the proper time for his daily injections; the director's physical condition required regular treatment, and when he decided to push his luck, the results were never pretty-respiratory shock, coughing fits, and a mad dash by the infirmary personnel.†   (source)
  • I learned later the commandant of Plaszow, SS Hauptsturmfiihrer Amon Goeth, had entered the infirmary shortly after I had left and shot all the patients, just shot every single one of them for no reason except that he felt like it.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon I was off duty, so I went to the infirmary to see how the balloon pilot was making out.†   (source)
  • Louie and Phil stayed in the infirmary for two days, attended by Japanese who cared for them with genuine concern for their comfort and health.†   (source)
  • He could just make out the shape of the infirmary tent where Clarke would be giving Thalia the long-awaited medicine.†   (source)
  • Someone running by the infirmary saw Pillsbury, hurried in, threw him on a stretcher, and dragged him into a tiny cement building where the other wounded had been taken.†   (source)
  • I hurried past it and through the deserted corridors of B-Deck, past the staterooms and lounges toward the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The long lashes that made her look so innocent when she was sleeping in the infirmary tent now lent a feral gleam to her enormous blue eyes.†   (source)
  • I'll try to get into the infirmary."†   (source)
  • Worn out from the mission and hours spent helping at the infirmary, Louie walked to a grove of coconut trees where there were tents that served as barracks.†   (source)
  • The infirmary was on B-deck.†   (source)
  • Just then, Clarke emerged from the infirmary tent and walked toward the campfire, her eyes skimming the circle as she searched for a spot.†   (source)
  • Bellamy had spent the night unable to sleep, watching the infirmary tent in order to make damn sure no one got anywhere near his sister.†   (source)
  • He wrapped his arm around his trembling sister and led her toward the infirmary tent, a grim determination overtaking him.†   (source)
  • The tension in the infirmary tent was so thick, Clarke could practically feel it pressing against her chest when she breathed.†   (source)
  • But Wells held her tight, forcing her to watch helplessly as fire engulfed the infirmary fewer than a hundred meters away.†   (source)
  • But as they approached the clearing, all thoughts of the kiss were pushed aside by the shadowy outline of the infirmary tent.†   (source)
  • Clarke sat in the dark infirmary tent, watching nervously as Thalia tossed and turned in her sleep, restless from the fever that set in as the infection grew worse.†   (source)
  • The flames on the top of the infirmary tent rose higher, the sides collapsing toward each other, as if the fire were inhaling the tent and everything inside of it.†   (source)
  • Wells sighed as he turned to look around the clearing, the flames flickering on the dark forms of the three tents they'd finally built—the infirmary, a structure to hold supplies, and Wells's personal favorite, a ditch for collecting water, in case it ever rained.†   (source)
  • Without a word to the Arcadian boy standing guard outside, Clarke hurried out of the infirmary and began to walk toward the trees, not bothering to grab anything from the supply tent lest she attract any unwanted attention.†   (source)
  • -at first thought it was me on the stage, in the light, but before he could get to the police he was hurt in the crowd and taken to the infirmary-†   (source)
  • He was sitting on the edge of the infirmary bed, one of a line of white-sheeted cots that ran the length of the long room.†   (source)
  • Sims spent three weeks in the infirmary and was released by a parole board sympathetic to what he'd been through.†   (source)
  • He'd spent the last couple of days in the infirmary, and they'd only let him out this morning, partly so that he could attend Valentine's funeral.†   (source)
  • As the sickened spectators bent their heads and reporters rushed to get word to their editors, Neves's body was carried into the track infirmary and parked on a table.†   (source)
  • In the infirmary he had been taking rattling breaths while his third in command, Bat, had unpacked the healing kit.†   (source)
  • He was carried to the track infirmary.†   (source)
  • After the third fall, orderlies strapped them to litters and rushed them to the infirmary, where the Institute had hired four extra nurses for the night.†   (source)
  • He and I were sitting in the first two chairs outside the goddam infirmary, the day school opened, waiting for our physicals, and we sort of struck up this conversation about tennis.†   (source)
  • He went to the improvised infirmary to get a package of cotton and found some handkerchiefs, but it was soon clear that they were insufficient.†   (source)
  • The next morning when the nurse at the infirmary brought him his breakfast, she found Poteete hanging from one of the heating pipesthat traversed the ceiling of his room.†   (source)
  • He invented jobs in and around the infirmary for all the patients who could stand on their feet--fencing the garden, laying paths, bringing soil to the flowerbeds, and, in wintertime, erecting snow barriers.†   (source)
  • I don't need to be in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The arched ceiling of the infirmary was blue, painted with a rococo pattern of cherubs trailing gold ribbons, and white drifting clouds.†   (source)
  • Come to the infirmary when we get back to school and I'll give you some salve that will lessen the sting from your wounds:' She patted his cheek and he blushed bright red.†   (source)
  • He was in the infirmary on Level IV.†   (source)
  • The son of Apollo spent most of his time in the infirmary, but whenever Nico saw him running across camp to fetch more medical supplies or make a house call on some wounded demigod, he felt a strange twinge of melancholy.†   (source)
  • The girl had to awaken early like everybody else, take a cold bath, and do her chores, which included teaching in the schoolhouse, sewing in the workshop, and seeing to all the work of the infirmary, from giving enemas to suturing wounds with a needle and thread from the sewing basket, with no reprieve when she fainted at the sight of blood or broke out in a cold sweat when she had to wipe up someone's vomit.†   (source)
  • As can happen only in camps, Stepan Grigorych had advised Vdovushkin to describe himself as a medical assistant, and had taken him on at the infirmary and taught him to make intravenous injections on ignorant prisoners, to whose innocent minds it could never occur that Vdovushkin wasn't a medical assistant at all.†   (source)
  • Later, I remembered so many weird things about the short trip from the rec hall to the infirmary—how it was snowing heavily, but that it seemed none of the flakes touched us.†   (source)
  • Before the double doors of the infirmary stood the parchment-robed figure of a Silent Brother, hands folded, face cast down in a meditative stance.†   (source)
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