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convalesce
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  • These were some of the thoughts Christian mulled over as he convalesced in Coronado while Adam, Austin (who was also assigned to SEAL Team FOUR), and most of the other graduates headed to Fort Benning, Georgia, for three weeks of airborne training before checking in at their respective teams.†   (source)
  • Doc, his legs peppered with shrapnel, had been evacuated to Guam and now he lay convalescing in a hospital in Honolulu.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER TWELVE FROM THE DAY I entered Reb Saunders' house to the day I left to go with my father to our cottage near Peekskill where he was to convalesce, I was a warmly accepted member of Danny's family.†   (source)
  • We used to hang out together in Spain in the early nineties when I was convalescing from your little firebomb.†   (source)
  • The hospital in which Zhivago convalesced and later served as a doctor, and which he was now preparing to leave, was housed in the former residence of Countess Zhabrinskaia.†   (source)
  • Some colleague of his was convalescing after a severe illness   (source)
  • Because of an administrative bungle, some soldiers were left to convalesce in the hospital.†   (source)
  • He told Blomkvist that he was on sick leave and was convalescing at a summer cabin up in Smadalarö.†   (source)
  • I'm light-headed, as if convalescing.†   (source)
  • Now he was convalescing at the military hospital in Krasnoyarsk, and his wife and two daughters had gone there to see him and to bring him home (the Tiverzins, hereditary railway workers, travelled all over Russia on official passes).†   (source)
  • They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed.†   (source)
  • Old Dr. Fontaine was convalescing slowly from an amputated arm.†   (source)
  • For instead of convalescing idly, as might have been expected, he plunged forthwith into rigorous self-discipline somewhat curiously combined with narcotic indulgence.†   (source)
  • We nurse the men and help the doctors and make bandages and clothes and when the men are well enough to leave the hospitals we take them into our homes to convalesce till they are able to go back in the army.†   (source)
  • When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally had it come.†   (source)
  • During all those times I'd thought he was convalescing in the grip of some misanthropic fit, was he instead far away from the ship, involved in some secret activity whose nature still eluded me?†   (source)
  • Now, there is this noteworthy difference between savage and civilized; that while a sick, civilized man may be six months convalescing, generally speaking, a sick savage is almost half-well again in a day.†   (source)
  • The leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone.†   (source)
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