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  • Brooks was laid on a stretcher, placed on a jeep, and driven to a rudimentary, one-room infirmary.†   (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)
  • "I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago," he says.†   (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)
  • Werner imagines twenty boys closing over Frederick's body like rats; he sees the fat, gleaming face of the commandant, throat spilling out of his collar, reclined like a king on some high-backed oak throne, while blood slowly fills the floor, rises past his ankles, past his knees ... Werner skips lunch and walks in a daze to the school's infirmary.†   (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)
  • No. He spent a week or so in the infirmary, recovering from a broken cheekbone.†   (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)
  • Thankfully, the Weapons Master forced him to swallow the antidote, though the Champion still had to be rushed to the castle infirmary.†   (source)
  • Langdon watched as Vittoria pulled out her cell phone and paged CERN's infirmary.†   (source)
  • They won't send you to the Infirmary, so don't even think about it, Moira said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I spun and caught the door before it closed, darting out of the infirmary.†   (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)
  • The door to the infirmary stayed shut, Strigan paying no attention.†   (source)
  • The wardens pointed out floors rotten from overflowing sewage, the sagging infirmary roof, the time-worn mattresses as thin as wafers.†   (source)
  • Medical personnel took Randy directly to the infirmary to ventilate him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Every street is a campsite and 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)
  • They marched our lines through the camp toward the Infirmary for sorting.†   (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)
  • She spent most of her day busy with the sewing workshop, the infirmary, and the schoolhouse.†   (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)
  • I went to the infirmary block.†   (source)
  • Then we were inside the infirmary, and lifted off the stretcher onto a bed.†   (source)
  • Clarke slipped through the flap of the designated infirmary tent and stepped into the clearing.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Pencil with an Ace bandage wrapped around it, with one a' them finger condoms from the infirmary over the whole deal.†   (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)
  • Lucius When Shay Bourne returned to I-tier after three days in the hospital infirmary, he was a man with a mission.†   (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)
  • Sitting up, Max gazed about the infirmary at the many beds and patients.†   (source)
  • His technician appeared and said, "Dr. Hall, we have Dr. Leavitt in the infirmary."†   (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)
  • The sergeant ordered two of his boys to carry the corporal to 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)
  • When I saw him he was coming out of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • With the camp director's permission, Natalie began seeing patients in the base's old infirmary.†   (source)
  • I'll have to go to the Infirmary and show Sister Martha.†   (source)
  • Isn't the Infirmary open yet?†   (source)
  • The captain unlocked the infirmary door and stepped inside.†   (source)
  • When I finally finished administering to the commander and returned to the infirmary there was no one there.†   (source)
  • Then he looked over at the infirmary, right at the spot on the wall where I was crouched, and he called to me and asked me what he should do.†   (source)
  • He's in the infirmary now, too weak to move.†   (source)
  • Amos had told me she was still in the infirmary, no change.†   (source)
  • Drew is missing, which means he's still in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I had to go to the camp infirmary to have the cut bandaged.†   (source)
  • Doors led to kitchen, bath, sleeping quarters, and what was obviously a small infirmary.†   (source)
  • He was inside an infirmary, lying on a soft mattress on an iron bed.†   (source)
  • Would you mind taking Professor Lockhart up to the infirmary, too?†   (source)
  • The sounds of Thurmond's infirmary faded in and out in uneven waves.†   (source)
  • I lifted the flask I'd taken from the infirmary and showed it to Kate.†   (source)
  • Anubis pointed at the door of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • He found himself lying in a private room in the CERN infirmary, his wheelchair beside the bed.†   (source)
  • Part Three — Benito Juárez Infirmary, Tomatlán, Mexico†   (source)
  • My first visit to Jaz in the infirmary had taken all my courage.†   (source)
  • Strigan shook her head, frustrated or exasperated, and went into her infirmary.†   (source)
  • The infirmary was off the main dispensary and examination room, just two beds divided by a curtain.†   (source)
  • I knew there was more to you than the quiet girl I met in the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • At the infirmary, Stanley Pillsbury lay with his bleeding leg hanging off his cot.†   (source)
  • Silently, Maximilian Kohler slipped out of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Avoiding the infirmary didn't mean escaping the net of cruelty Amon Goeth cast over the camp.†   (source)
  • Among the three of us we got the injured person into the house, into the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The infirmary was the nicest medical facility I'd ever been in, but that wasn't saying much.†   (source)
  • But I can't spare a man to escort you to the infirmary right now.†   (source)
  • He was plump and balding at his hairline—and a permanent fixture in the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • In the infirmary, Stanley Pillsbury lay in startled confusion.†   (source)
  • The infirmary scene began to dissolve, turning into a blurry watercolor.†   (source)
  • I knotted up all my things in a clean towel and listened at the infirmary door before I opened it.†   (source)
  • In winter, he hung blankets along the infirmary walls and scrounged up charcoal to heat the rooms.†   (source)
  • The Infirmary was only two stories, small ones.†   (source)
  • It was a short walk and stumble from the back of the Infirmary to the pebbled parking lot.†   (source)
  • At least let me get some medicine from the infirmary.†   (source)
  • "Hang on—" But the infirmary door swung open, and the currents of the Duat pulled me inside.†   (source)
  • Sometime that day, Louie went to the infirmary to help out.†   (source)
  • Or one of two, if the boy in the Infirmary was like me.†   (source)
  • I squeezed Jaz's hand, told her to get better soon, and left the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I nodded and let her push me outside of the dark room and into the dimmed hallway of the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • We were hurried into the bright lights and dry air of what a torn paper sign had labeled INFIRMARY.†   (source)
  • Her healing is proceeding so well that it is perfectly safe for her to leave the infirmary.†   (source)
  • You owe me at least three days of rest in the infirmary.†   (source)
  • She was a mere skeleton and survived just two days in the prison infirmary.†   (source)
  • Therefore, listen to me: leave the infirmary before the next selection!†   (source)
  • The five of us left the infirmary and walked into the snowy night.†   (source)
  • I've been stuck in the infirmary for, like, two days.†   (source)
  • The KGB man shrugged and waited for the infirmary door to close.†   (source)
  • But, he recalled, now they didn't let you lie in bed even in the camp infirmary.†   (source)
  • Now he followed Enoch out of the infirmary hall and into a narrower, white-plastered corridor.†   (source)
  • As he entered the infirmary, he felt guilty.†   (source)
  • She lost her enthusiasm for the school, the infirmary, and even her ceramic creches.†   (source)
  • Clarke stiffened and, without a word, headed back toward the infirmary.†   (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)
  • With Crash back in solitary, and Joey in the infirmary, I-tier was oddly quiet.†   (source)
  • "I will sce Aspirant Veturius," a quarrelsome voice says from the hallway outside the infirmary.†   (source)
  • True, the infirmary was very small, and if new patients were to arrive, room would have to be made.†   (source)
  • Thomas didn't even consider going to see his father in the infirmary in Madras before he sailed.†   (source)
  • Let's get her to the infirmary," Neferet told me.†   (source)
  • They reached the nurse's infirmary door and went inside.†   (source)
  • She was too weak to make it out of the infirmary tent on her own.†   (source)
  • I mean, it's easier to just pretend you're going to the infirmary, so that I wouldn't freak out.†   (source)
  • Grandfather, unusually silent, walks with me to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The boy assigned to stand guard outside the infirmary tent had fallen asleep.†   (source)
  • When his eyes tired, he went diffidently to the infirmary, hoping no one would throw him out.†   (source)
  • Actually, being in the infirmary was not bad at all: we were entitled to good bread, a thicker soup.†   (source)
  • Then he had a seizure and got transferred to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • We've got room service and I'll ring the infirmary for a nurse.†   (source)
  • What else happened while I was at the infirmary?†   (source)
  • after the war, I learned the fate of those who had remained at the infirmary.†   (source)
  • You should be in your quarters or at the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Weren't you outside the infirmary last night?†   (source)
  • I fled to the other end of the infirmary, where I found Dr. Sorkis.†   (source)
  • Don't return to the school until evening, and don't come back to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • You'll meet me at the infirmary shortly.†   (source)
  • "I spend most of the day in the infirmary tent, anyway," she said curtly.†   (source)
  • By the time night falls, the infirmary is quiet, occupied by bodies and ghosts.†   (source)
  • I told her, "I think it is this evening, K, that he will come to the infirmary."†   (source)
  • Though I'm desperate to know if Hel is all right, I resist the urge to go to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Ordered the legionnaires to haul you to the infirmary.†   (source)
  • TWO MORE WHOLE DAYS I had, before I saw the black flag raised upon the tilted pole of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • I will affix it on the front of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • When we reach the infirmary doors, they open, and the Commandant emerges.†   (source)
  • I was lying on a cot in the empty infirmary, where she was watching over me.†   (source)
  • I've been stuck in the infirmary for days.†   (source)
  • "Slaves are forbidden from seeking treatment in the infirmary," Izzi whispers from behind us.†   (source)
  • "Resume your duties," he muttered, turning to go back inside the infirmary.†   (source)
  • The other eighteen lie in the back room of the infirmary, cold beneath thin white sheets.†   (source)
  • I know I'm in the infirmary because it's the only place in all of Blackcliff with white walls.†   (source)
  • I don't remember how I arrive at the infirmary.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He passes the infirmary along the way.†   (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)
  • But white-hot triumph races through me at the thought of Drew in the infirmary, and I squeeze Four's arm.†   (source)
  • "This will be a bit of a shock," said Professor McGonagall in a surprisingly gentle voice as they approached the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Or he might know about the bottle of ipecac he stole from the infirmary while pretending to flirt with Risa.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When I heard what had happened, I promised myself no matter what, I would never go to the infirmary again.†   (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)
  • We're taking no more chances," Madam Pomfrey told them severely through a crack in the infirmary door.†   (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)
  • We left the infirmary, the girl apparently not even aware of my presence, or Seivarden's, where she still lay on her pallet.†   (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)
  • The woman made an affirmative gesture, and she and the girl rose and went into the infirmary without another word.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon I was off duty, so I went to the infirmary to see how the balloon pilot was making out.†   (source)
  • Strigan came out of the infirmary, undercoat bloody, and the girl and her mother, who had been talking quietly in a language I didn't understand, fell silent and looked expectantly to her.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • My acceleration slowed, and when the mist dissipated, I was back in Brooklyn House, floating just outside the infirmary door.†   (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)
  • I left the magic Bullwinkle scroll with Carter, who wouldn't even talk to me, then checked on Jaz in the infirmary and found her still in a coma.†   (source)
  • The infirmary evaporated.†   (source)
  • I had a sudden, sharp memory of the last time I had been in the Infirmary, and the way his picture had seemed to watch me.†   (source)
  • The infirmary was on B-deck.†   (source)
  • When they faded again, I was in a much different room in the Infirmary, this one all blue tiles and beeping monitors.†   (source)
  • Max—Matthew—whatever—from the Infirmary, and he was looking far better than I felt as he slept on.†   (source)
  • The woman was the youngest doctor I'd ever seen in Thurmond—though admittedly I could count my trips to the Infirmary on one hand.†   (source)
  • "They're always in danger," I said, and wondered if she had stepped a single foot beyond the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • He didn't try to hide his annoyance as I hobbled after him, but he didn't need to worry; you couldn't have paid me to stay in the Infirmary, not while I was conscious.†   (source)
  • The cabin was dark and damp, the usual smell of mold clung to every surface, but I would have taken that over the Infirmary's clean, sterile stench any day.†   (source)
  • Trust me, if we could have done it any other way we would have, but we needed something serious enough for the PSFs to actually bring you back to the Infirmary.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To the infirmary.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He was in the infirmary on Level IV.†   (source)
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