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  • And so he ran down and tried to resuscitate him.†   (source)
  • He created citywide plans for Cleveland, San Francisco, and Manila and led the turn-of-the-century effort to resuscitate and expand L'Enfant's vision of Washington, D.C. In each case he worked without a fee.†   (source)
  • Suppose it was something else ...' " 'And then, when he'd felt the resuscitation of his strength, just enough perhaps to have sustained him to the road, somewhere along that road he found someone.†   (source)
  • We're resuscitating him now.†   (source)
  • Awakened with this news, Hunt immediately tore open the bag, commenced cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and summoned Dr. Larry Silver, one of the volunteers working at the HRA clinic.†   (source)
  • When he came outside again, Donna was still administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to their dead son.†   (source)
  • Resuscitating old terrors was painful for Roran, but he at least had the pleasure of seeing Jeod exhibit unfeigned astonishment as he heard about how the villagers had rousted the soldiers and Ra'zac from their camp, the siege of Carvahall thereafter, Sloan's treachery, Katrina's kidnapping, how Roran had convinced the villagers to flee, and the hardships of their journey to Teirm.†   (source)
  • Heinrich was still awake, sitting on the floor, fully dressed, his back to the wall, reading a Red Cross resuscitation manual.†   (source)
  • Once they resuscitated her at the hospital, the police found some outstanding bad-check warrants, so she'd had to choose: rehab or jail.†   (source)
  • The motto of those pioneers of resuscitation, the Royal Humane Society, resounded in his ears: Lateat scintillula forsan—a small spark may perhaps be hidden.†   (source)
  • There is no chance for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, as was attempted when Lincoln lay dying on the floor of his Ford's Theatre box.†   (source)
  • A paramedic decided that the bodies would not be taken to hospital for resuscitation.†   (source)
  • Farmer wrote to me, about the blocked loans: "I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it."†   (source)
  • Intubating him isn't the same as resuscitating him, then?†   (source)
  • Except that surely the casualty team wouldn't keep arguing about the best way to resuscitate the patient?†   (source)
  • "But I have a feeling if there's anyone in the world who can resuscitate the victim," he goes on in his deep, quiet voice—which sounds even deeper and quieter in the stillness of the long attic—"it's you."†   (source)
  • He rushes within, fumbles with the handcuffs and unlocks them, raises the body to a sitting position while he tries to give resuscitation.†   (source)
  • So that was not only the end of his life, but the end of any possible resuscitation of This I Believe.†   (source)
  • With this we are able to incubate and resuscitate any species whose reappearance is considered desirable.†   (source)
  • And that piece of filth you're trying to resuscitate—I suggest you get rid of him before he starts to rot.†   (source)
  • If I weren't I would've cut him down and tried to resuscitate him.†   (source)
  • There were faint burn marks on her chest where the resuscitating team had worked on her, a light bruising on the back of her hand where the IV had pinched.†   (source)
  • Kate lay amid the solemn monitoring and resuscitation equipment in the close quarters of the rescue ambulance.†   (source)
  • She dropped to her knees, and while I fanned away yellow jackets with peach branch leaves, she gave Jim Ed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.†   (source)
  • I was bothered by a single thought when I tried to resuscitate my images of Al Durrell: It was easy to imagine him dead.†   (source)
  • It had been discarded after long years of service, only to be resuscitated by a lanky, hollow-eyed ex-R. A. F. pilot who had delusions about starting his own airline in the Canadian North.†   (source)
  • The team was still resuscitating the infant when I got there.†   (source)
  • Doctors had tried resuscitation immediately after the shooting, but they soon gave up.†   (source)
  • We tried the usual resuscitations, of course, but it was more for form than from hope.†   (source)
  • It may not appear when they're first recovered from the water, but almost as soon as someone starts removing their clothing or attempting resuscitation there it is, generally in copious amounts.†   (source)
  • There he was resuscitated and put on full life support while the military brass and Hegemony politicians decided what to do with him.†   (source)
  • Then quelling disgust, I began mouth to mouth resuscitation and external heart massage—what did they call it?†   (source)
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.†   (source)
  • Her quick thinking enabled an emergency team to resuscitate him, but no one knew how long he had been without breathing.†   (source)
  • They're resuscitating her now.†   (source)
  • Working quickly, Leale straddles Lincoln's chest and begins resuscitating the president, hoping to improve the flow of oxygen to the brain.†   (source)
  • In a pinch, Missing could resuscitate up to sixteen or even twenty infants packed side by side on that bench.†   (source)
  • She has heard the talk about fluids and resuscitation and is beginning to hope that her husband might just live.†   (source)
  • We resuscitate at the battlefield.†   (source)
  • I was supposed to resuscitate you.†   (source)
  • The kind of trauma he'd been through resulted in "shock" lung, or Da Nang lung (recognized in GIs who were resuscitated on the battlefield, only to develop this strange lung stiffness), along with kidney shutdown.†   (source)
  • Ever hear of people being resuscitated after they have apparently drowned?†   (source)
  • 'Come down here and assist to resuscitate.†   (source)
  • I believe if I could have resuscitated him I would have done so for the sole purpose of murdering him!†   (source)
  • Ann was suggested to me by the fifteenth century Dutch morality called Everyman, which Mr William Poel has lately resuscitated so triumphantly.†   (source)
  • Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person, that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner, that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.†   (source)
  • Have the least confidence in man or woman!" he cried in bitter tones, as he sat with his new friends in prison, and recounted to them his favourite stories of the siege of Kars, and the resuscitated soldier.†   (source)
  • Then Henchard shaved for the first time during many days, and put on clean linen, and combed his hair; and was as a man resuscitated thenceforward.†   (source)
  • The latter might probably have been won for him, had those on whom the guardianship of his welfare had fallen deemed it advisable to expose Clifford to a miserable resuscitation of past ideas, when the condition of whatever comfort he might expect lay in the calm of forgetfulness.†   (source)
  • The Scottish magician, you said, was, like Lucan's witch, at liberty to walk over the recent field of battle, and to select for the subject of resuscitation by his sorceries, a body whose limbs had recently quivered with existence, and whose throat had but just uttered the last note of agony.†   (source)
  • Oh, pray do, for heaven's sake, tell us all about—is he a vampire, or a resuscitated corpse, or what?†   (source)
  • Who shall resuscitate it?†   (source)
  • The resuscitated rajah approached Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg, and, in an abrupt tone, said, "Let us be off!"†   (source)
  • The traditional taste of certain individuals, vanity, fashion, or the genius of an actor may sustain or resuscitate for a time the aristocratic drama amongst a democracy; but it will speedily fall away of itself—not overthrown, but abandoned.†   (source)
  • Kirby, aided by Richard, whose anxiety induced him to run into the water to meet his favorite assistant, carried the motionless steward up the bank, and seated him before the fire, while the sheriff proceeded to order the most approved measures then in use for the resuscitation of the drowned.†   (source)
  • But the balance had been turned against Lydgate by two members, who for some private reasons held that this power of resuscitating persons as good as dead was an equivocal recommendation, and might interfere with providential favors.†   (source)
  • A man, who was a stranger in the Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.†   (source)
  • He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.†   (source)
  • Besides the service which he had rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some benefit.†   (source)
  • The guests, though still agape with astonishment, pledged their resuscitated landlord, who thus proceeded in his story:—He had indeed now many more auditors than those to whom it was commenced, for Edith, having given certain necessary orders for arranging matters within the Castle, had followed the dead-alive up to the stranger's apartment attended by as many of the guests, male and female, as could squeeze into the small room, while others, crowding the staircase, caught up an erroneous edition of the story, and transmitted it still more inaccurately to those beneath, who again sent it forth to the vulgar without, in a fashion totally irreconcilable to the real fact.†   (source)
  • to the cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angouleme, surnamed by the liberal sheets the hero of Andujar, compressing in a triumphal attitude that was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical terrorism of the liberals; the sansculottes resuscitated, to the great terror of dowagers, under the name of descamisados; monarchy opposing an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterward†   (source)
  • For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resuscitation of Edward, she had one again.†   (source)
  • I tried all the resuscitative techniques at my disposal, useless though I knew them now to be: arm-flapping, chest-massage, even mouth-to-mouth breathing, distasteful as that was, but with the expected result.†   (source)
  • The wellknown and highly respected worker in the cause of our old tongue, Mr Joseph M'Carthy Hynes, made an eloquent appeal for the resuscitation of the ancient Gaelic sports and pastimes, practised morning and evening by Finn MacCool, as calculated to revive the best traditions of manly strength and prowess handed down to us from ancient ages.†   (source)
  • Distant and dead resuscitate,
    They show as the dial or move as the hands of me, I am the clock myself.†   (source)
  • Do thou, therefore, O Rhadamanthus, who sittest in judgment with me in the murky caverns of Dis, as thou knowest all that the inscrutable fates have decreed touching the resuscitation of this damsel, announce and declare it at once, that the happiness we look forward to from her restoration be no longer deferred.†   (source)
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