All 17 Uses
infirmary
in
A Separate Peace
(Edited)
- None of us was allowed near the infirmary during the next days, but I heard all the rumors that came out of it.
p. 61.1infirmary = place where patients receive treatment
- Instead he steered me amiably into the lane leading toward the infirmary.
p. 63.2
- I brought my hands down and watched the red brick exterior of the infirmary, a cheerful building, coming closer.
p. 64.4
- We were walking up the steps of the infirmary, everything was very swift, and next I was in a corridor being nudged by Dr. Stanpole toward a door.
p. 64.5
- Despite everything at the Devon Infirmary, he had seemed an athlete there, temporarily injured in a game; as though the trainer would come in any minute and tape him up.
p. 68.4
- Brinker shouted that Phineas must not be moved; someone else, realizing that only a night nurse would be at the Infirmary, did not waste time going there but rushed to bring Dr. Stanpole from his house.
p. 178.2infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment
- Phil and Dr. Stanpole then got into the car and drove slowly away, the headlights forming a bright parallel as they receded down the road, and then swinging into another parallel at right angles to the first as they turned into the Infirmary driveway.
p. 180.7infirmary = place where patients receive treatment
- I walked into the bank of shrubbery, circled past trees in the direction of the chapel, doubled back along a large building donated by the alumni which no one had ever been able to put to use, recrossed the street and walked noiselessly up the emerging grass next to the Infirmary driveway.
p. 181.2
- There was a street light behind me somewhere through the trees and the windows of the Infirmary dimly reflected it.
p. 184.4
- Please bring some of Finny's clothes and his toilet things to the Infirmary.
p. 187.4
- I didn't know what I was going to say at the Infirmary.
p. 187.5
- I couldn't escape a confusing sense of having lived through all of this before—Phineas in the Infirmary, and myself responsible.
p. 187.6 *infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment
- In this way I tried to calm myself as I walked with Finny's suitcase toward the Infirmary.
p. 188.1infirmary = place where patients receive treatment
- I reached the Infirmary with Finny's suitcase and went inside.
p. 188.4
- The air was laden with hospital smells, not unlike those of the gym except that the Infirmary lacked that sense of spent human vitality.
p. 188.4
- I left the Infirmary and went to my 10:10 class, which was on American history.
p. 192.1
- Then I took a shower, dressed, and went back to the dormitory, reread part of Le bourgeois gentilhomme, and at 4:45, instead of going to a scheduled meeting of the Commencement Arrangements Committee, on which I had been persuaded to take Brinker's place, I went to the Infirmary.
p. 193.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(infirmary) a small facility where patients receive treatment -- such as a room or two at a school as contrasted to a busy hospital or medical clinic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)