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infirmary
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A Gesture Life
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- 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.†
p. 160.9 *infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment
- The captain had come by the infirmary soon after their entering to inform me of my new, additional duties—that I, and not he, would be responsible for maintaining the readiness of the girls, beginning the next day.†
p. 166.5
- He found me one afternoon doing paperwork and called me out into the small clearing behind the infirmary, where our medical wastes and other garbage were discarded.†
p. 222.6
- Here in the infirmary, sir?†
p. 223.1
- "Resume your duties," he muttered, turning to go back inside the infirmary.†
p. 223.5
- I will affix it on the front of the infirmary.†
p. 224.1
- Captain Ono's choice, of course, was intentionally belittling, though I could see, too, how the sign would serve to keep others away from the infirmary who would naturally assume there had been an outbreak.†
p. 225.1
- As there was no recent fighting in our area, the infirmary was in fact empty and had been so for some weeks, and he could have a privacy there that was not possible anywhere else in the camp, even for an officer.†
p. 225.1
- As I took my early morning walk I decided not to go directly to the infirmary but rather to detour toward the latrines, where I passed by the longish, narrow comfort house, with its five modest, unadorned doors all set in a row.†
p. 225.9
- I had intended to keep her in the infirmary for several days, for observation and treatment and rest, but after Mrs. Matsui complained to the doctor about having to give her extra without compensation, he ordered that the girl be sent back to the comfort house immediately in order to resume her duties.†
p. 227.2
- Across from these, set on a rise of land, was one of the officers' houses, and then behind that and partly in my sight the infirmary, everything in this morning remaining unto itself, and as such appearing remarkable and unremarkable at once.†
p. 228.7
- You should be in your quarters or at the infirmary.†
p. 230.3
- It so happened that the commander sent his sentry to my quarters to have this one escorted back to the infirmary.†
p. 230.7
- I spoke to her then, asking her to follow me to the infirmary, where I had already prepared a small space for her behind a curtain in what was originally intended as a second supply area but was no longer, as we were now sorely lacking in most everything and would be until the end of the war.†
p. 231.8
- She searched me with her eyes but did not speak, and as I walked to the infirmary she trailed me at a few meters, not from fear or deference but more as though trying to regard the whole of me.†
p. 232.3
- The infirmary was of course a model of hygiene and efficiency, which I was most willing to maintain for him, despite his sometimes searing criticisms in this very room (and in front of others), which were aimed not at my specific conduct but at the legacies of my "training" and "background"—the ultimate question being of my ethos, as it were, a term (from his brief university schooling in England) that he seemed to employ often, for my edification.†
p. 232.9
- The idea of confining her like this seemed somewhat more reasonable to me now, for it seemed she ought not to be allowed to roam freely about the infirmary or the camp.†
p. 239.7
- FOR THE BETTER PART of the next four days our company was undisturbed, the whole of the infirmary standing empty.†
p. 241.1
- When I reached the infirmary I'd wash my hands and then mix it with two rice balls I'd saved from my own meal the evening before and make them larger, dusting them with shrimp powder.†
p. 241.7
- After returning from the gravesite, we sat under the cool cast of the moonlight in the small yard behind the infirmary.†
p. 251.8
- TWO MORE WHOLE DAYS I had, before I saw the black flag raised upon the tilted pole of the infirmary.†
p. 253.2
- I told her, "I think it is this evening, K, that he will come to the infirmary."†
p. 254.2
- I thought I should have also told her that I was now resolved to speak candidly with Captain Ono, that I was prepared to suggest to him my keeping a log of my duties around the camp and infirmary—which I had indeed begun compiling.†
p. 261.6
- You'll meet me at the infirmary shortly.†
p. 265.1
- I was walking quite slowly, as I was loathing the thought of the three of us together, her so near to him in my presence, and the doctor actually caught up with me before I reached the infirmary.†
p. 265.6
- You, it is obvious, are helplessly concerned about the girl—that one female body, there in the infirmary.†
p. 268.8
- I was lying on a cot in the empty infirmary, where she was watching over me.†
p. 291.2
- 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.†
p. 291.9
- The captain unlocked the infirmary door and stepped inside.†
p. 296.5
- When I finally finished administering to the commander and returned to the infirmary there was no one there.†
p. 303.7
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)