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Sick list   /sɪk lɪst/   Listen
Sick list

noun
1.
A list of those who are ill (e.g. on a warship or in a regiment etc).





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"Sick list" Quotes from Famous Books



... winter quarters, the route could be traced on the snow by the blood which oozed from bare, frost-bitten feet. For want of blankets many were fain to sit up all night by fires. Cold and hunger daily added to the sick list, and men died for want of straw to put between them and the ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord
... fought. We wounded each other twice, and then the others stopped it. The second affair was just as absurd, except that there I got the best of it, and sliced the man's sword arm so deeply that he was on the sick list for two months—the result of an accident, as the surgeon put it down. So although I don't say but that there is a much better class of men in the 3rd than there was in my regiment, I should not be in ...
— With Frederick the Great - A Story of the Seven Years' War • G. A. Henty
... houses have been damaged, roofs blown away, and those gingerbread-looking balconies smashed off. As for the camps, even with a glass there is not a single tent to be seen standing on the plateau. The gale has made a clean sweep of them. What a night the soldiers must have had! I am put on the sick list for a few days so I shall be able to be with you. That's ...
— Jack Archer • G. A. Henty
... were now continually employed away from the ship, which moved slowly to the westward. At this time exposure and hard work brought the fever into the ship. The barge returned in consequence of four of her men being taken with it, and our sick list increased daily. A few days afterwards the coxswain of the barge died, and was buried along side the same morning. This death, after so short an illness, damped the spirits of the officers and men, ...
— Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery • Frank S. Marryat
... myself with the thought that the Divine adoption (if so be) of the human words warrants their truthfulness, as a man's signature makes a letter his own; but whether this is relevant, I doubt. My wife and I are both on the sick list, and I must now only add that ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge


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