"Hospital ward" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... point of the needle. He was lying so motionless that she thought at first that he was already dead; but presently he stirred faintly, a shiver ran through the thin arm on the sheet, and a low, half-strangled moan escaped from his lips. Had she come upon him in a hospital ward, she knew that she should not have recognized him. He was not the man she had once loved; he was not the father of her children; he was only a stranger who was dying in her house. She could feel nothing while she looked down at him. When she tried to remember her ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... kind, a few of them. Some wretch, driven half frantic by terror, worn out with hardships, hopeless of any end of his sufferings, seeks this way out. He gains a week of rest and security in a hospital ward. Then he faces the stern judgment of a court ...
— Our Casualty And Other Stories - 1918 • James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham
... It was upon that he had builded, and Vandervelde hated to see that plan brought to naught. Anne wouldn't really lose, of course,—Hayden could give her as much as she might forego,—but Vandervelde somehow didn't relish the idea. That girl Gracie, lingering on in the hospital ward, had brought the real Peter Champneys poignantly close to his trustee. He couldn't help thinking that if Anne could know that real Peter, there might be a hope that old Chadwick's judgment would be once more vindicated. At the same time, he cared ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... the hospital ward and sat on Rip's bed. The plastifoam mattress compressed under his weight. "How ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage |
