Very fortunate are those who succeed in obtaining a bed at the hospice in which to end their days; the number of applicants each year exceeds by three or four thousand the number of vacancies.
The Hospice Général, destitute as it is of architectural magnificence, cannot be visited without satisfaction.
It was in those "good old days" that are so interesting to read about, and were so ill to live in, that the ancient hospice flourished most bravely.
The Hospice of St. Bernard so well described in this book was visited by the author the previous year.
This will be conveyed to the hospice and there frozen.
At length the lake was reached in which the Reuss has its source, and a little beyond it the roofs of the hospice and the inn were visible.
There were lakes hard-by the hospice doors, and fish in lakes, easily procurable, therefore it was unreasonable that they should be charged fancy prices.
One good turn deserves another, and as you did me a real kindness at the hospice I repay it by freeing you from a degrading union just contracted with this wretched man, who is a mere adventurer and swindler.
Louis Fontaine received his education in the elementary school at the Hospice of Ste.
He was a brother in the monastery at Salzburg, but being out of health, was making his way to a hospice of his order above the valley.
In the hospice of the Grimsel, in the heart of the Alps, as I sat down to dinner after a day of hard walking, I saw my classmate in a remote part of the room with his wife and children and a group of Swiss friends.
Dumangin, head physician of the Hospice de l'Unite, made his appearance at his house on the morning of Sunday, 7th June, with the official despatch sent him by the committee of public safety.
Pelletan, head surgeon of the Grand Hospice de l'Humanite, was next directed to attend the prisoner, and in June he found him in so alarming a state that he at once asked for a coadjutor, fearing to undertake the responsibility alone.
Not far from here is a Hospicewhere the dogs, the great St. Bernard dogs are kept for the purpose of protecting the mountain pass.
On such nights the monks of the hospice would go out with the dogs and listen for cries of help.
The Hospice stands on a high hill, just the place for Roman fever to disappear as if by magic for a time, and the patient, relieved of his lassitude, set to work with energy, aided by Fra Paolino and Fra Agostino.
That very summer he was sent to the Hospice of Sta.
I would not answer even for my own power to reach the hospicein a time like this.
A wanderer these many years, I have often seen the stony roof of the hospice with as much pleasure as I have ever beheld the entrance of my haven, when an adverse gale was pressing against my canvass.
The arrival of Sigismund's party at the hospice preceded that of the other travellers more than an hour.
The hospice has put on a summer garb, and is wholly devoid of snowballs or other wintry emblems.
We reach St. Bago Hospice at Laurel Hill before lunch time.
The following list indicates most of the other activities under the above head: Homes for the Aged: Hospice Auclair (Sisters of Providence), Rachel and Sanguinet streets.
The first home, opened with one “penitent,” was called the Hospice Ste.
The school which had then become too small was transferred to thehospice St. Joseph in Montreal.
She begged to be allowed to go out, to slip along the alley to the Hospice and beg a loaf from Sister Ste.
Madeleine knew the minute size of the little Hospice and exclaimed: "Forty!
Go by our back door, through the alley, and knock at the side door of the Hospice .
No, these were not the same men who lay bleeding to death in the Hospice to whom she had sent bandages.
Years ago a papal Primate Built a hospice here, Which, from its delightful climate, Mild throughout the year, Soon became for convalescence A renowned retreat, Where pure air and strict quiescence Made all cures complete.
Yet still, across the narrow strait, Some remnants of the hospice stand, Whose ever hospitable gate Met pilgrims from the Holy Land, Its finely carved, millennial tower Enduring to the present hour.
The Hospice de la Charite and the military hospital are on the same bank slightly farther down stream.
The Hospice de l'Antiquaille, at Fourviere, occupies the site of the palace of the praetorian prefects, in which Germanicus, Claudius and Caracalla were born.
We seek two gentlemen crossing the Pass, who should have reached the Hospice this evening.
The actual distance of those places was nothing: the whole five, and the next Hospice to boot, being within two miles; but the ghastly way was whitened out and sheeted over.
He retired to the hospice of St Jacques; and, following the advice of a Spanish monk, spent his vacations in Flanders, where he was helped by the rich Spanish merchants.
When he arrived near Loyola he would not go to the castle, but lived at the public hospice at Azpeitia, and began his usual life of teaching Christian doctrine and reforming morals.
The Hospice de Notre-Dame de Douleurs is the chief of the many establishments provided for the accommodation of pilgrims.
The soft, deep tones of the Hospice bell called them all to waken for a new day and its work.
Jan was so happy that at times he forgot the Hospice and the work his mother had told him he must do.
They all slept in a big basement under the Hospice building.
I wish I could tell the dogs at the Hospice not to help people who are lost," he thought as he lay in the dark.
I have heard the monks tell visitors that our ancestors have lived in the Hospice for a thousand years," said Bruno in one of his talks.
Rex was guiding four men to the Hospice after a big storm last Fall.
The dogs were accustomed to visitors, for in the summer many people came to see the Hospiceand the dogs, but in the winter the strangers sought refuge from storms.
Hundreds and hundreds of deep notes, like the bells of the Hospice sending a message to him.
Hospice took up the call of their kin, and the big dog dashed swiftly along the trail until he reached the little group.
Through the trees the gray hospice of St. Cross was visible for a transient moment.
So he took refuge with Mrs. Bundy, whose bosom was an openhospice for all sorts of vicarious sorrows.
We sent our servant onward to engage beds for us at thehospice of the Grimsel, and resolved to spend the rest of the day (the sun was yet three hours high) in this wilderness of mountain scenery.
Hospenthal has a hotel or two, and it is a great halting place for travellers who are about to take our route over the Furca to the Hospice of the Grimsel.
Close by the hospice is a square stone house, into which are carried the lifeless bodies of those who perish in the snow, and are found by the dogs, or on the melting of the snow in the summer.
Coming down from the Hospice of the Grimsel, I was filled with admiration when I entered the valley in which the villages of Im-Hof and Im-Grund lie, with their single church and hundred cottages.
Within an hour's walk from the door of the Hospiceis the Glacier of the Aar, the most interesting and instructive of all the Glaciers of Switzerland.
Not one of the whole company who staid at the Hospice last night, turned aside for a day to study with us this wonderful scene.
It gave me a vivid picture of the hospice when its walls and cheerful fires and kind sympathies are needed for worn and exhausted pilgrims.
I had a cheery and welcome dinner the evening we arrived with Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode, who commanded the 20th Corps, at his headquarters at the German Hospiceon the Mount of Olives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hospice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
