The General and his fellow officers stood at salute while the orderlies were placing the wreath of roses on the marble slab that marked the final resting place of the brave and brilliant young French soldier.
Two orderlies carried a wreath of American Beauty roses which was to be placed on the tomb of the ardent young Frenchman.
The orderlieshave put him on a neighbouring bed while they make his.
Rashid had thought of everything, and this was why he went in search of Monet and Renaud, Catholic priests and ambulance orderlies of the second class.
The orderlies in particular, nearly all simple folks, had a desire to laugh, even when they were worn out with fatigue, which made a pretext of the slightest thing, and notably of danger.
Each ward we inspected revealed the same distress, exhaled the same odour of antiseptics and excrements, for the orderlies could not always get to the patient in time, and many of the men relieved themselves apparently unconcerned.
He helps the orderlies so much that he leaves them very little to do.
A few bewildered orderlies hurried hither and thither, powerless to meet the needs of this mass of suffering.
Every morning the orderliestook advantage of a moment of respite to run and inspect the new craters, and unearth the fuses of shells.
We took off one of his legs up to the thigh, and as soon as he recovered consciousness, he asked for another cigarette, and set all the orderlies laughing.
We ate it, and the finding by one of the orderlies of some bits of metal in his portion of meat gave occasion for a great many jests.
Blest if there wasn't a court-martial laying for every one of the orderlies if they said "boo!
There was no escort--only two orderliesand the general--and I pattered along through the gloom.
Orphan and theorderlies would rush up, and start moving more men down.
O'Neill now sent him to collect a dozen of those sleeping orderlies and start handing the wounded men, in their stretchers, down the ladder from the upper deck, and then down into the launch.
Some of those youthful orderlies were very nerve-shaken indeed.
We put them up on every available donkey, and some in our hospital cart, and our orderlies helped the rest along.
One of our orderlies was finally allowed to remove him under cover from the fierce sun and to give him water.
I was lucky to have any donkey at all, because some of the native orderlies having lost their own donkeys clean shaved most of the others, thus erasing the letters that had been cut out of the hair of the animal.
I had eaten them so as not to let even the orderlies know.
I determined to sleep that night, and drinking half a bottle of local cognac I had luckily procured for a debt, I gave the other to the orderlies and slept.
Now and then a donkey fell or refused to budge and our orderlies had to be carried also.
Some of the orderlies were on the after-part of the raft and others on a trailer just below.
We left more and more of the men and orderlies behind.
We were terribly angry, and had the whole crowd of men-servants and bearers and orderlies up about it at once.
Only the orderlies were allowed in them, so we sat packed upright, and couldn't sleep a wink.
Mounted orderlies were coming and going in haste; staff officers were making anxious inquiries; everybody but himself seemed excited.
One of the orderlies in the camp was a cobbler, but though the Huns frequently assured us they would provide him with the necessary tools, it took two months for their promise to materialise.
True, there were some sentries with fixed bayonets lounging about, but that was nothing unusual, for they might well be in charge of the orderlies who were working near by.
One day a new lot of orderlies arrived and took up their quarters in a barrack separated from our part of the camp by some wire.
Just before leaving the chateau, I excused myself and got as far as the back door, where I had to explain to some German orderlies that I was only trying to find my coat.
French and Russian orderlies were provided, each detailed to look after one or two rooms.
Orderlies and aids galloped to headquarters, orderlies and aid galloping away again.
Their orderlies were a few paces in the rear; and the head of the short column of troopers, in line with the launch, rode at an equal interval behind them.
I hear from one of the orderlies that a prisoner complained that their own guns opened on them as soon as a body formed up to surrender.
They had 200 shells here yesterday, one of the orderlies being killed and another has been showing me how his tunic was riddled by pieces of a shell that exploded.
An officer with two orderlies had just ridden in to say that quarters were to be prepared for Prince Charles, and a quantity of bullocks and meal got in readiness for the use of the army, which would arrive late that evening.
Orderlies stood on guard, and adjutants on guard above them.
The walls of his office and sitting-room were wainscoted, with a snug ante-room whereorderlies might attend and messengers might wait.
The major, staff, noncommissioned staff, and orderlies take their posts.
Post of noncommissioned staff officers andorderlies other than for ceremonies.
A and mountedorderlies B, C, and D, under Sergeant B, will precede the main body at 400 yards.
The officer of the day will then inspect the guard with especial reference for its fitness for the duty for which it is detailed, and will select as prescribed in paragraphs 1702, the necessary orderlies and color sentinels.
When the commander faces to give commands, the staff, flag, and orderliesdo not change position.
Other than for ceremonies, noncommissioned staff officers and orderlies accompany their immediate chiefs unless otherwise directed.
The flag of the general officer and the orderlies are 3 paces in rear of the staff, the flag on the right.
We must have Hospital Sergeants if there is to be the remotest hope of efficiency among the Orderlies here.
She scolds sergeants and orderlies all day long," wrote Mr. Bracebridge to her parents (Nov.
This caused great comings to and fro; numbers of orderlies were waiting at the door with requisitions.
The Orderlies ought to be well paid, well fed, well housed.
She was much touched by the men's appreciation of these attentions, and she was no less impressed by the conduct of the orderlies in the hospitals.
The practice of drawing raw rations, as here seen, seems invented on purpose to waste the time of as many Orderlies as possible, who stand at the Purveyor's office from 4 to 9 A.
Aides-de-camp and orderlies were always within call at the door of his carriage, and a number of riding-horses followed with the body-guard.
Stray soldiers sought their regiments in vain; orderlies with urgent despatches were unable to deliver them; while on the bridges and in the ravines a frightful tumult arose.
The recall had sounded at the cantonment, and mounted orderlies had galloped out to bring in such troops as might have trotted too far away for the sound.
The members of the court fidgeted in their full-dress uniforms and smoked and chatted and strolled about, calling on old acquaintances, and the adjutant-general sent orderlies to and fro with inquiries.
As many as six Orderlieshave been despatched to an outlying General; and not one of them could get through to him.
The reader will recollect that the last order I received from General Cutler was, "Take plenty of orderlies and report frequently.
We always had two orderlies on at night, and at 12 o'clock one of them was supposed to go over to the kitchen and have his supper, and when he came back at 12.
I jumped out and cautioned the orderlies to lift him as gently as they could, and he clung on to my hand as I walked beside the stretcher into the ward.
I didn't care for that train much, it stopped and started with such jolts, otherwise it was quite comfy, and all the orderlies came in and out on fictitious errands to have a look and try and get me anything I wanted.
The orderlies on night duty, on the surgical side, were a lazy lot and slept the whole night through, more often than not on the floor of the kitchen.
She was the nearest approach to the cheery orderlies of those far away days in France, I had struck since I came over.
All the orderlies who had waited on me came in early next morning to bid goodbye, and Captain C.
The orderlies kept calling me "Sir," which was amusing.
We had no telephone in those days, and orderlies came up from the Casino hospital and A.
We hastily wrapped up what patients were well enough to move, and the orderlies carried them to the "cave.
I began to feel terribly lonely; how I missed all my friends and the cheerful, jolly orderlies in France!
The orderlies had picked up quite a lot of Italian during their sojourn and were never tired of describing the wonderful sights they had seen.
It was probably the only funeral that the hospital yard ever had seen, for the soldiers and orderlies and attendants turned and gaped at the wonder, and nurses peered from the windows.
A dozen soldiers and orderlies were in the hospital compound, but no one turned a head toward the bearers and their burden.
Of the General's fourorderlies one was killed and two were wounded.
No guides were available, but two Egyptian officers, taken prisoners at Abbassieh, were made to show the way, orderlies being told off to shoot them at once in case of treachery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orderlies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
