She watched the stretcher on wheels go noiselessly down the corridor toward the elevator and when it was gone she still continued to look.
There were, I think, ten detachments, each provided with a stretcher and a bag containing simple surgical appliances.
Each detachment walked round its stretcher twice, then stood at ease again, then at attention, then dressed up and arranged itself, and brushed, itself down.
They went for the police, who came with the stretcher (ah!
I could see no visiting officer, and was lost in conjecture when I noticed an ambulance party with a stretcher moving slowly downwards by the road leading from the citadel.
This stretcher shows the use of the long curving palm in place of the classic acanthus, and also introduces the fat little cherubs which French designers affected.
Plate XXX] [Illustration: Plate XXXI--QUEEN ANNE CHAIR With marquetry back and carved cabriole leg with hoof and serpentine stretcher Courtesy of P.
The leg of chairs carved in C scrolls follows the shape of the curves, and furniture of this pattern has exceeding charm, especially when the front stretcher has been treated by an inspired hand.
Here also is seen an innovation in the ornamental stretcher across the front which, instead of being near the ground, is raised to a height out of reach of a ruthless boot which might mar its elaboration.
He caught the name of Jacobean and to every piece of ill-drawn furniture he affixed a spiral leg and the Stuart name; or, he set a serpentine flat stretcher and called his mahogany dining set, William and Mary.
All are understayed with honest stretchers, but one has the front stretcher close to the floor, indicating a little earlier mode.
The first change was in using thinner wood; the next was in giving the stretcher a look of ornamental lightness by turning.
When this happened the front stretcher of chairs was lifted from the ground to spare it the heavy wear apparent in older pieces.
The collector considers the charm irresistibly increased when the front stretcheris well worn with the friction of many feet, the resting feet of a long procession that has walked down the centuries.
This baluster effect had many varieties, but all united in finishing with a square block at the bottom and where the seat-frame met the leg, or where the front stretcher crossed, if it was placed high.
Another point to notice is the change in the arrangement of stretchers, also the lifting from the floor of the elaborate front stretcherwhich is made to match the ornamental top of the chair back.
The Portuguese style of stretcher copied closely the carving on the top of the back in graceful curves.
There was no difficulty about placing him upon the stretcher this time, and he made no remonstrance, as he was dead.
As the last couple safely crossed the bridge and laid their dripping stretcher down for a moment, the occupant, a Gurkha rifleman, suddenly sat up and looked round.
The stretcher-bearers brought in another casualty, thestretcher dripping blood.
Unconscious he remained as the four Kavirondo porters, the stretcher on their heads, jogged along the jungle path in the wake of Ali and the three other porters who bore his baggage.
I awoke to find the stretcher on which I was sleeping an island and myself lying in a pool of water.
When the train came in and it was time to move the wounded upon it, we found that we did not have nearly enough stretcher bearers.
His feet stuck out underneath the blanket that was thrown over the stretcher and hid his body, his head, his arms, and his hands.
That night I left my supplies in the office of the French Railway Transport officer in the station and, with a stretcher for a bed, found a place to sleep in what had been left of a bombed house.
It was there thatstretcher bearers and ambulance drivers were given hot drinks and warm food--all that they wanted of both--and where sometimes they toppled over from sheer fatigue and wearied nerves.
She saw two attendants carry Mr. Burnett, motionless and white, on a stretcher from the house next door into the ambulance.
The stretcher was brought again, and eight soldiers carried her down the mountainside and so down to the port of Balaklava.
I lay down on a stretcher and tried to get a little sleep, but got none.
We had planned a few signals, but the principal lesson we were taught was that these were too few in number, and owing to this whole stretcher squads got lost.
Last night I started to go as far out as possible with five stretcher squads, but in the dark it is difficult to move, nearly every spot is taken up by men, horses, and transport, and you are continually challenged by sentries.
The Australian Aid Post was a perfect shambles, about an acre of stretcher cases, horrible wounds, and all the surroundings soaked with blood.
After dark to-night we went out in search of men supposed to be wounded, six of our bearers acting as these and starting fifteen minutes before thestretcher bearers.
Each stretcher squad made off at its hardest as soon as its patient was passed up.
We soon had several hundreds through our hands, largely stretcher cases which we arranged in rows in front of the ruins of the lighthouse, till we had more than we could do with, and soon had to forward most of our cases to W.
As it was the stretchers could only be carried along the straight parts with the stretcher traverses "kicked in," and even then the backs of all the men's hands were peeled to the bone.
I set off with thirteen stretcher squads to the dressing station of the 88th Field Ambulance, which we found two miles up The Gully.
All these, along with our stretcher bearers, land together from cutters, and the date fixed is in all probability Wednesday, April 14, or the following day at latest.
With us all went well, although some stretcher squads I was with had a narrow escape, two shrapnel shells bursting immediately over our heads and kicking up a dust all round us.
We have a stretcher or two as a roof to keep the sun out, but with their huge blood stains they do not form an artistic ceiling.
They had lanterns and a stretcher and at once placed poor Jack upon it and hurried away.
That" proved to be Baal, returned to inquire what was being done to his master by prodding the orderly's legs with his horns, so that the stretcher nearly fell out of his hand.
One side of the stretcher was lifted, and Rupert was rolled over.
Put thestretcher on the ground, and roll him over on to it," one of the men said.
Immediately the wall would open and eject two attendants with a stretcher who would cause the troublesome body to disappear as though by enchantment.
The stretcher bearers had arrived; the same ones who, according to public rumor, were passed by magic through the walls of the Casino to carry away the gamblers dying in the play-rooms.
Owing to the insufficiency of the number of surviving stretcher bearers, the evacuation of the wounded was exceedingly difficult.
The stretcher bearers nevertheless continue with their task, well knowing what fate may soon befall them.
Two wounded Germans whom the stretcher bearers had been unable to clear were handed over to the relieving unit.
A party of Germans was observed carrying a stretcher and a white flag.
It was a favourite device of the enemy to pretend that they were carrying a stretcher when they were actually carrying a machine gun, and in consequence this particular party was soon dispersed.
To stretcher bearers fall the most trying duties in war, but in accounts of battles little mention is made of their efforts.
She obeyed him silently, lifting the end of the stretcher and leading the way down to the canyon's bottom, where Swan assured her they could walk quite easily and would save many detours which the road above must take.
Many times Swan had her lower the stretcher to the ground, and would make a great show of rubbing his arms and easing his shoulder muscles.
He had probably been watching while she and Swan made that stretcher and carried her dad away out of his reach.
With Lorraine's assistance he carried Brit into Thurman's cabin, laid him, stretcher and all, on the bed and hurried out to catch and harness the team of work horses.
Lorraine gave a sharp little scream and set down the stretcher with a lurch, staring after the horse wide-eyed, her face white.
She went to her end of the stretcher and waited there while Swan put the rope over his head.
Lorraine wondered why, until he had lifted her father and placed him on the stretcher and placed the loop over his head and under one arm, as a ploughman holds the reins, so that his hands may be free.
Grant reached the highroad just as Robinson and the men with the stretcher were crossing a stone bridge spanning the river about a hundred yards below The Hollies.
Poor Gordon, from the nature of his wounds, was unable to bear the motion of a waggon, and was carried on a stretcher the whole distance, by the men of his company.
After the glue has hardened on these, the clamps may be removed and the front, back rails and the stretcher assembled.
While the glue on these two ends of the table is setting, the other upper rails, top, and stretcher may be finished.
Illustration: Piano Bench in Quarter-Sawed Oak] It should be noted that the mortise for the key in the stretcher must be laid out before the shoulders and cheeks of the tenon on which the mortise is made are cut off.
When the glue has hardened on these, place the stretcher and side rails.
A shell had burst over us and had killed one stretcher bearer.
Presently they followed her, carrying on a kind of stretcher between them an ingot of iron ore that seemed to be as much as they could lift.
Next she commanded them to place the block of gold-coloured metal upon their stretcher and to bring it with them.
It often took four men to carry a stretcher back to the aid post, and even then it was a slow job.
One must say a word in praise of the splendid work done on this and many other occasions by the stretcher bearers.
In another minute she turned and went back to the dressing-stations where there was much cleaning up to be done--or as much as could be done--before the next stretcher arrived.
Since Barrow told me I had to lug a stretcher I haven't eaten a meal a day, Tim.
As he entered Tim, the last to receive attention, lay in a stretcher ready to be moved.
Try as he would to make his feet go forward, his hands pulled against thestretcher handles, until Hastings turned and repaid him with a longer string of oaths.
Swathed in bandages it was laid once more upon a stretcher and carried rearward to a waiting ambulance whose racks would then be filled.
No stretcher nor medicine chest could be brought there.
Stretcher afterstretcher would bring fresh patients and hurry back to the line of battle to fetch more.
He told me that his legs were broken, and for three days he had had no single grain of rice, nor a single drop of water; no stretcher had appeared, and he had been waiting for the arrival of death ever since he fought and fell.
So as a means to make him go I said, “Bring me a stretcher and I will go,” and urged him to hurry up.
It was a quiet, sober lot of men who filed into a shady, tree-dotted ravine the next day behind the stretcherthat bore the remains of Private Sam Lodge.
A lady stopped the stretcherbetween the pier and the ambulance, and handed one of the bearers a little white packet containing a towel, soap, tooth-brush and tooth-powder.
The sailors grasped the stretcher as lightly as if it had been empty, walked along to the end of the passageway into a ward.
For the distance of about a city block they carried the stretcher along a road cut through thick jungle.
The stretcher bearers found that the roughly constructed trench was too narrow to allow the stretcher to turn, so they put me in a blanket and started away.
I learned this from an old English regular in the stretcher next me.
Hoddinott and Pike slipped the straps from their shoulders and lowered the stretcher gently.
While somebody ran for the doctor, our stretcher bearers responded to the all too familiar shout, "Stretcher bearers at the double," but by the time they reached him he was beyond all need of doctor or stretcher bearers.
I was now quite clear headed again and told Hayes to shout for "B Company stretcher bearers.
These Australian stretcher bearers who meet the incoming hospital ships are amazingly strong.
Hayes jumped up, shouting lustily, "Stretcher bearers at the double, stretcher bearers at the double!
As soon as each one was inspected by the colonel, he told the stretcherbearers where to take it.
Don't you try to bandage it here," I said; "yell for stretcher bearers.
He examined the bandages, and told the stretcher bearers to take me along to the dressing station.
There were a dozen doctors, an ambulance, stretcher bearers, trained nurses and the two teams in proper football attire.
But it was thestretcher bearers who seemed to excite the greatest merriment in the grand parade which took place before the game began.
And thus two German Red Cross men found them in the chilly dawn as they slid down the crater-side, carrying a folded stretcher between them.
They dropped the stretcher and stood silently looking down at those two motionless figures in their fraternal embrace, whose attitude told their tale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stretcher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bed; bunk; couch; litter; rack; sack; sofa
