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stretchers

n. (plural of stretcher English)

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When I entered the dressing ward, I found the two lying side by side on stretchers which had been placed on the floor.

Some, lying on their stretchers on the floor, seized us by the legs as we passed, imploring us to attend to them.

On the other, there were stretchers, and I saw the feet of the men lying upon them.

A smell of soup and excrements circulates between the stretchers, and seems to insult the slender onyx vases that surmount the cabinet.

For my part, I will stay here, between these stretchers with their burdens of anguish.

As we watched, the loading began of some or the hundreds of German Army wounded who were lying on stretchers in two of the warehouses farther along the quay.

When the first got on the deck, they began picking up the stretchers and carrying them back to the quay.

Myself and a few neighbours now procured some stretchers, and at the direction of Doctor Carr, converted the London Hotel into an hospital, and took there the wounded.

On the following morning during breakfast she was told to report for duty at once, to find the cubicles occupied with stretchers, dazed people sitting around, and a good deal of noise and bustle.