He had heard of men who had burst when on camel journeys, and he knew that the Arabs swathe their bodies tightly in broad cloth bandages when they prepare for a long march.

The last two kilometers of the woody belt are something incredible to behold; there seems hardly an acre that is not sown like the scene of a paperchaseonly here with bloody bandages and bits of uniform.

" "What, never!" exclaimed Dotty, starting up on her elbow, and trying to look through her thick bandage at Johnny.

and I bade him give it to the poor Spaniard, who was in as much want of it as his father; and I sent one of the cakes, that Friday brought, to the Spaniard too, who was indeed very weak, and was reposing himself upon a green place under the shade of a tree; and whose limbs were also very stiff and very much swelled with the rude bandage he had been tied with.

He had been shot through both shoulders, and though tight bandages had stanched the wound he was still in agony.

Then a light bandage was put on over the cut.

Following this, and before removing the tourniquet, the wound should be filled with pledgets of carbolized tow, and the whole tightly secured by a stout and broad linen bandage of not less than 6 yards in length.

" She took the wet cloth and made a deft bandage for the head of Conklin.

His stiff fingers protruded beyond his soiled bandages and they were still crusted with dried blood and grained with dirt.

I can't wait for him any longer, so I'm doing his work myself," answered Miss Dickenson, who was tenderly winding a wet bandage round her Juno's face, one side of which was so much plumper than the other that it looked as if the Queen of Olympus was being hydropathically treated for a severe fit of ague.

With the morbidness of those who delight in concentrating attention upon their own sufferings, he had pulled off the loosened bandage with his teeth and held up the stump for inspection, and Evadne had laid her cool, soft hands on either side of the unsightly mass of red and angry flesh and was holding them there while she talked!

Her daughters were rather pretty, but wanted, both in appearance and manner, the inexpressible air of haut ton which so eminently distinguished the easy but polished deportment of Colonel Egerton, whom they found reclining on a sofa with his leg on a chair, amply secured in numerous bandages, but unable to rise.

Under this strip is a piece of antiseptic gauze, a strip of bandage and plaster and cloth for the outer bandage.

That gentleman was having a nice, new pink elastic bandage put about his ankle.

So they tear off the sacred bandages of the great Flat-Head tribe, and there follows a mighty rush of blood to the long-compressed region.

He expressed great surprise that the first physician called should have put on so severe a bandage.

There was a soppy bandage about his head.

Both were crusted to the shoulders in thick mud; Rawbon's cap was gone, and his hair hung plastered in a wet mop over his ears and forehead, and Courtenay showed a red-stained bandage under his cap.

It is possible that the surgeon may be found making starch over the kitchen fire, because there is nobody at hand who understands how to make starched bandages; or he may be at the desk, casting up columns of figures, or writing returns, when he is urgently wanted at the bedside.

reduced to stiff bandages and a painful relapse) in possession of the hut.

Dan Barry had finished a swift, deft bandage and stopped the bleeding of the dog's wounds.

They are assisted by members of the corps, who remove the temporary bandages, and put on dressings which will last until the soldier reaches a hospital.

The bright side is often the true side; if Love is blindfolded, I see a triple bandage on the eyes of Hate.

Sturgeon gave a sympathetic whistle, and stolidly unwound bandages.

Under the curtains of the lumbering ambulance-waggons marked with the Geneva red cross could be seen livid faces tied up in bloodstained bandages.