The extreme cases were carried at a snail's pace by bearers, who put their feet down as carefully as if they were testing very thin ice, and who placed the comfortable spring stretchers in the very few vehicles which had rubber or imitation rubber tyres.

There were two crude stretchers, borne by stolid-faced miners in red flannel shirts and clay-stained boots.

As Pachacuti VI was carried over the field of battle on a golden stretcher, encouraging his men, he was killed by an arrow.

The Red Cross men were kept busy, staggering away downhill with stretchers laden with the wounded.

In the bell-loft, with other lumber, was an old 'stretcher,' very much less luxurious than the brancard that is used in Paris for carrying the sick and wounded.

Not when he turned back in the rain of the enemy's fire to find his captain who had dropped wounded among the dead, when he swung him over his shoulder and staggered to the nearest stretcher.

Numerous stretchers told of their success with bear; but the remains of an old fire in the very heart of our shooting grounds warned us that in this section the bears might have been disturbed; for the Alaskan bear is very wary, and is quick to take alarm at any unusual scent.

This is of oak, with turned skittle-shaped legs slanting outwards, and connected and strengthened by plain stretchers.

There were many rubbish heaps in the courtyard near which it was not wise to linger, and always propped against the walls were stretchers soppy with blood, or with great dark stains upon them where blood had dried.

All that they could do to staunch Giovanni's wound they did, and having made a temporary stretcher with guns and hunting-cloaks, the little cavalcade was preparing to move on to seek further assistance.

There were two of them at the length of a stretcher apart, and yet no visible stretcher lay between them.