I left the world, and went up to take my last watch with the convalescing lady.

Occasionally persons convalescing from serious sickness where anodynes were taken, unwisely cling to them long after recovery.

He had the feeling of one convalescing in a hospital.

Oh, dear Mrs. Whittridge, what a beautiful world this is, when only there are no discords in one's own heart!" A day or two went by, and Phebe, though rapidly convalescing, was still a prisoner to her room.

It contained beds for fifty men; but on this day there were less than twenty sick and crippled Tommies convalescing here.

But when Jack lay white and still in his bedroom and Firio was rapidly convalescing, the fever refused to abate.

In other words, he has been slowly convalescing since that night: under the proper stimuli I have no doubt that everything would come back to him.

He convalesced very slowly and it was many months before she recovered from the shock.

Oh, happy, convalescing days!

On every corner were groups of Moroccan infantry, recently disembarked or convalescing from wounds, young soldiers with red caps and long cloaks of mustard yellow.

Two weeks after election he wrote thus to Mr. Judd, a member of the Legislature and Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee: "I have the pleasure to inform you that I am convalescing and hoping these lines may find you in the same improving state of health.

Well, if you must know, I was convalescing when these same Chows started a pogrom in the next camp.

Old Benson, the watchmaker, who had been convalescing from illness when Brown came away, had suffered a relapse and had probably but few hours to live.

He should be like the convalescing invalid, able from time to time to note his gradual progress in the ability to make the adjustments that are necessary to social beings.

I left Campbell next day, but on my first visit found him convalescing, and on the second visit he ran down the ward holding his sides and laughing, and I saw or heard of him no more.

Experience has shown that a large number of cases of disease or injury, or patients convalescing from surgical operations, recover much more rapidly in the cool mountain climate of Baguio than in the depressing heat and humidity of the plains.

These were happy days; I had nothing to do but to convalesce.

In the middle of the ward, which was about sixty feet long by thirty wide, was a big stove, red-hot, and around the stove was a circle of peoplewomen-nurses and stewards, and perhaps some convalescing patientssinging religious songs.

"During the long months in which I was convalescing, I was left almost entirely to the companionship of Marie.

Otherwise they were mentally, morally and physically perfect, and while I was convalescing I often stood by the window and watched them at play in the snow and it caused me to shudder every time I heard those youngsters shout with glee while they enjoyed the winter's sports, when I thought of poor Peoria Red whom this same merciless snow helped to murder.

I finished my dinner, and then, uninvited by Mrs. McDonald, but just as she had taught me a year ago, when I helped her to do the chores about the house while convalescing from my freezing experience, I carried the soiled dishes into the kitchen.

She said that her name was Lizzie, and explained that she had been ill with typhoid and was convalescing.