 ministering angel' without any exaggeration, in these hospitals; and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night,...  Notes and Queries - 391. oldal1915Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1855 - 970 oldal
...hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens into gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken, which when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 oldal
...in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken which, when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 952 oldal
...slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at thje sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken which, when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
 | 1858 - 866 oldal
...in these hospitals; and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When...little lamp in her hand making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken, which, when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
 | Mary Cowden Clarke - 1858 - 494 oldal
...in these hospitals : and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken which, when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1860 - 282 oldal
...in these hospitals : and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken which, when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
 | Ellen Creathorne Clayton - 1859 - 66 oldal
...in. these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken which, when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 oldal
...— ' As her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens witi gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical...for the night, and silence and darkness have settled doin upon miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone with a little lamp in her hand, making... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen - 1861 - 418 oldal
...her benignant presence is an influence for good comfort, even amid the struggles of expiring nature. When all the medical officers have retired for the...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds." And it was no common scene of hospital experience •which startled the humane spectator at that hour... | |
 | James Croston - 1862 - 46 oldal
...in these hospitals, and, as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When...little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The popular instinct was not mistaken which, when she set out from England on her mission of mercy,... | |
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