Patients

Examples

• Or, if they flop, their floppings goes in favour of more patients, and how can you rightly have one without t'other? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• That would be good discipline, you know, for a young doctor who has to please his patients in Middlemarch. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My page who admits patients is a new boy and by no means quick. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I get chiefly patients who can't pay me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His skill was relied on by many paying patients, but he always regarded himself as a failure: he had not done what he once meant to do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A medical man should be responsible for the quality of the drugs consumed by his patients. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They will unless there are more patients. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Doctor Manette received such patients here as his old reputation, and its revival in the floating whispers of his story, brought him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• That is clearly the best thing both for the patients and for the State. Plato. The Republic.
• Later he invent ed simple pendulum devices for timing the pulse of patients, and even made some advances in applying his discovery in the construction of pendulum clocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You recognize, I hope; the existence of spiritual interests in your patients? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There must be some more patients or they'll send us away. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Every doctor in large practice finds himself, every now and then, obliged to deceive his patients, as Mr. Candy deceived you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The patients, a s shown in the accompanying illustration, are suffering pain, and, according to the inscription, one cries out, Do this [and] let me go, and the other, Don't hurt me so! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• For patients, oh, to me impart The gay, the young, the witty; Such as may interest the heart. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And preparing theories of treatment to try on the patients, I suppose, said Mr. Toller. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Oh, very,' replied Bob; 'only not quite so much so as the confidence of patients with a shilling or two to spare would be. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I left Mr. Blake, to go my rounds among my patients; feeling the better and the happier even for the short interview that I had had with him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Bless me, you are surely not mad enough to think of leaving your patients without anybody to attend them! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He was a pedantic, disagreeable, affected fool, who visited his patients in leather breeches and topped boots. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He waits downstairs, and runs up to show patients out when I ring the consulting-room bell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Miss Temple's whole attention was absorbed by the patients: she lived in the sick-room, never quitting it except to snatch a few hours' rest at night. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A hen that chanced to be inoculated with the weakened virus developed the diseas e, but, after a time, recovered (much as patients after the old-time small pox inoculations). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Pray hear me,' urged Mr. Pickwick, as Mr. Ben Allen fell into a chair that patients were bled in, and gave way to his pocket-handkerchief. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The doctor had departed to his patients, and only the inspector and myself remained. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Dr. Beddoes had established what he styled a Pneumatic Institution at Clifton, the object of which was to try the medicinal effects of different gases on consumptive patients. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The temperature of the body is a trustworthy indicator of general physical condition; hence in all hospitals the temperature of patients is carefully taken at stated intervals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Monsieur,' said I, 'in my profession, the communications of patients are always received in confidence. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It rained hard this afternoon, as you know, and my patients were the only people who called. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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