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Sylvie and Bruno

By: Lewis Carroll

...d it was speedily settled that he had better be conveyed at once to the only Surgery in the place. I helped them in emptying the cart, and placing in ... ... was only when the driver had mounted to his place, and was starting for the Surgery, that I bethought me of the strange power I possessed of undoing ...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...ve him. In this place, beyond infections and noise and any distrac- tions, surgery had made for itself a house of research and a healing fastness. The... ... afraid of. Death!— nobody minds just death. Fowler is clever—but some day surgery will know its duty better and not be so anxious just to save someth...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...‘There, sir!’ replied the boy, pointing to the glass door leading into the surgery, with an expression of alarm which the very unusual apparition of a... ...y drew a green curtain across the glass part of the door, retired into the surgery, closed the door after him, and immediately applied one of his larg...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ds and small tradesmen, and might be seen any day reading the Times in the surgery, who openly declared himself the slave of Mrs. Osborne. He was a pe... ...f a fee. He would abstract lozenges, tamarinds, and other produce from the surgery-drawers for little Georgy’s benefit, and compounded draughts and mi...

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My Young Alcides

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...he barouche to have his leg examined. Harold said that his was self-taught surgery, but was assured that the dog would bear it better from him than an... ...nd one in common, one fitted as a clergyman’s study, the other more like a surgery; for though George had given up his public practice since he had be...

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The Herd Boy and His Hermit

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...old nurse, as well as the Prioress, had some knowledge of simple practical surgery; and Hal’s disasters proved to be a severe cut on the head, a slash...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...I must help to dress the lad’s wound; this Yankee* doctor knows nothing of surgery—I had to hold out Milligan’s leg for him, while he cut it off. Rich... ... freedom. “Don’t make the matter worse, ‘Duke, by pretending to talk about surgery,” interrupted Mr. Jones, with a contemp- tuous wave of the hand: “i... ... a shrewd mind, was com- fort ably applying his practice to his theory. In surgery, having the least experience, and it being a busi- ness that spoke ... ...d my grandfather before him, were both celebrated for their knowl- edge of surgery; they were not, like Marmaduke here, puffed up with an accidental t...

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The Sixth Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...he inner parts now gan to putrify, That quite they seem’d past helpe of surgery, And rather needed to be disciplinde With holesome reed...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... to become his valet, and had him taught all the arts of hair-dressing and surgery that were part of the profession of a gentleman’s body-servant; and... ...eparation to be Berenger’s valet, and thus to practise those minor arts of surgery then required in a superior body-servant. For his part, though his ... ...g him whenever his head seemed aching or heated; and under this well-meant surgery it was no wonder that he grew weaker every day , in spite of the mo... ...he husband so long supposed to be dead. She was curious to see her pupil’s surgery, of which she highly ap- proved, though she had no words to express...

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Arthurian Chronicles : Roman de Brut

By: Eugene Mason

...eople in their own tongues; he was wise in all that concerned medicine and surgery; but he was felon and kept bad faith. “Passent,” said Appas privily...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ds and small tradesmen, and might be seen any day reading the Times in the surgery, who openly declared himself the slave of Mrs. Osborne. He was a pe... ...f a fee. He would abstract lozenges, tamarinds, and other produce from the surgery-drawers for little Georgy’s benefit, and compounded draughts and mi... ... Polly sighed: she thought what she should do if young Mr. Tomkins, at the surgery, who always looked at her so at church, and who, by those mere aggr... ...arriage, dressed in the famous yellow shawl, by the young gentleman at the surgery, whose face might commonly be seen over the win- dow-blinds as she ... ...ition, was placed under the medical treatment of the young fellow from the surgery, under whose care she rallied after a short period. Emmy, when she ...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...in who calls himself the heir of 157 Balzac Charlemagne? Do you know that surgery and policy are at this moment sternly opposed to each other? Y es, ... ...gibbets. The poor old man was thrust between two sciences, astrol- ogy and surgery, both of which promised him the life of his son, for whom in all pr...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...rning even to read the brass plate on the door—so sure was I—I rang the bell and in- formed the servant maid that a stranger sought audience of Mr. Sp... ...r its present noble use, and have quietly settled themselves in it as its medical offic- ers and directors. Both have had considerable practical ex- p...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...came moody and quarrelsome of habit. He was for some time much more in the surgery and hospital than in the mess. He gave up the eating, for the most ...

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The First Men in the Moon

By: H. G. Wells

...o that place, and the elaborate discipline of train- ing and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neith...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

...to be God’s priest and minister. Many things one may leave to specialists: surgery, detailed admin- istration, chemistry, for example; but it is for e...

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Two Penniless Princesses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...shoulder. Both had sufficient experience in rough- 131 Yo n g e and-ready surgery, as well as sufficient strength, for them to be able to pull in the...

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The Secret Places of the Heart

By: H. G. Wells

...ble I don’t mind resorting to a drug. Given structural injury I don’t mind surgery. But ex- cept for any little mischief your amateur drugging may hav...

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The Moon and Sixpence

By: Somerset Maugham

...he’d kept on he’d be in the position I’m in now. That man had a genius for surgery. No one had a look in with him. When he was appointed Registrar at ...

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The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

...s, and afterwards his Christmas vacation when he went from school to study surgery in the London hospitals. Just as John Bold was entitled to write hi...

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