lazaretto

• For several years the Brothers Minor may be said to have gone from lazaretto to lazaretto, preaching by day in the towns and villages, and retiring at night to these refuges, where they rendered to these patients of God the most repugnant services. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
• I traversed proudly under the escort of my guard of health the long space which separates the lazaretto, properly so called, from the parlour; and there I found, with very lively satisfaction, M. Pons, the director of the Observatory at Marseilles, and the most celebrated discoverer of comets of whom the annals of Astronomy have ever had to register the success. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• There is a very large lazaretto, which is said to be one of the best managed in the world. —  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
• And I don't answer We shall have to search the ship,' says the officer Sure,' I says, 'search away And they went and dropped straight into the cabin and made for the lazaretto, Durks waiting and whistling to himself on deck. —  Sonnie-Boy's People
• "They are stowed in the lazaretto, under this cabin We will have one of them up, and look into it," the captain said Joe, call a couple of hands down The trapdoor of the lazaretto was lifted. —  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)

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