Colles

When she finally got off duty at nine, she was in a thoroughly bad temper, what with Mr. Baker delivering lectures about the art of diagnosing, while pronouncing on obvious concussion fit to go home, and calling a Colles 'fracture a Potts'.

Damsel In Green Neels, Betty 1970

Apparently, I have something called a Colles’ fracture, where one bone is pushed into the other.

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2004

A reply came from Colles, addressed not to me but to Japp.

Prester John 2005

I was leaving two men behind me, Colles at Durban and Aitken at Lourenco Marques, who would help me if trouble came.

Prester John 2005

If I was given the post, Colles was bound to consider what I had said in my earlier letter and give me some directions.

Prester John 2005

Then there was what Colles had told me about the place being queer, how nobody would stay long either in the store or the schoolhouse.

Prester John 2005

Colles must have told him that I was awake to some danger, and as I was in

Prester John 2005

He was very anxious to know if I had seen Colles in Durban, and what the manager had said.

Prester John 2005

My deduction from this was that some one wished to send me a message, and that Colles had given that some one a sheet of signed paper to serve as a kind of introduction.

Prester John 2005

Colles told me that you were a keen fellow, and had wind of some mystery here.

Prester John 2005