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Convalescents would have resented and probably disobeyed an order to remain.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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Convalescents were turned over to the steward, and their meals were attended to by him and his assistants.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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Is a perfect food for Consumptives, Invalids and Convalescents, retained by the most delicate stomach.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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Convalescents are to have freedom from the irritations of hospital life that often retard recovery.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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Convalescents walked about with lagging steps and gloomy faces.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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Convalescents sit up in bed and painfully unravel their tattered socks for wool.
Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Convalescents who were able to walk flapped along in carpet slippers.
K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Convalescents from the hospital appeared in motley garments from the Ambulance Ocean and walked along the water front, where the sea, no longer gray and sullen, rolled up in thin white lines of foam to their very feet.
The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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WHEN Spencer Flagg laid the foundation-stone for the new million-dollar wing he was adding to the Flagg Home for Convalescents, on the hills above Greenwich, the New York Republic sent Sam Ward to cover the story, and with him Redding to take photographs.
The Red Cross Girl 1917
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Much as he might like to do so, he could not begin his story with: ` ` The Flagg Home for Convalescents is also the home of the most beautiful of all living women. ''
The Red Cross Girl 1917
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