(The warp and weft are at forty-five degrees to the stripes, because the stretcher is rotated.). From Wordnik.com. [James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian] Reference
In wet weather – and in Flanders mud – with shell holes everywhere, the wheeled stretcher is useless. From Wordnik.com. [War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps] Reference
As above noted, the squad for each stretcher is four men, and for a long carry this number is absolutely essential. From Wordnik.com. [War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps] Reference
When I called the stretcher-bearers and contemplated this picture, the big man raised himself on his elbow and said. From Wordnik.com. [The New Book of Martyrs] Reference
A Maori Battalion Officer at Casino where the going was treacherous called the stretcher bearers the bravest of the brave. From Wordnik.com. [NZ On Screen] Reference
A stretcher is a frame work that artist wrap their canvas on. From Wordnik.com. [the REAL cause of crop circles - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
He's there on the ground, to a stretcher, that is waiting nearby. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2007] Reference
A stretcher should be a serious injury - some sort of time penalty, but greater than five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Roar - Your Sports Opinion] Reference
"Buddhist people took him on a wooden stretcher, which is used for carrying a dead body for burial or cremation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Post RSS Feed] Reference
I have a sleeping bag with an eider-down inside it, for my bed; it is laid on a stretcher, which is placed in a roofed-in trench. From Wordnik.com. [Carry On Letters in War-Time] Reference
Bloomfield in the other boat suddenly discovers that his stretcher is a little weak, and insists on waiting till a new one is brought. From Wordnik.com. [The Willoughby Captains] Reference
Making a kind of stretcher of his napkin, he carried it back to the table and began to unwrap it. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
A cacolet is a kind of stretcher-bed with a rail round it, and a hood over the top to protect the occupant from the sun. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
I was carried over on a cot, or "stretcher," with blanket thrown over my face. From Wordnik.com. [A soldier's story : prison life and other incidents in the war of 1861-'65,] Reference
There was one thwart set as low as possible, a kind of stretcher in the bows, and a double paddle for propulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure Island] Reference
The terms "stretcher" and "Darcy Tucker" probably aren't mutually exclusive in the minds of most hockey fans; only this time it was the. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
Let us improvise some kind of stretcher, and get him on with us, men, for Heaven's sake. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
Friends helped me walk to the stretcher and I laid down. From Wordnik.com. [‘This Can’t Be Real’] Reference
At least one person was reportedly removed on a stretcher. From Wordnik.com. [Comic-Con 2010: A stabbing at the San Diego Convention Center] Reference
I thought Jerry would have to be carried out on a stretcher. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers: Matthew Broderick, Peter Jackson, Clay Aiken] Reference
Mrs. Kennedy helped agents and hospital attendants put the President on a stretcher. From Wordnik.com. [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference
"Look at Buddhni Bakshi," she says pointing to a bald teenage girl sleeping on a stretcher. From Wordnik.com. [Pointing Fingers At Mother Teresa's Heirs] Reference
Kline, strapped into a stretcher, was conscious through all of this-and increasingly agitated. From Wordnik.com. [Read an Excerpt From 'Sick'] Reference
"Two days later, I was shocked when her brother came back with Wang on a stretcher," says Yang. From Wordnik.com. [Finding Peace Of Mind] Reference
As a joke, he leaps onto the empty stretcher and rides it down the hall, away into flourescence. From Wordnik.com. [Waketaurs] Reference
They take the blue man out on a stretcher, stiff in cyanotic repose until the paramedics shake him. From Wordnik.com. [Lazarus argentatus] Reference
Lying on a stretcher, he turned away from his captors, imagining, perhaps, what awaited him in paradise. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Terrorist] Reference
Close behind, on another stretcher, came Connally, The Vice President followed, dazed and clutching his side. From Wordnik.com. [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference
One corporal, a stretcher bearer, told me there was also an American, swaddled like a child in blankets and bandages. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Ironically, the Great Depression came to the rescue: consumers took to the tape as a dollar-stretcher, to keep worn items in service. From Wordnik.com. [Sticky Stuff] Reference
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