item: #1 of 13 id: 13728 author: Ward, Humphry, Mrs. title: Marcella date: None words: 252891 flesch: 83 summary: But something in the bare, ugly rooms, the discipline, the teaching, the companionship of Miss Frederick's Cliff House School for Young Ladies, transformed little Marcella Boyce, for the time being, into a demon. Marcella _ought_ to be absorbed in her marriage; that is the natural thing. keywords: aldous; believe; betty; black; boyce; business; chair; children; come; course; court; dark; daughter; day; days; dear; door; end; eyes; face; father; feeling; fire; frank; friend; girl; good; great; half; hallin; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; hurd; husband; kind; know; labour; lady; lay; left; letter; life; like; little; london; look; lord; love; man; manner; marcella; marcella boyce; mary; matter; maxwell; mean; mellor; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; party; past; people; place; poor; power; present; public; raeburn; rest; room; round; saw; self; selina; sense; set; shall; sitting; sort; spoke; table; talk; tea; things; thought; time; tone; village; voice; want; way; week; westall; wharton; white; wife; window; winterbourne; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 13728.txt plain text: 13728.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 14506 author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell title: The White Linen Nurse date: None words: 48421 flesch: 84 summary: Are there any special antidotes for coffee? With a queer little quirk to his mouth the gruff Senior Surgeon jerked his glance back from the open window where with the gleam of a slim torn-boyish ankle the frisky young Spring went scurrying through the tree-tops. But the unheeding Senior Surgeon had already reached the piazza. keywords: bit; blue; car; child; course; day; eyes; face; father; forsyth; girl; good; great; hand; helene; home; house; instant; know; life; linen nurse; malgregor; man; mind; mouth; new; people; rae; right; room; senior; sir; superintendent; surgeon; time; voice; way; white; white linen; woman; work; young; zillah cache: 14506.txt plain text: 14506.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 15829 author: Beers, Fannie A. title: Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War date: None words: 101968 flesch: 74 summary: The matron's room at the hospital was called very often Soldiers' Rest, and sometimes The Promised Land, because many soldiers came there every day, and those newly convalescent made it a goal which they aspired to reach as soon as permitted. On the train were many soldiers whom I had nursed, and who cared for my comfort in every way possible under the circumstances. keywords: alabama; army; away; battery; battle; bed; boys; brave; camp; cause; chapter; comfort; command; company; confederate; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; duty; enemy; eyes; face; field; fire; flag; friends; general; good; grey; hand; head; heart; home; hope; hospital; house; husband; know; ladies; left; life; little; louisiana; man; men; morning; mother; mrs; nelly; new; night; officers; orleans; patients; place; richmond; road; room; service; set; sick; soldiers; southern; street; suffering; surgeons; thought; time; virginia; war; ward; water; wife; winnie; women; work; wounded; years cache: 15829.txt plain text: 15829.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 16567 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross date: None words: 42677 flesch: 83 summary: It was chubby little Uncle John who helped Jones carry the wounded man to the ambulance, where they managed to stretch him upon the floor. Finally he asked: Which is Mr. Merrick? Hearing his name, Uncle John bowed. keywords: ajo; belgian; beth; captain; carg; cross; day; doctor; face; french; german; girl; good; gys; john; jones; man; maud; maurie; merrick; patsy; red; ship; time; uncle; uncle john; war; way; wounded; young cache: 16567.txt plain text: 16567.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 18843 author: Porter, Mary F. title: Applied Psychology for Nurses date: None words: 38488 flesch: 67 summary: And this visioned perfect mind is one which adjusts itself without friction to the body, making it fulfil the laws of health that it may help and not hinder mind's progress; one which adjusts itself to people and things, co-operating with other minds to develop manners and customs and laws of the most satisfactory community living; one which forces things to be servants of its will; one which makes harmony of life by fulfilling the laws of the soul as well as of the intellect and of the body. dependent \ Illusion on sensation { found in normal mind--easily corrected; is always { found in many insanities. keywords: action; attention; body; brain; consciousness; desire; experience; feeling; good; health; judgment; life; man; memory; mind; new; nurse; patient; psychology; reason; self; sense; things; thinking; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 18843.txt plain text: 18843.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 31124 author: Bagnold, Enid title: A Diary Without Dates date: None words: 27364 flesch: 90 summary: All day long little men training to fill just such another hospital as ours with other little men. In all walks of life men keep one waiting. keywords: bed; corridor; day; door; eyes; face; hand; head; home; hospital; life; look; man; men; night; nurse; road; round; sister; tea; thought; time; v.a.d; ward; white; yesterday cache: 31124.txt plain text: 31124.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 32959 author: Sawyer, Ruth title: Leerie date: None words: 61604 flesch: 89 summary: Now hurry home to Marm and coax her hard, Hennessy. Because Sheila O'Leary invariably had her way among the many who loved and believed in her, and because Hennessy and Marm Hennessy were numbered conspicuously among these, Sheila and her adopted moved early the following morning into the diminutive and immaculate house of Hennessy, with a vine-covered porch in front and a hen-yard in the rear. Somehow he managed to scatter the crowd, and Sheila clung to the sleeve of his blue jumper as if it had been so much cork to a man overboard. keywords: boy; case; chief; day; days; doctor; door; eyes; face; girl; god; going; good; hand; head; heart; hennessy; jamie; leerie; left; life; lips; look; love; man; maxwell; mind; miss; monsieur; night; nurse; o'leary; peter; room; sanitarium; sheila; sheila o'leary; superintendent; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; words; work; world; years cache: 32959.txt plain text: 32959.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 36975 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: The Lost Heir date: None words: 122891 flesch: 82 summary: But there is nothing of that sort about him at all; he is just as high-spirited and is as bright and cheerful as other young men of about the same age, and it was only when he was with the General that his gentleness of manner recalled the fact that he was a doctor. Of course I am no judge whatever as to whether he is a good doctor, but I should think, from what Dr. Pearson says, that he must, in the opinion of other medical men, be considered an exceptionally clever man for his age; and having seen him for four months and lived in close contact with him, I would rather be attended by him than by anyone else I have ever met. keywords: barge; bill; body; case; child; course; covington; day; days; dear; doubt; general; girl; good; hand; hilda; home; house; john; leeds; left; life; man; mathieson; matter; men; miss; money; netta; people; pettigrew; place; present; purcell; roberts; room; simcoe; sort; things; thought; time; uncle; walter; want; way; woman; work; years cache: 36975.txt plain text: 36975.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 37463 author: Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson title: The Builders date: None words: 109478 flesch: 82 summary: I liked it very much, and so did Mrs. Blackburn, but Miss Blackburn really showed some temper because he would not change a line when she asked him to. Well, I thought that Miss Blackburn was right when she said the line was all out of character with the speaker; but Mrs. Blackburn did not agree with us, and when Mr. Wythe appealed to her, she said it was just perfect as it was, and that he must not dream of changing it. keywords: alan; angelica; blackburn; caroline; child; colfax; come; course; david; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; good; great; hair; hand; head; heart; hope; house; instant; letty; life; little; look; mammy; man; mary; meade; mind; minute; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; people; roane; room; things; think; thought; timberlake; time; voice; war; way; white; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 37463.txt plain text: 37463.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 38497 author: Edmonds, S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) title: Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields date: None words: 93489 flesch: 70 summary: They can concentrate many more men than I have, and are collecting troops from all quarters, especially well disciplined troops from the South. [Illustration: ACTING ORDERLY.--Page 178.] Upon arriving at the old saw-mill I found it crowded with wounded men who had crawled there from the battle-field, to have their wounds dressed if possible, and if not to lie down and suffer where the shot and shell could not reach them. keywords: army; away; battle; camp; chaplain; chapter; day; days; dead; death; duty; dying; enemy; eyes; face; feet; field; following; general; god; good; ground; hands; head; headquarters; heart; horse; hospital; hour; left; life; lines; man; march; mcclellan; men; moment; morning; mother; new; night; officers; order; place; position; rebel; return; saw; sick; soldiers; think; thought; time; troops; war; washington; water; way; white; work; wounded; young cache: 38497.txt plain text: 38497.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 40675 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Nurse Elisia date: None words: 76841 flesch: 92 summary: I beg your pardon, madam, said the nurse gently, you are placing me in a very awkward position, and I grieve to oppose you in your wishes, but I must obey my instruction from Mr Neil Elthorne. Mr Neil Elthorne would not degrade himself by noticing such a woman. keywords: alison; anne; aunt; boy; brother; dear; denton; door; elisia; elthorne; eyes; face; father; good; hand; isabel; look; man; maria; neil; nurse; poor; room; saxa; sir; thought; time; want; woman; young cache: 40675.txt plain text: 40675.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 43380 author: Lee, Jennette title: Aunt Jane date: None words: 55425 flesch: 97 summary: [Illustration] TO GERALD STANLEY LEE I Aunt Jane, what are you thinking of? Aunt Jane had been standing there for five minutes, gazing intently before her into space. keywords: aunt jane; bed; carmon; chair; come; day; door; eyes; face; flowers; good; hand; herman; look; man; medfield; miss; right; room; think; thought; woman cache: 43380.txt plain text: 43380.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 43898 author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe title: Florence Nightingale, the Angel of the Crimea: A Story for Young People date: None words: 33135 flesch: 79 summary: I do not know of any more jewels; but two gifts that Miss Nightingale prized highly were a fine case of cutlery sent her by the workmen of Sheffield, each knife blade inscribed with the words Presented to Florence Nightingale, 1857, and the silver-bound oak case inlaid with a representation of the Good Samaritan; and a beautiful pearl-inlaid writing desk, presented by her friends and neighbors near Lea Hurst. Anthony Babington in doublet and hose, with velvet mantle, feathered cap, and sword by his side; little Florence Nightingale in round Leghorn hat and short petticoats. keywords: chief; crimea; day; days; england; english; florence; florence nightingale; good; help; home; hospital; lady; lea; life; light; man; men; miss; miss nightingale; new; nightingale; nurses; people; poor; scutari; sick; soldiers; story; things; time; war; way; white; women; work cache: 43898.txt plain text: 43898.txt