"First aid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wasn't talking to you," she sighed. "I was just—just administering first aid to the injured," she finished, as she whisked into ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... gave first aid to the injured, Tom and Ned put new bolts in place of the broken ones on the bed-plate, and they tested them to see that they were perfect. New ones were also substituted for the two that had been strained, and in the course of an hour ...
— Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight • Victor Appleton
... Italy, America that existed before 1914 is almost a universal sentiment; yet when we read the verse composed during those days of prosperous tranquillity, when youth seemed comic rather than tragic, we find that half the poets spent their time in lamentation, and the other half in first aid. An enormous number of lyrics speak as though despondency were the normal condition of men and women; are we really all sad when alone, engaged in reading or writing? "Every man is grave alone," said ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... putting the bones as nearly as possible in position and then binding them firmly in place. He paid no more attention to the agitated comments of those about him than he had paid to the whizzing bullets when he rendered first aid to a fallen comrade in No ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... then I cannot say, but I imagine that the woodcutter, stricken with remorse, whipped up his bandana from the ground, and did all that lay in his power—though he had not had the advantages of lessons in first aid—to stop the bleeding. One cannot help being amused at these marvellous stories, but, after all, they are not very much more wonderful than many of one's own ghostly experiences. At any rate, they serve to illustrate how widespread ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell
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