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hospital wagon

noun as in ambulance

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He passed a hospital wagon, saw mounded limbs glowing whitely in the dark, a pile of legs, another of arms.

“Why, if they gits right sick, the hospital wagon comes and takes ’em to the Charity Hospital.”

Just as the hospital wagon reached 96 the procession the band struck up and the horse was frightened and jumped.

During a campaign against the Pawnee Indians, who were harassing the caravans of the Santa Fé traders, Colonel Leavenworth was taken sick with fever and died on July 21, 1834, in a hospital wagon at Cross Timbers in Indian Territory.

Do you know, Lucy," said General Ward to his wife one night when they were discussing Barclay and his ways and works, "sometimes I think that what that boy saw at Wilson's Creek,—the horrible bloodshed, the deadly spectacle of human suffering at the hospital wagon, some way blinded his soul's eye to right and wrong.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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