single-cotted

Updated: June 23, 2025

Occupying a small, single-cotted, electric-bell-less room in the outlying ward brick-lined and corrugated-iron-built like the greater building, and reserved for infectious cases the Reverend Julius might have been said to be marooned, had not his dark-eyed, transparent, wasted young face created such hot competition among the nurses for the privilege of attending on him, that he had frequently received breakfast and dinner in duplicate, and once three teas.

Richard Dehan - The Dop Doctor