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Updated: May 16, 2025
The gowns of the orderlies were stained and bespattered with blood and yellow picric acid. Each bucket was full of blood-sodden towels, splints, and bandages, with a foot, or a hand, or a severed knee-joint overhanging the rim. Two of us got pails of hot water and set to work with swabs, scrubbing brushes and soap.
The steward, who was paddling about all the time with swabs, trying to dry out the flooded cuddy, heard him exclaim "Hallo!" in a startled and dismayed tone. In the midst of his work the steward felt a sympathetic concern for the mate's distress. Captain Johns was secretly glad when he heard of the damage.
That will stop the racket. If they listen to me, I can still find a means of escape." "Avast yelpin', you swabs!" bellowed Coke. "D'ye want to let every bally sojer on the island know where you are? We're makin' for the creek. Will that please you? Now, Mr. Norrie, let her rip!" The head of the launch swung toward the protecting shadows.
Trelawney not told you of the buccaneers? He was one of them." "So?" cried Silver. "In my house! Ben, run and help Harry. One of those swabs, was he? Was that you drinking with him, Morgan? Step up here." The man whom he called Morgan an old, grey-haired, mahogany-faced sailor came forward pretty sheepishly, rolling his quid.
"Buckets! Swabs!" And then as the slime of mollusc, fish and seaweed was washed away, and the deck of the schooner rapidly grew white again, the skipper smiled and entered into a pleasant chat with the tired naturalist and his nephew.
"She was a kind lady," murmured Joe reflectively; "very good to me once upon a time." "Yes, that she was the best and kindest woman in the world; and that's just the reason why I'm glad to think she doesn't know what's become of me. Hallo, Swabs, what are you after?"
I've seen officers insulted and irritated, till no angel could put up with the treatment and then for an unguarded word, which they would have been swabs not to have made use of, sent out of the service to the devil." "But you forget, Swinburne, that the articles of war are made for the captain as well as for everybody else in the ship."
I've gone to a great deal of trouble to bring it about; your shipmates are a gutless crew, Roy, and I had begun to think I could not get a fight out of them. But the swabs are coming aft at the end of the mid-watch. Eight bells in the mid-watch count the bells, Roy. Eight bells elimination! "Then there will be just one loose end left and you know what I have planned for her!
With mouth parched with the stifling heat and dust, Jack sucked at the lukewarm dregs of his water-bottle, and wondered if the river itself would ever quench his thirst. "Swabs," his rear-rank man, kept fingering the loose cartridges in his pouch. At length the marksman's patience and sang froid seemed exhausted.
In the case of an operation carried out through unbroken skin, organisms may be introduced into the wound from the patient's own skin, from the hands of the surgeon or his assistants, through the medium of contaminated instruments, swabs, ligature or suture materials, or other things used in the course of the operation, or from the dressings applied to the wound.
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