Use patient in a sentence
Sentences ending with patient
- But first I will see after our patient. [10]
- Be very careful what names you let fall before your patient. [3]
- How good you were, and how patient! [8]
- The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing, so patient. [5]
- Our great physician, Thutmes, came to enquire after his patient. [10]
- Mr. Upham says they--that is, some of them--were in the habit of attributing their want of success to the fact, that an "evil hand" was on their patient. [3]
- My mother was the patient. [5]
- Considers it proved that puerperal fever maybe propagated by the hands and the clothes, or either, of a third person, the bed-clothes or body-clothes of a patient. [3]
- Under his great sorrow he was always patient. [14]
- Some were awed, some were overpoweringly interested, some were cruelly patient. [11]
Short sentences using patient
- Well!...Let us be patient. [13]
- He would be patient. [11]
- He was very patient. [11]
- He has been patient. [11]
- Lying in bed, patient, gentle. [6]
- Be patient, little comrade. [11]
- But let us be patient. [7]
- Just wait, and be patient. [5]
- He said: "Sit--and be patient. [5]
- You ought to be patient! [7]
Sentences containing patient two or more times
- And the other who will play--the wife of Francois Rives shall see if she will wait; but she must be patient, more patient than her husband was ten years ago. [11]
- The practical point to be illustrated is the following: The disease known as Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses. [3]
- It is probable that he knew that, and refrained from letting her into the knowledge of this vice, contracted in the war when, seriously ill, he was able to drag himself about from patient to patient only by the help of opium. [11]
- I wish your Susie was with you to cheer you up; but no, she must be patient, and you must be patient too, for you are so ambitious! [6]
- But he was patient, endlessly patient. [5]
- It has been long believed, by many competent observers, that Puerperal Fever (so called) is sometimes carried from patient to patient by medical assistants. [3]
- For true love is unselfish and patient, and where it is the stronger, it cares for the weaker; but it was your wife who was unselfish, patient, and cared for you. [11]
More example sentences with the word patient in them
- Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
- The rewards of your long and patient industry are on their way, and their arrival safe in port, presently, seems assured. [5]
- Perhaps his patient would try to beat him down, and Doctor Benjamin made up his mind to have the whole or nothing. [6]
- How much rock would have to be cut away, how much patient chipping before the edifice of which he had been dreaming could be reared! [9]
- As the patient would be confined for a good while, he might find it dull work to sit with his hands in his lap. [6]
- Scornful and mocking words were being uttered by the king; Neithotep looked exultant.--In these visions Nebenchari was so lost, that one of the Persian doctors was obliged to point out to him that his patient was awake. [10]
- She did it with the greatest caution, but her fingers had hardly touched her, when Selene shrank back with a groan, and before she could undo the sandal, the patient had fainted away. [10]
- Sunset came, bringing with the end of her labor a patient calmness and power to wait that had not been hers earlier in the day. [13]
- I'll sit up with my patient the rest of the night, doctor; I can't trust Nancy, she couldn't make Luigi take the medicine. [5]
- If he agrees with most of them, let him be patient with an opinion he does not accept, or an expression or illustration a little too vivacious. [6]
- Our world, too, with all its breathing life, is but a leaf to be folded with the other strata, and if I am only patient, by and by I shall be just as famous as imperious Caesar himself, embedded with me in a conglomerate. [6]
- Monsieur Auguste smiled with a patient tolerance. [9]
- Dear, faithful reader, whose patient eyes have followed my reports through these long months, you and I are about parting company. [6]
- Once in a while you will have a patient of sense, born with the gift of observation, from whom you may learn something. [3]
- He knew that when men live lives of patient, gloomy vigilance, they generally have something to watch and guard. [11]
- All these dispositions were quickly and quietly made, and everything was ready for the transfer of the patient to the house of the hospitable physician. [6]
- If the patient were brought into a warm room, heat would be applied very rapidly, were not something interposed to prevent this, and allow its gradual admission. [3]
- The patient gets well by the use of arnica in a little more than a month longer, and this extraordinary fact is published in the French "Archives of Homoeopathic Medicine. [3]
- In the same way, that other realist, M. Zola, has painted a patient suffering from delirium tremens, the disease known to common speech as "the horrors. [6]
- As the patient was to sit up in the evening, he appointed to visit her in her room at a certain hour, and rambling out with his book, did not return until the hour arrived. [12]
- The other patient was seized with a rigor the third morning after delivery. [3]
- The old physician was not dissatisfied with the condition of his patient, but ordered the widow to lie down for a time and to leave the care of her for a few hours to her young friend. [10]
- Now the smile was all too often there, the patient smile which comes to those who have suffered. [11]
- Immediately after the war of 1812, tourists began to come to America, from England; scattering ones at first, then a sort of procession of them--a procession which kept up its plodding, patient march through the land during many, many years. [5]
- Of his own want of health, however, he never complains; he maintains a patient spirit in the ill turns of fortune, and his impatience in the business complications is that of a man hindered from his proper career. [4]
- Barrow early gave up the idea of trying to convince Tracy that he hadn't any father, because this had such a bad effect on the patient, and worked up his temper to such an alarming degree. [5]
- Their patient was unlike any other that they had known. [11]
- This patient remained two days in the expectation that labor would come on, when she returned home and was then suddenly taken in labor and delivered before she could set out for the hospital. [3]
- A patient comes to you with asthma and wants to know where he can breathe; another comes to you with phthisis and wants to know where he can live. [3]
- They brought Farette to the house at last, and she was patient while he ogled her, and smoked his strong tabac, and tried to sing. [11]
- You have only to open your own Bible at the ninth chapter of St. John's Gospel, and you will find that the logic of a restored patient was very simple then, as it is now, and very hard to deal with. [3]
- He is apt to magnify his calling, to make much of any symptom which will bring a patient within range of his battery of remedies. [6]
- But it occurred to him that he might as well have the marble he had just thrown away, and therefore he went and made a patient search for it. [5]
- I didn't expect to have a patient in the middle of the plains. [11]
- I told him to go home and be patient, this wasn't the end. [5]
- The patient accustomed to four meals and late hours--at both ends of the day--now consider what he has to do at a health resort. [5]
- After passing the time of day, as was his custom, the patient freely discussed the motives which had led him to refuse any more of Victoria's fruit. [9]
- He waited patient till Faddo had done, then he comes round the settle, puts his pipe up in the rack between the rafters, and steps in front of Faddo. [11]
- Out of this throng in the streets I like to select the meek, patient, diminutive little donkeys, with enormous panniers that almost hide them. [4]
- I have been thinking of a summer tour, and I will at once set out upon it, and leave this patient in my father's hands. [6]
- On their return they were told that their patient had been better that afternoon than for three months. [5]
- It was with these views that I never reported any patient cured at our hospital. [6]
- He had earned them all by the most faithful and patient labor. [6]
- My companions expressed their admiration in subdued and reverent tones, and at the tinkling of the bell we reverently tiptoed out of the room to admit another delegation of the patient waiters at the door. [5]
- For obvious reasons the whole name was not given in the original paper, and for similar reasons the date of the event and the birthplace of the patient are not precisely indicated here. [6]
- He watched beside the sick-bed till the dawn stared in and his patient stirred and waked, then he took Ingolby's hand, grown a little cooler, in both his own. [11]
- The seclusion of the patient was required until after the first meal. [5]
- The next day the patient was no better, she was evidently sinking. [4]
- No matter whether the patient is right or wrong, it is a great impertinence to think you have any property in him. [3]
- It was like the patient fellah, when the Arabs, in pursuit of Wyndham and his Gippies, suddenly cut in between him and the house, to deliver himself over to the conqueror, with his hand upon his head in sign of obedience. [11]
- That was when the patient died--and you didn't. [11]
- I don't doubt the medicament is quite as good as the patient deserves, and probably a great deal better,--I added, reinforcing my feeble compliment. [6]
- Only I dread the last hour, and still more the long eternity which will follow it, for the good, patient woman entered the snare of the Satanic Protestant doctrine, and will not hear of taking the holy sacrament. [10]
- The darkened room, the labored breathing and occasional moanings of the patient, the tip-toeing of the attendants and their whispered consultations, were full of sad meaning. [5]
- Be patient with the book-collector who loves his companions too well to let them go. [3]
- The physician in the Arabian Nights made his patient play at ball with a bat, the hollow handle of which contained drugs of marvellous efficacy. [6]
- I don't know that you must break any bones in a poet's mechanism before his thought can dance in rhythm, but read your Milton and see what training, what patient labor, it took before he could shape our common speech into his majestic harmonies. [6]
- Woman is all that she should be gentle, patient, longsuffering, trustful, unselfish, full of generous impulses. [5]
- I was aware that she had a great anxiety on her mind at this time; and being acquainted with its nature, I could not but deeply admire the patient docility which she displayed in her conduct towards her father. [14]
- The surgeons said that pretty often a patient was compelled to laugh, in the midst of his pangs, but that had never caught one crying out, after the open-air exhibition was instituted. [5]
- I think now that it was a cowardly thing to crack the patient old fellows over the face and eyes, and make them wink in their meek manner. [4]
- Mr. Roberton says that in one instance within his knowledge a practitioner passed the catheter for a patient with puerperal fever late in the evening; the same night he attended a lady who had the symptoms of the disease on the second day. [3]
- So it was that he had passed his life in the patient mechanical labor of instruction, leaving too many of his instincts and faculties in abeyance. [6]
- It is likely that a fish has not been caught on that lake pier for forty years; but no matter, the patient fisher watches his cork there all the day long, just the same, and seems to enjoy it. [5]
- I had to telegraph and countermand the order for special sleeping car; and in fact we all had to fly around in a lively way and undo the patient preparations of weeks--rehabilitate the dismantled house, unpack the trunks, and so on. [5]
- The Moors of Tangier have so degenerated that it has been long since there was an artificer among them capable of curing so delicate a patient as a debilitated clock. [5]
- Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the Sphynx? [5]
- If the graver symptoms recur while the patient is under our observation, we propose to make use of an agency discredited by modern skepticism, but deserving of a fair trial as an exceptional remedy for an exceptional disease. [6]
- Nay, her heart swelled with grateful joy because she had been so patient and suffered nothing to divert her from the arduous duty which she had undertaken in nursing the old man, who regarded her with such disfavour. [10]
- I love our sweet, patient Bathsheba,--yes, and the old man that has spoken so kindly with me, good Master Gridley; I hate to give you pain,--to leave you all,--but my way of life is killing me, and I am too young to die. [6]
- It recognizes and supports the belief that a series of cases may originate from a single primitive source which affects each new patient in turn; and especially from cases of Erysipelas. [3]
- The assistant was supporting another patient, who died soon afterwards; he felt the pungent heat upon his skin, and was taken immediately with the symptoms of typhus. [3]
- Long had it stood there, patient, unpretentious, content that the great things should pass it by! [9]
- He did not speak, for he interpreted the look aright, and he was going to be patient, to wait. [11]
- His rescued patient sounds his praises, and a wide circle of his patient's friends joins in a chorus of eulogies. [6]
- But you will soon be well, so we must be as patient and cheerful as we can. [11]
- He had contracted somewhat the circle of his acquaintance by what some people called his rudeness, but most people treated it as his oddity, and were patient with it. [8]
- In many instances some of the data, through the patient questioning of fellow collectors, has been obtained and supplied. [5]
- Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger. [5]
- But just as slumber was completely overpowering him his patient made him start up, for he had left his bed, and when Hermon, fully roused, looked for him, was standing in the middle of the room, gazing about him. [10]
- The reputation is slowly built up, as by a patient process of nature. [4]
- By the bedside sits the doctor, patient, silent, and watchful. [4]
- The young Councillor silently followed the physician to the sick bed, at whose head leaned a Gray Sister, who was one of the guests of The Blue Pike and had volunteered to nurse the patient. [10]
- Shon broke the silence, by a whisper to Lawless: "Jo was a quiet man, as patient as a priest; but when his blood came up, there was trouble in the land. [11]
- I wish to show, in the most patient and painstaking way, what a wonderful science it is. [5]
- Gardiner had his shoulders and I his legs; in an unfortunate moment I stumbled and the patient fell heavily on the bed in an agony of torture. [5]
- Patient, the doctor should side with either party according to whether the old miser or his expectant heir was his employer. [6]
- As a rule she put her day through calm, alert, patient, fencing with those veteran masters of scholarly sword-play and coming out always without a scratch. [5]
- Oh, so patient she is, this imperturbable Nature! [6]
- As soon as she felt one hand was hot, she put the other in its place; and it must have relieved the patient, for his moans ceased by degrees, and he finally said, gratefully: "What good that does me! [10]
- Then calling Pulcheria, she begged her to tend her patient, too, for a short time. [10]
- The Young Doctor seemed to reflect, and his face became urbane, because he saw he must proceed warily, if he was to be of service to his new patient. [11]
- He did not see this patient after the 20th, being confined to the house, and very sick from the wound just mentioned, from this time until the 3d of April. [3]
- The patient anchorite sat down again on the stone seat. [10]
- On the whole, Samuel Clemens was surprisingly patient and considerate with Orion, and there was never a time that he was not willing to help. [5]
- It is the same thing with the patient. [6]
- On this particular sakkia had been wont to sit all day a patient fellah, driving the blindfolded buffaloes in their turn. [11]
- The water is running water, and changes all the time, else a patient with a ringworm might take the bath with only a partial success, since, while he was ridding himself of the ringworm, he might catch the itch. [5]
- Sister Hyacinthe now ruled alone in the sickroom, and the calm face of the nun, whose cap concealed hair already turning gray, exerted as soothing an influence upon the patient as her low, pleasant voice. [10]
- Hannah left the room, and her voice presently mingled with those of the other persons outside, and when she returned her cheeks were flushed and she could not find fitting words in which to tell her patient what she had to say. [10]
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