Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the main northern roads in the ebb tide of British Empire our progress was blocked by a leaderless, directionless stream of helpless, pleading, praying, begging, cursing refugees seeking food and comfort and aid to reach India. At other times, at the orders of Stilwell, we plunged into the thickest jungles, striking across unknown trails where the only sounds were the screaming of hordes of unseen monkeys and the slitherings of the brightest green poisonous snakes. Alternately scorched by terrific heat under which several of our party faint ed, and drenched by tropical rains, our ranks were affected by dysentery...
...long ago that my man Jeeves was reading me some fearful tripe Plum seemed to have written in some transatlantic mag-Saturday Afternoon Post, was it? Some such name. Well, anyhow, some ghastly nonsense about Fascism not mattering as long as it lets one live in comfort. Y'know, sometimes," said Bertie, hitching his R.A.F. uniform to ease the Wooster rump into a more comfortable posture, "sometimes I think Old Plum is getting a bit overripe. An aunt of mine...
...Hart. "I promise to take an interest in the civic affairs of Boston," he told Trinity when he went there, "but not to preach about them." Politics, economics and the war find small place in his sermons. Says he: "There is so little time to bring the comfort and guidance of religion into the daily lives of my congregation . . . [it] cannot be done if one's theme is political...
There was more than comfort for the mothers of America in what Admiral Nimitz said. There was also, perhaps unwittingly, an expression of his own lot as Commander of the Fleet whose task force had just won the battle he helped to plan...
Miseries of Human Life, which shows a massive nurse slouched by a fire while her patient struggles in bed. The legend: ". . . humors of a hired Nurse who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort . . . stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat-slops you as you lie with scalding possets [milk & ale] ... falls into a dead sleep the moment before you want her, and then snores you down when you call...