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... Switzerland. I have seen the cure—a good man. He has told me all there is to tell. I found him at the hospice, busy with his oeuvre de bienfaisance. He led me ...

— Behind the Beyond - and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge • Stephen Leacock

... they had been, And had lodged in the Hospice instead of the Inn, My good little women and men, Why then you never would have heard, This tale of the ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... royal mount. The population of each equalled the number that went up out of Egypt, except that of three cities in which that number was doubled. And these three cities were Caphar Bish (literally, the village of evil), so called because there was no hospice for the reception of strangers therein; Caphar Shichlaiim (village of water-cresses), so called because it was chiefly on that herb that the people subsisted; Caphar Dichraya (the village of male children), so called, says Rabbi Yochanan, because its women first gave birth to boys, and afterward ...

— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... George Washington and certain barefooted companions had forced a proud Britain to her knees, and much of the warring in the book took color from Captain Timothy Prescott's stories of General Stark and his campaigns, heard at Jonah Winch's store. What Paris looked like, or Berlin, or the Hospice of St. Bernard—though imaged by a winter Coniston—troubled Jethro not at all; the thing that stuck in his mind was that Napoleon—for a considerable time, at least—compelled men to do his bidding. Constitutions crumble before the Strong. Not that Jethro philosophized about constitutions. ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... through the Alps, I stopped there one cold night, almost frozen. The good monks welcomed me to their hospice, as they do all strangers who stop for food and shelter, and treated me as kindly as if I had been a brother. In the morning one of them took me out to the kennels, and showed me the dogs that are trained to look for travellers in the snow. You may imagine with what pleasure ...

— The Story of the Red Cross as told to The Little Colonel • Annie Fellows-Johnston

Words linked to "Hospice" : medical care, lodging, housing, medical aid, living accommodations