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  • How could he hope that he, a humble assistant-surgeon, with a thousand pounds his Aunt Kitty left him for all his fortune — how could he hope that one of the race of Molloyville would ever condescend to marry him?

    Mens Wives 2006

  • He was also assistant-surgeon at a small hospital which was maintained in that town, and held two or three other similar public positions, all of which attested his respectability and general proficiency.

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • Several of the men from the ranks did equally well, especially a young doctor from New York, Harry Thorpe, who had enlisted as a trooper, but who was now made acting assistant-surgeon.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • The sumpitan was likewise freely employed by these pirates; but although several of our men belonging to the pinnace were struck, no fatal results ensued, from the dextrous and expeditious manner in which the wounded parts were excised by Mr. Beith, the assistant-surgeon; any poison that might remain being afterward sucked out by one of the comrades of the wounded men.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • So did the master and purser and Mr McGilpin, the assistant-surgeon; the latter saying that he had no stomach for consorting with "the meeletary," they being "a maist feckless set o 'loons."

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • Gratefully he acknowledged what the surgical art of assistant-surgeon Dr. Meyer had done to lessen his sufferings, and the loving care the German nurses, male and female, had bestowed on him and his comrades.

    The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship

  • His head had been already shaved before I descended, and I found the assistant-surgeon, an Irishman, Mr. Peter

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

  • Dr. Simpson, assistant-surgeon; Mr. Hallowes, midshipman; 14 seamen, and 5 marines.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • He was appointed assistant-surgeon to the Greenwich hospital in 1832, and served as naval surgeon first in the _Grampus_, and afterwards for many years in the

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • "Whuskey," replied the assistant-surgeon, a rawboned expert from

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

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