Hichens
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"That means when they are ready to be discharged it can be done pretty much straight away for many," says Hichens.
From BBC
Hichens says she spends much of her time persuading the family members of patients that they would be happier elsewhere - and healthier too.
From BBC
"It's terrible when you see patients go downhill in hospital when you know they would be better off somewhere else," says Laura Hichens, a nurse who leads the "discharge liaison" team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.
From BBC
Memoirs by Bernard Shaw and Vincent O’Sullivan, as well as Max Beerbohm’s caricatures, revealed additional facets of Wilde — notably his conversation, courtesy and increasing corpulence — while Robert Hichens’s 1895 novel, “The Green Carnation,” neatly satirized him as the witty Esme Amarinth.
From Washington Post
Just filling in a few gaps, I’d rationalize, when settling down with George MacDonald’s mind-boggling, death-obsessed fantasy “Lilith” or Robert Hichens’s sendup of Oscar Wilde, “The Green Carnation,” or James Elroy Flecker’s apocalyptic 1908 novella, “The Last Generation.”
From Washington Post
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