"Rest cure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... altogether lost its characteristics as a pleasure resort, for it was the place where the tired officers of the Belgian Army came for a rest cure. King Albert and the Queen frequently stayed at their residence here in their usual quiet, simple way. The Belgians told you with pride how their monarch could at any time be seen walking by himself about the streets of the town or along the country roads like any other officer ...
— The Seventh Manchesters - July 1916 to March 1919 • S. J. Wilson
... his nerves were completely shattered and he must have a rest cure in the form of being driven home by Felicity, he could not possibly ...
— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson
... mood for further confidences. "You'll find out fast enough 'oo Shorty is. 'E's down 'ere to-day. You watch that there periscope. This ain't no rest cure—this bit 'ere. ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile
... hysterics or the conviction. Generally she pretended to the latter, and swam or stumbled out, pulling down her veil to mask the rage and hatred in her haggard eyes, and went to that other man. Then, after a brief absence accounted for as a "rest cure," she would shine forth again upon her world, smiling, triumphant, prettier than ever, since she had begun to make up a little more. Or, as a woman who had passed through the Valley of the Shadow, with only her own rod and staff of vanity and pride to comfort her, ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves |
