Pippa Middleton

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.

British Celebrity

Carl Froch

Boxing is not like any other sport, you have to weigh up the risk and reward. Things like playing football, tennis, you might be three sets to love down, but boxing you're going to the hospital on a stretcher and you know potentially you are going to get an injury you can't walk away from.

English Athlete

Jofra Archer

Seeing someone go down, you don't ever want to see anyone getting carried off on a stretcher or you don't want to see anyone missing a day or another game.

Belarusian Cricketer

Naftali Bennett

As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

Israeli Politician

James Turrell

To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

American Artist

Oliver Reed

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

English Actor

Vera Lynn

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

British Musician

Used when talking about medical or rescue emergencies requiring immobilization and transport.

Emergency Situations

Refers to the equipment paramedics or hospitals use, not a common household item.

Medical Equipment

Means for safely moving patients who cannot walk on their own.

Mobility Assistance

Used by artists to prepare and secure the canvas before painting.

Art Preparation

Ensures the painting surface is firm and tight, not loose.

Taut Canvas

A fundamental piece of equipment for traditional canvas painting.

Essential Tool

Refers to the visible, long side of a brick when laid in a wall.

Masonry Term

Stretcher refers to a common brick-laying pattern for stable walls.

Brick Pattern

In this context, nothing to do with stretching clothes or fabric.

Not Clothing

 Doctors are called, and they think it's so serious that prayers are said for him in the local church. And it's only when they're preparing to return this young man home so that he can die, that they realize what's going on, because once they lift him onto the stretcher, his breathing becomes less labored. And by the time he's got to the gates of his hometown,

The history of human...

 was very devastating for me. I have a very clear image of leaving the base hospital on a stretcher and my entire platoon is waiting outside to see if I was OK. And then, suddenly, I was a civilian again. I knew I wanted to give acting another shot, because -- again, this is me --

My journey from Marine...

 and I'd been able to breathe a little more now, because the blood has left, had been filling up my lungs and I was having a very hard time breathing, but now it's kind of gone into the stretcher. And I said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Ed Gavagan: A story...

 just just trying to expose the flesh so it'll dry out I'd like to just tack them on gently first the final thing you do take up the stretcher here you stick that up in there if you don't do that the skin dries so tight that you won't

Marten Hat PIPE Life Below...

 a wonderful three-dimensional view of decorating the body and we think some of the most transforming and dramatic theatrical designs are coming when these fine eye masks are combined with these extraordinary clay earlobe stretchers

Carol Beckwith & Angela...

 to breathe a little more now because that the blood has left my had been filling up my lungs and I was having a very hard time breathing but now it's kind of gone into the stretcher and I said is there anything I can do to help

A story about knots and...

 we know that in addition to people being cremated at death that in some cases bodies were actually exposed and we may have stretchers that actually supported platforms on which bodies were were set

New Stonehenge Discovery...

 look at you two awesome I'd like to sound glad I chose that place let's get the stretch in wait we're rolling one time onto the stretcher are we ready together one two three okay

Buffalo Bull is Safely...

 that monitors sturgeon caught on the Columbia 125 subtracting the weight of the stretcher that makes this fish 115 pounds

Sturgeon Surgery PIPE...

 big enough here where they can get the stretcher a gurney or something like that so they can complete their recovery