McDougald nodded and put the ether cone over the soldier's face.

McDougald settled the ether cone over the wounded man's face.

He could recall the different sizes of the ether cones that Larch insisted upon making himself.

He began to talk about the mysterious gas that Dortha had given Margo in the ether cone.

Before the corporal could editorialize about that, McDougald stuck an ether cone over his face.

In one swift, practiced motion, McDougald put the ether cone over the soldier's face and turned the valve on the gas cylinder.

"I am leaving my wife and daughter so little . . ." said Walter Reed to his friend Kean, just before the ether cone went down over his face.

Dr. Gross's patient is anesthetized with an ether-soaked cloth on his face while Dr. Agnew's patient benefits from an ether cone, a far more controlled method of administering anesthesia.

Sometimes his face would hold so still under the ether cone that the mask would stay in place after his hand had dropped to his side; only the force of his exhalations would make the cone fall.