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  • Besides, the physician might declare the ailment feigned; and Milady, after having lost the first trick, was not willing to lose the second.   (source)
  • I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind: a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears; no sooner had I wiped one salt drop from my cheek than another followed.   (source)
  • Tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, anemia, eye ailments, and festering wounds were widespread.†   (source)
  • I tried to explain to him that for me, a vacation does not involve certain hardships including, but not limited to, mosquitoes, vaccinations, poor plumbing, or stomach ailments.†   (source)
  • Though her health had improved somewhat since I'd left for the Marines, she still took a dozen medications and made quarterly trips to the hospital for various ailments.†   (source)
  • And I'll go and check Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions….†   (source)
  • Maybe it was a home with a chronically ill relative who was interested in regular examination by a young person who would listen endlessly to ailments and take precise notes.†   (source)
  • An ailment, nothing more.†   (source)
  • It bled and hurt, but my other ailments were already causing me so much trouble that I let this one slide, which was stupid of me, because now I'm walking around with an infected toe.†   (source)
  • It seems she's not well—a back ailment, I believe—and your grandfather is looking after her.†   (source)
  • The benches are always packed with people talking about their ailments.†   (source)
  • They'd take BC for any ailment.†   (source)
  • He listens to your ailments, then tells you whether you need to buy a pill, a good-luck charm, or just go home and forget about it.†   (source)
  • Ruth's only refuge was the bathroom, and perhaps for this reason she developed numerous stomach ailments that year.†   (source)
  • With the pain comes another pain, a pain far greater than any physical ailment I could ever be afflicted with: the memory of the hours before.†   (source)
  • His ailments, his frustration, and the mounting intensity of the work taxed his spirits and caused him to feel older than his age.†   (source)
  • In it we see so much: the parental attempt to save the child and the grief at having failed, the cure that proves as deadly as the ailment, the youthful exuberance that leads to self-destruction,the clash between sober, adult wisdom and adolescent recklessness, and of course the terror involved in that headlong descent into the sea.†   (source)
  • She was a practical woman who believed there was a root either to chew or avoid for every ailment.†   (source)
  • Since her ailment compromised the safety of the others, we took up the problem in caucus.†   (source)
  • But the dramatic and catastrophic injuries in a slaughterhouse are greatly outnumbered by less visible, though no less debilitating, ailments: torn muscles, slipped disks, pinched nerves.†   (source)
  • She was still young then in Watts, in her thirties, but she had all these ailments.†   (source)
  • But a person doesn't search for months and months to corner the solution to some daily little ailment.†   (source)
  • Although he was still, of course, a professional of the highest class, he was now in his seventies and much ravaged by arthritis and other ailments.†   (source)
  • Several years ago our Committee engaged a specialist in nervous ailments, Dr. Simon Jordan, who came very highly recommended.†   (source)
  • "You've misspelled 'ailments'," I pointed out.†   (source)
  • But it was only his usual ailment.†   (source)
  • You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments.†   (source)
  • In chapter 2, Todd is called "Pastor Job" after being struck by a series of physical ailments—a broken leg, kidney stones, and breast cancer.†   (source)
  • When Marley began to develop rough scaly patches on his elbows, I feared he was developing some rare and, for all we knew, contagious skin ailment.†   (source)
  • Later, at the table, I listen to him make idle conversation with the old senator about the various ailments they have both suffered.†   (source)
  • …. very nature of his ailment continues to baffle me, and baffle us all.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, they tended to shrug when patients died from ailments like measles or tetanus or tb.†   (source)
  • He questioned Morzan's healers and forced them to describe your mother's ailments.†   (source)
  • For Tex and Flo, both forced by ailments to retire from their occupation, settled near Reno, Nevada.†   (source)
  • It had worked for me in the past, easing the discomfort of various ailments, and I hoped it would be effective now, for I was desperate to find relief.†   (source)
  • But shortly beforehand, the two men died—hours apart, in the same hospital, of a similar respiratory ailment.†   (source)
  • But she felt a measure of pride at finally enduring the standard African ailment.†   (source)
  • I wait to see if he will beg her to reconsider, if he will pledge his love in spite of her ailment.†   (source)
  • Ashley never laughed before like she did with Sumner; she'd always been kind of pouty and quiet, always with a stomachache or some ailment, real or imagined.†   (source)
  • At first I thought that she had one of those strange ailments women get from time to time, or else her menopause, but when it persisted for several weeks I decided we'd better have a talk.†   (source)
  • Yossarian had so many ailments to be afraid of that he was sometimes tempted to turn himself in to the hospital for good and spend the rest of his life stretched out there inside an oxygen tent with a battery of specialists and nurses seated at one side of his bed twenty-four hours a day waiting for something to go wrong and at least one surgeon with a knife poised at the other, ready to jump forward and begin cutting away the moment it became necessary.†   (source)
  • Men, women, and children continued to die from these ailments and from the relentlessly frigid nights.†   (source)
  • A benign cyst, it wasn't a life-threatening ailment, but it was unsightly, to say the least.†   (source)
  • But all I saw was a mosquito sprayer on back of an old pickup, which blared its siren every few minutes to warn the old people with lung ailments that it was comin' through.†   (source)
  • But she was not someone who went in for one-night stands, although she did think that sex was an underrated therapy for just about all ailments.†   (source)
  • The nature of his wife's ailment, however, was never explained.†   (source)
  • We learned much about how to ease common ailments and injuries, and though we were loath to turn aside from our main work, somehow we found ourselves sought out for the kinds of preparations the Gowdies once so readily supplied.†   (source)
  • Mother complained about her ailments, and this time I knew it was no longer a performance.†   (source)
  • At suppertime my mother came in to ask if I were ill, and being too slow-witted to invent an ailment, I got up and went down to the meal.†   (source)
  • As her husband does with his physical ailments, Jackie Kennedy keeps her smoking a secret—during the recent presidential campaign, an aide was charged with staying within arm's reach with a lighted cigarette so Jackie could sneak a puff any time she wanted.†   (source)
  • He died five years ago, of a heart ailment from which he had suffered for some time.†   (source)
  • She knew them all, and had a remedy for any ailment of which I have ever heard.†   (source)
  • Speak now in plain words and let us pursue the ailment to the home of remedies.†   (source)
  • Currently director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his research focuses on HIV/AIDS, asthma, allergies, and other ailments.†   (source)
  • I would sometimes affect similar ailments to my mother's and try to mimic her, stay in my room whole weekends with a pile of picture books or puzzles, never changing out of my pajamas.†   (source)
  • The slaves used them to cure all sorts of ailments, fevers and intestinal disorders.†   (source)
  • "Travis," said Cotton, rising and coming to stand next to his friend, "have you ever treated Louisa Cardinal for any ailments before this last one?"†   (source)
  • He listed his ailments, his many scattered worries.†   (source)
  • Their ailments ranged from infected battle wounds to whooping cough, diabetes, and sinusitis.†   (source)
  • His various ailments.†   (source)
  • Patients talk endlessly about their ailments.†   (source)
  • He claimed no intricate or extensive medical knowledge, and had no use for the lay habit of venturing amateur diagnoses of illness; his training had, however, made him more than ordinarily enlightened about the chemical vagaries and ailments of the human body, and so the moment he first laid eyes on Sophie ("this sweetie," he murmured with enormous concern and gentleness, twisting the lock of her hair) he guessed, with dead accuracy as it turned out, that her ravaged appearance was the…†   (source)
  • WHEN I was six or seven, I was taken out of school and put to bed for several months for an ailment the doctor described as "fast-beating heart."†   (source)
  • The only two ailments the French will admit to are that and a bad liver.†   (source)
  • Whatever he knew about his ailment, my father made no concessions to it.†   (source)
  • The young officer sat in thought for a moment revolving in his mind the shopping, the ailments of the baby, the milk supply.†   (source)
  • In between he had almost every other conceivable ailment.†   (source)
  • We learned how to bleed men to cure them of all ailments.   (source)
    ailments = illnesses
  • Colic, perhaps, or some other innocuous ailment.†   (source)
  • John and Lou had picked up some kind of virulent intestinal ailment from the unclean surroundings.†   (source)
  • Even when the humanity isn't very humane, or the heart ailment a disease.†   (source)
  • She is not suffering her particular ailment, is she?†   (source)
  • Those folks with life-draining ailments could no longer be cured.†   (source)
  • A year later Ball would die of a similar ailment on the slopes of Dhaulagiri.†   (source)
  • Amid the stress of his illness, she developed a serious kidney ailment.†   (source)
  • He did a superb job, nursing the horses' ailments while honing their speed.†   (source)
  • Next she offered: What herb cures all ailments?†   (source)
  • The truth, of course, is that the ailment crosses denominational lines.†   (source)
  • Smith patched them together, soothed their ailments, and learned.†   (source)
  • The doctor gave me pills to give at intervals while traveling so that the ailment never came back.†   (source)
  • Mrs. van D. thinks I'm stupid because I don't suffer so much from this ailment as she does, she thinks I'm pushy because she's even pushier, she thinks my dresses are too short because hers are even shorter, and she thinks I'm such a know-it-all because she talks twice as much as I do about topics she knows nothing about.†   (source)
  • Tio Kiko knew a little of the Mexican healing arts, the use of herbs and incantations from old Indian traditions used to treat most ailments.†   (source)
  • The man went on to tell me about his various ailments, only very occasionally turning his eyes away from the sunset in order to give me a nod or a grin.†   (source)
  • As far as he knew, he was the only living person to have survived a curse like Voldemort's; it was highly unlikely, therefore, that he would find his symptoms listed in Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions.†   (source)
  • Because the POW diet was severely deficient in sodium, leaving many men crippled by muscle cramps and other ailments, the men developed a system for stealing and processing salt.†   (source)
  • John's father and his three siblings had all died during the past few years, apparently of various ailments.†   (source)
  • She says, That one is able to sit here by the hour and complain about her ailments but it doesn't stop her from puffing away on the Woodbines.†   (source)
  • It should cause a shiver in the composite breast of the Board of Lady Managers when they consider what may happen if Director-General Davis should lead out some fascinating Fatima at the head of the grand procession and she should be taken with peritonitis in the midst of the dance; or if [Potter] Palmer should escort a votary of the Temple of Luxor only to find her with the same ailment; or if Mayor Harrison, who belongs to all nations, should dance with the whole lot.†   (source)
  • He distracted them with palliatives, giving time enough time to teach them not to feel their ailments, so that they could live with them in the rubbish heap of old age.†   (source)
  • Her worst ailment—the one she frequently complained about to Ruth, in excruciating detail—was constipation.†   (source)
  • Intergenerational tensions, responsibilities, and misdeeds are some of Ibsen's abiding themes, so it's not surprising that such an ailment would resonate with him.†   (source)
  • And when they set up clinics to treat those two diseases, people would come to them with other ailments, with broken legs and machete wounds, with typhoid and bacterial meningitis.†   (source)
  • Over the life of the fair the hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day, for injuries and ailments that suggest that the mundane sufferings of people have not changed very much over the ages.†   (source)
  • He had read about them in textbooks, he had seen them confirmed in real life, in older patients with no history of serious ailments who suddenly began to describe perfect syndromes that seemed to come straight from medical texts and yet turned out to be imaginary.†   (source)
  • "Whatever it was," says Jane Bromet, one of the handful of intimates who knew about the ailment, "it produced malaria-like symptoms, even though it wasn't malaria.†   (source)
  • In addition to reducing the benefits afforded to injured employees, Colorado's new law granted employers the right to choose the physician who'd determine the severity of any work-related ailment.†   (source)
  • Recent studies have found that many foodborne pathogens can precipitate long-term ailments, such as heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease, neurological problems, autoimmune disorders, and kidney damage.†   (source)
  • Leona Cassiani helped him to bathe and to change his pajamas every other day, she gave him his enemas, she held the portable urinal for him, she applied arnica compresses to the bedsores on his back, she gave him the massages recommended by the doctor so that his immobility would not cause other, more severe ailments.†   (source)
  • And in Peking, there are strange ailments we have never even experienced here, maladies that could make the tips of LuLing's nose and fingers fall off.†   (source)
  • The other way around: if we see that characters have difficulties of the heart, we won't be too surprised when emotional trouble becomes the physical ailment and the cardiac episode appears.†   (source)
  • Patients, it seemed, formed not just a calendar of past events but a large mnemonic structure, in which individual faces and small quirks—he'd remember, for instance, that a certain patient had a particular kind of stuffed animal in his hospital room—were like an index to the symptoms, the pathophysiology, the remedies for thousands of ailments.†   (source)
  • A baffling ailment, HACE occurs when fluid leaks from oxygen-starved cerebral blood vessels, causing severe swelling of the brain, and it can strike with little or no warning.†   (source)
  • Andy inqui laid low with various intestinal ailments for most of the expedition r blessed with and was finally getting his strength back.†   (source)
  • These would include vaccination programs, protected water supplies and sanitation, and at the heart of the defenses, a cadre of people from the villages trained to administer medicines and give classes on health, to treat minor ailments and recognize the symptoms of grave ones like tb, malaria, typhoid.†   (source)
  • But with a heart attack, the connection to an overfondness for drink is still there if that's what some readers want to see, but now the ailment points not toward his behavior but toward the pain and suffering, the loneliness and regret, of his sad-sack love life, that may well be causing the behavior.†   (source)
  • As he was about to leave, he made a casual remark about that morning's medical consultation, knowing that nothing pleases patients more than talking about their ailments, and she was so splendid talking about hers that he promised he would return the next day, at four o'clock sharp, to examine her with greater care.†   (source)
  • Given the highly charged nature of the public experience, we would expect to see AIDS show up in places occupied by other ailments in earlier times.†   (source)
  • The writer can use heart ailments as a kind of shorthand for the character, which is probably what happens most often, or he can use it as a social metaphor.†   (source)
  • By the time the ice began to melt and the first barge was seen shuddering through the ice skim on the river, everybody under fifteen had croup, or scarlet fever, and those over had chilblains, rheumatism, pleurisy, earaches and a world of other ailments.†   (source)
  • In New York, my grandfather developed stomach ailments, and from then on all the foods in the world were divided into those that agreed and those that did not agree with Papito.†   (source)
  • He would complain of the ailments of old age, he suffered from the most insignificant economic difficulties, and he had stopped laughing a long time back because scurvy had made his teeth drop out.†   (source)
  • From Ilirea, we went to Du Weldenvarden in the hope that the elven healers might be able to cure Oromis's ailment and restore his ability to use magic.†   (source)
  • At any rate, my memories of growing up with Cora were always colored with her various ailments: ear infections, allergies, tonsillitis, unexplained rashes and fevers.†   (source)
  • The spell Eragon used was long and complex, and even he did not understand all its parts, for he had memorized it from an ancient text that offered little explanation beyond the statement that, given no bones were broken and the internal organs were whole, "this charm will heal any ailment of violent origins, excepting that of grim death."†   (source)
  • The old man had become too afflicted with age and the agonies of his ailments, "too much an object of compassion, to be one of resentment," Adams noted.†   (source)
  • It wasn't that serious yet, she told herself; besides, she had a theory that once she started taking pills for one ailment, more pills would soon follow for everything else that doomed people of her age.†   (source)
  • It wasn't just that his ailments had all cleared up; or that he went to movies now, and baseball games.†   (source)
  • She gave her a vial of castor oil, put compresses on her stomach and ice cubes on her head, and she made her stay in bed for five days and follow the diet ordered by the new and outlandish French doctor, who after examining her for more than two hours reached the foggy conclusion that she had an ailment peculiar to women.†   (source)
  • If frequently exhausted by his labors and distressed over her ailments, he appears to have come to terms with his marginal role in the order of things.†   (source)
  • She resigned herself to waiting until the rain stopped and the mail service was back to normal, and in the meantime she sought relief from her secret ailments with recourse to her imagination, because she would rather have died than put herself in the hands of the only doctor left in Macondo, the extravagant Frenchman who ate grass like a donkey.†   (source)
  • She didn't know how to love anyone — though she did believe he loved her, that he found her a doctor for his many ailments, both those he could name and those he could not.†   (source)
  • The two old correspondents continued to write of their declining health and persistent ailments, of old memories and the death of friends, but the letters grew fewer in number, and there was much about each of their lives that they kept to themselves.†   (source)
  • Subjected to some of the most malicious attacks ever endured by a president, beset by personal disloyalty and political betrayal, suffering the loss of his mother, the near death of his wife, the death of a son, tormented by physical ailments, he had more than weathered the storm.†   (source)
  • Other ailments struck.†   (source)
  • Interviewed at home where he is recuperating from an ailment, Mayor Fairbrothers stated that he had not heard of there being trouble of any description at the Mill.†   (source)
  • He died of a lung ailment October 12 after an illness of two weeks, and his body rests in the Odd Fellows cemetery.†   (source)
  • Most often it was expressed as genial contempt toward business, labor, government, and all the salesmen of miracle cures for the world's ailments.†   (source)
  • Conditions in the women's compound at Birkenau were hideous and a chronic bronchial ailment to which she had always been prone had flared up, bringing to her cheeks a hectic and alarming flush so bright that it almost matched her brick-red hair, or the grotesque frizzles that were left of it.†   (source)
  • But, more important, Charley had been taken with his old ailment again, and this time he was in bad trouble and great pain.†   (source)
  • Then one afternoon she died peacefully of no particular ailment and was buried in her wedding gown.†   (source)
  • Working all day and writing half the night brought me down with a severe chest ailment.†   (source)
  • When the cow had the colic and the horse fell ill with a mysterious ailment which threatened to remove him permanently from them, Will sat up nights with them and saved them.†   (source)
  • You see, my dear Conway, we are not quacks or charlatans; we do not and cannot guarantee success; some of our visitors derive no benefit at all from their stay here; others merely live to what might be called a normally advanced age and then die from some trifling ailment.†   (source)
  • And in addition they had parasites that got between the scales, and they had to be dusted or washed with mercurochrome; some had to be given inhalations of eucalyptus oil for their lung ailments, for snakes get tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • The state of the crops, the price of fat cattle, the mysterious ailments of swine, I relish them all.†   (source)
  • Besides continuing difficulties with her leg, she had endured for some years a pattern of ailments which — as with so many hibakusha — might or might not have been attributable to the bomb: liver dysfunction, night sweats and morning fevers, borderline angina, blood spots on her legs, and signs in blood tests of a rheumatoid factor.†   (source)
  • He has got the idea into his head, apparently-and perhaps it's not so farfetched as it seems-that a man suffering from a dangerous ailment or grave anxiety is allergic to other ailments and anxieties.†   (source)
  • Non— hibakusha employers developed a prejudice against the survivors as word got around that they were prone to all sorts of ailments, and that even those, like Nakamura-san, who were not cruelly maimed and had not developed any serious overt symptoms were unreliable workers, since most of them seemed to suffer, as she did, from the mysterious but real malaise that came to be known as one kind of asting A-bomb sickness: a nagging weakness and weariness, dizziness now and then,…†   (source)
  • He has got the idea into his head, apparently-and perhaps it's not so farfetched as it seems-that a man suffering from a dangerous ailment or grave anxiety is allergic to other ailments and anxieties.†   (source)
  • Even the strictest old ladies felt that a man who could discuss the ailments and problems of childhood as well as he did could not be altogether bad.†   (source)
  • There were several ailments, less life-threatening than the cancers, that were thought by many doctors — and by most of the people who were subject to them — to have resulted from exposure to the bomb: several sorts of anemia, liver dysfunction, sexual problems, endocrine disorders, accelerated aging, and the not-quite-really-sick yet undeniable debilitation of which so many complained.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, various ailments had begun to cry out.†   (source)
  • His chief interest came to be people's ailments and people's health.†   (source)
  • His wife had died, and he, who had loved her, had specialised on women's ailments.†   (source)
  • He could nurse his ailments comfortably on such an income.†   (source)
  • While he had been tossed by many emotions, he had not been aware of ailments.†   (source)
  • His ailments, clamoring, forced him to seek the place of food and rest, at whatever cost.†   (source)
  • We spend more on almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment than on our mental aliment.†   (source)
  • This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.†   (source)
  • The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave back life and elasticity to Mattie, and Zeena, with more leisure to devote to her complex ailments, grew less watchful of the girl's omissions; so that Ethan, struggling on under the burden of his barren farm and failing saw-mill, could at least imagine that peace reigned in his house.†   (source)
  • Time might never have moved, rain never have fallen, and man alone, with his schemes and ailments, was troubling Nature until he saw her through a veil of tears.†   (source)
  • He had not known how many days would have to pass, but one morning at early breakfast he received his orders from the head nurse, who had another sty now—it could not be the same one; apparently she was naturally susceptible to this harmless but disfiguring ailment.†   (source)
  • I am always telling that to your poor uncle, but he never seems to take much notice …. as far as any improvement in his ailment goes.†   (source)
  • Then he noticed that his eyes were beginning to hurt him, and this ailment rapidly increased until, in the dark chambers of the lodgings he frequented, he did not attempt to read.†   (source)
  • I don't care whether he has all science at his fingertips, whether he can instantly diagnose with a considerable degree of accuracy the most obscure ailment, whether he has the surgical technique of a Mayo, a Crile, a Blake, an Ochsner, a Cushing.†   (source)
  • Nothing that would serve to amuse her and make that indescribably dried-up little woman look, as Clarissa came in, just for a moment cordial; before they settled down for the usual interminable talk of women's ailments.†   (source)
  • I've been reading an article about these new nerve-specialists, and they claim that lots of 'imaginary' ailments, yes, and lots of real pain, too, are what they call psychoses, and they order a change in a woman's way of living so she can get on a higher plane——"†   (source)
  • But at the same time, early in May, when Roberta, because of various gestative signs and ailments, was beginning to explain, as well as insist, to Clyde that by no stretch of the imagination or courage could she be expected to retain her position at the factory or work later than June first, because by then the likelihood of the girls there beginning to notice something, would be too great for her to endure, Sondra was beginning to explain that not so much later than the fourth or…†   (source)
  • And so Ona went back to Brown's and saved her place and a week's wages; and so she gave herself some one of the thousand ailments that women group under the title of "womb trouble," and was never again a well person as long as she lived.†   (source)
  • But the state of excitement into which Odette's presence never failed to throw him, added to a feverish ailment which, for some time now, had scarcely left him, robbed him of that sense of quiet and comfort which is an indispensable background to the impressions that we derive from nature.†   (source)
  • Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body (he was almost too well dressed always, but presumably had to be, with his little job at Court) that his wife had some internal ailment, nothing serious, which, as an old friend, Clarissa Dalloway would quite understand without requiring him to specify.†   (source)
  • They asked him why he had not come on the previous Sunday, and he told them he had been ill; they wanted to know what was the matter with him; and Philip, to amuse them, suggested a mysterious ailment, the name of which, double-barrelled and barbarous with its mixture of Greek and Latin (medical nomenclature bristled with such), made them shriek with delight.†   (source)
  • Two hours after this was published, Miss Agnes Ingleblad came in for another discussion of her non-existent ailments, and two days later Henry Novak appeared, saying proudly: "Well, Doc, we all done what we could for the poor little girl, but I guess I waited too long calling you.†   (source)
  • With the men the most common ailments were due to the excessive use of alcohol, but with the women they were due to defective nourishment.†   (source)
  • The first examination he could take was in midwifery and the diseases of women, and he put his name down to be a clerk in the ward devoted to feminine ailments; since it was holiday time there happened to be no difficulty in getting a post as obstetric clerk; he arranged to undertake that duty during the last week of August and the first two of September.†   (source)
  • From those visits to unsanitary Houndsley streets in search of Diamond, he had brought back not only a bad bargain in horse-flesh, but the further misfortune of some ailment which for a day or two had deemed mere depression and headache, but which got so much worse when he returned from his visit to Stone Court that, going into the dining-room, he threw himself on the sofa, and in answer to his mother's anxious question, said, "I feel very ill: I think you must send for Wrench."†   (source)
  • The slight spurt of peevish susceptibility which had escaped him in their first interview was a symptom of a perpetually recurring mental ailment, half of it nervous irritability, half of it the heart-bitterness produced by the sense of his deformity.†   (source)
  • He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a slight ailment.†   (source)
  • If I was one of the complaining sort, or ever made any fuss about my ailments, there would be some reason for it.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he enjoyed excellent health that defied all ailments, owned solid muscles, but hadn't a nerve in him, not a sign of nerves—the mental type, I mean.†   (source)
  • Her own spirits improved by change of place and subject, by being removed three miles from Kellynch; Mary's ailments lessened by having a constant companion, and their daily intercourse with the other family, since there was neither superior affection, confidence, nor employment in the cottage, to be interrupted by it, was rather an advantage.†   (source)
  • A new ailment, O my Amrah; and you who know me so well, who never failed me, may think of the things now that answer for food and medicine.†   (source)
  • Fifty years ago, and when the present writer, being an interesting little boy, was ordered out of the room with the ladies after dinner, I remember quite well that their talk was chiefly about their ailments; and putting this question directly to two or three since, I have always got from them the acknowledgement that times are not changed.†   (source)
  • If you encourage servants in giving way to every little disagreeable feeling, and complaining of every little ailment, you'll have your hands full.†   (source)
  • If thy memory have a limp or ailment of any kind, there is, if I mistake not, a wound on thy head which may help thee to a revival of the circumstance.†   (source)
  • Another day of dread at length came—the day the mother, under impulsion of duty, at last told Tirzah the name of their ailment; and the two, in agony of despair, prayed that the end might come quickly.†   (source)
  • 'O thou beautiful as Athor herself, my queen!' said the king, whose hundred and thirteen years did not lessen his ardor as a lover, 'Tell me, I pray, the ailment of which, alas! thou art so certainly perishing before my eyes.†   (source)
  • "But he talked of flannel waistcoats," said Marianne; "and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble."†   (source)
  • Poor Marianne, languid and low from the nature of her malady, and feeling herself universally ill, could no longer hope that tomorrow would find her recovered; and the idea of what tomorrow would have produced, but for this unlucky illness, made every ailment severe; for on that day they were to have begun their journey home; and, attended the whole way by a servant of Mrs. Jennings, were to have taken their mother by surprise on the following forenoon.†   (source)
  • …but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had—assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings—given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.†   (source)
  • This second book proved to be Beaton's daily log book, in which he had tidily recorded the names of his patients, details of their ailments, and the course of treatment prescribed.†   (source)
  • Having found out that I knew something of medicine and healing, though, they grew still more interested in me, and began to ask questions about the ailments of their children, husbands, and beasts, in most cases making little distinction between the latter two in level of importance.†   (source)
  • I closed the book, marveling at the large number of the late doctor's patients who, according to his meticulous log, had not only survived the treatment meted out to them but actually recovered from their original ailments.†   (source)
  • He wore his good sword, which hung in a baldric of sea-wolf's skin, for he had suffered for many years, they say, from an ailment of the kidneys; and over all he threw a long cloak of good grey cloth.†   (source)
  • He replied, "Senora, let me tell your ladyship that this damsel's ailment comes entirely of idleness, and the cure for it is honest and constant employment.†   (source)
  • …of the bad nights and worse days that she passed in that enchantment, as I could see by the great dark circles round her eyes, and her sickly complexion; 'her sallowness, and the rings round her eyes,' said he, 'are not caused by the periodical ailment usual with women, for it is many months and even years since she has had any, but by the grief her own heart suffers because of that which she holds in her hand perpetually, and which recalls and brings back to her memory the sad fate of…†   (source)
  • Sancho strove to comfort him, and among other things he said to him, "Hold up your head, senor, and be of good cheer if you can, and give thanks to heaven that if you have had a tumble to the ground you have not come off with a broken rib; and, as you know that 'where they give they take,' and that 'there are not always fletches where there are pegs,' a fig for the doctor, for there's no need of him to cure this ailment.†   (source)
  • …any harm by it, for my only object was that all the world should enjoy itself and live in peace and quiet, without quarrels or troubles; but my good intentions were unavailing to save me from going where I never expect to come back from, with this weight of years upon me and a urinary ailment that never gives me a moment's ease;" and again he fell to weeping as before, and such compassion did Sancho feel for him that he took out a real of four from his bosom and gave it to him in alms.†   (source)
  • You had better take a big stone and tie it round my neck, and pitch me into a well; I should not mind it much, if I'm to be always made the cow of the wedding for the cure of other people's ailments.†   (source)
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