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Sentences starting with ill

Ill as she was, I could have laughed, for, as we went in the Earl's carriage to the hospital-thirty miles it was--she said she felt at home with me, my dress being so like a nun's. [11]
Ill luck for Viking in the hour of her success. [11]
Ill clad, exposed to the merciless climate, and the end death. [11]
Ill never leave these purple slopes I love so well. [13]
Ill with fever he went to Smolensk with twenty thousand men to defend the town against Napoleon's whole army. [2]

Sentences ending with ill

Even the most worldly-minded of her friends would have taken such an impeachment ill. [10]
That day she was taken suddenly and acutely ill. [11]
Albeit I was truly minded at all times to rejoice with those who were rejoicing, all this bravery, at this time, was sorely against the grain of my troubled heart and its forebodings of ill. [10]
On her return to town she had been obliged to go away at once to see her sister taken suddenly ill. [11]
I introduced him to Mrs. Falchion last night, but he did not stay long on deck, because he felt ill. [11]
I am subject to illness, he is never ill. [5]
I was mad to go upon such an adventure, but I meant no ill. [11]
The marriage was to be a very quiet one--the bridegroom's father lay seriously ill. [10]
Thus she lived till she attained womanhood, when one day her brother, whose name was Iamo, said to her: 'Sister, the time is at hand when you will be ill. [5]
Since then M'sieu' the tailor has been ill. [11]

Short sentences using ill

Yes, ill, I say. [9]
Was she ill, perhaps? [4]
How ill he is! [2]
Do you feel ill? [10]
He meant no ill. [11]
He had fared ill. [10]
The Judge is ill, Stephen. [9]
Anne was very ill yesterday. [14]
Rostov felt ill at ease. [2]
Such ill luck. [2]

Sentences containing ill two or more times

Charles Augustus Murray, writing some forty-five or fifty years ago, said--'The streets are narrow, ill paved and ill lighted. [5]
These hermits are dead men, in several respects, but not in all; and it is not proper, that, thinking ill of them at first, I should go on doing so, or, speaking ill of them I should reiterate the words and stick to them. [5]

More example sentences with the word ill in them

Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
And you, sir--don't you know there has been somebody ill here, that you knock as if you'd beat the door down? [12]
She had been, years before, very ill in Paris, and the apprehensions for her safety now were based upon the recollection of her peril then. [4]
When, a few years ago, my mother was ill in Holland, a reply to a telegram marked "urgent" was received in Leipsic in eighteen minutes. [10]
I determined to write to my dear Alixe the true history of my life, even to the point--and after--of this thing which now was bringing me to so ill a pass. [11]
He used to worry himself ill over that. [9]
Tom said the words which Hertford put into his mouth from time to time, and tried hard to acquit himself satisfactorily, but he was too new to such things, and too ill at ease to accomplish more than a tolerable success. [5]
There is no woman who can say I used her ill or took from her what I did not--" "Atone for, Lord Mallow? [11]
It ill accords with our desires, as tranquil travelers, to be plunged into such a vortex of slow dissipation. [4]
A 'poudre' day, with its steely air and fatal frost, was an ill thing in the world; but these entangling blasts, these wild curtains of snow, were desolating even unto death. [11]
He was obsessed with anxiety, for he had a dark fear that some ill had happened to the two. [11]
And yet--believe me--I wish him no ill, and I will be quite content, if only I need never go back to him. [10]
Envy and ill will would also have a share in this affair, and the usually benevolent King knew no mercy where crime against his own person was concerned. [10]
I hope you will have no unwelcome occasion for his services,--you are never ill, you know,--but, anyhow, he is going to be here, and no matter what happens he will be on hand. [6]
If wounded, I will be your nurse; will never stir from your side if you are ill, and when I see you happy will retire, and feast my eyes from afar on your glory and happiness. [10]
But his future wife had been ill too. [10]
Like every knight whose own home was not pleasant, he sometimes gambled; and when, yesterday, ill luck pursued him and he lost the estate of Tannenreuth, he sincerely regretted the disaster, but it could not be helped. [10]
There were many who swallowed this oath and never felt any ill effects. [9]
He was ill while I was in Manchester and B----. [14]
And my dream, while I lay ill with fever far away from my mistress! [10]
Her feeble health, which was very evident, became her particularly ill when, as at this moment, the harsh acrimony of her embittered soul came to light with hideous plainness. [10]
The pliant intellect which the gods bestowed on me would ill sustain the test in this hour of anguish. [10]
This it was which had led the high-born dame to cast aside all the vanities and foolishness in which she had grown up, to the end that she might protect a young and oppressed creature whom she truly cared for from an ill fate. [10]
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. [7]
At the time when we were hoping to see him it was thought that he was too ill to receive visitors, but he has since written me that he regretted we did not carry out our intention. [6]
Three nights ago when she fainted and went ill to bed, I stayed with her, slept in the same room, in the bed beside hers. [11]
You were ill when it left the harbour, garlanded with flowers and adorned with purple sails. [10]
He reflected that when ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers. [5]
His clothes are wet, he is unshaven, he is gaunt and ill, and his eyed gleans. [9]
If only Dolly were not ill again from the shock, I should be happy indeed. [9]
You know you were never easy without some medicine to take when you felt ill in body. [6]
I heard you were ill and I tried to get up and go to you; but it was not possible. [11]
Some of them were actually ill, or had at home a sick husband or a sick daughter. [4]
Whether it is well or ill done, I don't know; D. V., I will now try and wait the issue quietly. [14]
If I said well it would not be true; if I said ill, I should be surrounded with pitiful faces, which are not pleasant to look at. [10]
This is the way it happens: Every grown-up person has either been ill himself or had a friend suffer from illness, from which he has recovered. [3]
You see, it wasn't what Faddo said about himself that made Laney wild, but that about his brother Tom; and a man doesn't like his brother spoken ill of by dirt like Faddo, be it true or false. [11]
The next question was, what to be ill with. [6]
As for me--I was with the squadron myself, I call you a brave soldier; but--no offence--you have behaved ill in this country. [10]
Before Shiel Crozier was taken ill their romance began; but it grew in volume and intensity after the trial and the shooting, when they met by the bedside of the wounded man. [11]
Even while she was so ill these past weeks, she never asked for me; and when I came . [11]
This faithful man was so ill and weak that it was thought he could not recover, yet notwithstanding the stormy weather, the factions on board, and although his home was almost in sight, only twelve miles across the Downs, he refused to quit the ship. [4]
Once, when she was ill, he had suffered as he had never done before in his life. [11]
The fair-haired artist was ill, and it would be no difficult matter to take him alive, even if he should put himself on the defensive. [10]
The district attorney was ill, and assigned the prosecution to a mild assistant; while a sceptical jury--composed largely of gentlemen who had the business interests of the community, and of themselves, at heart returned a verdict of "not guilty. [9]
M'sieu', the tailor was ill for three days here, and he would let no one except the Cure and Jo Portugais near him. [11]
At first she was ill disposed to answer any questions, but she soon felt that attitude would only do harm. [11]
But, nevertheless, he was ill at ease with himself. [11]
That in itself was courageous, because it was impossible to tell what view the master of Tralee would take of her action, ill though she was. [11]
The Athenian was warmly welcomed by many of the group, a fact which seems strange when we remember that courtiers are of all men the most prone to envy, and a royal favorite always the most likely object to excite their ill will. [10]
Shure, I don't want to be sp'akin' ill of the dead, but look at it now. [11]
Of his own want of health, however, he never complains; he maintains a patient spirit in the ill turns of fortune, and his impatience in the business complications is that of a man hindered from his proper career. [4]
The count is very, very ill, and you must not see him at all. [2]
Her greyhound was very ill, and it seemed that in the ill-treatment it had experienced, not only its leg had been broken, but that it had suffered some internal injury. [10]
He was still very ill, and he talked to me in that tongue; but I did not understand it, of course. [5]
Mrs. Thatcher was very ill, and a great part of the time delirious. [5]
She had been very ill with a severe fever, but was much better during the past few days. [10]
Captain Nye was very ill indeed, with spasmodic rheumatism. [5]
The words had vanished from her memory when she awoke, but she knew that their purport had been sorrowful and of ill omen. [10]
He appears to us always self-conscious and ill at ease with gentlemen born. [4]
The commendation bestowed upon Motley's historical essays in "The North American Review" must have gone far towards compensating him for the ill success of his earlier venture. [6]
Life--here was life unpoisoned by one drop of ill thought or light experience. [11]
The file-leaders of Unitarianism drew back in dismay, and the ill names which had often been applied to them were now heard from their own lips as befitting this new heresy; if so mild a reproach as that of heresy belonged to this alarming manifesto. [6]
And now you understand my reason for wishing you ill, and for hating you to the end. [11]
She was so unconstrained and sincerely cordial, that it made that hero of the west feel somehow young, and very ill at ease. [5]
One evening, when Uncle Tom had gone to play piquet with Mr. Isham, who was ill, Honora further surprised her aunt by exclaiming: "How can you talk of things other people have and not want them, Aunt Mary? [9]
The groans of two young singers who were seriously ill were drowned by the din and heeded by no one except the old drummer's pitying wife, who sometimes wiped the perspiration from the sufferers' brows or supported their heads. [10]
Because you must turn your ill luck in love to advantage: and those from whom it comes are the two beautiful Ortlieb Es, as Nuremberg folk call the ladies Els and Eva. [10]
Now when matters took so ill a turn, he pledged himself to get her safe away from the dungeon cell. [10]
And when we told him how ill she was he would have come to her then. [9]
And I have told her how singularly young Pamela is looking, and what a fine large fellow Sam is, and how ill the lingering syllable "my" to his name fits his port and figure. [5]
It is dreadful to think of you in ill health--I can't realize it; you are always to me the same that you were in those days when matchless health. [5]
The padrona refused to see him and pretended to be ill, but she was as well as only she could be during these last few years. [10]
Her mind, sensitive to new ideas, had been keenly stimulated as she listened to Siddons, who began patiently to dwell once more on the ill effect of the conditions he had discovered on the welfare of the entire community. [9]
She could say to herself that, of all sins, the one farthest from her nature was envy; but what she felt toward this stealer of love fatally resembled sharp, gnawing ill will. [10]
She began talking to her mother of the prelate's absence; Susannah, too, was uneasy about it, particularly since she had heard that the old man had come home ill and that his servant had been out and about in search of a physician. [10]
I went on to explain how Mr. Carvel had fallen ill, and was like to die; and how Mr. Allen, taking advantage of his weakness when he rose from his bed, had gone to him with the lie of having converted me. [9]
So he concluded to be ill and consult the younger Dr. Hurlbut, and incidentally find out how the land lay. [6]
What you intend to accomplish for Barine and me gives you a right to do and say to me whatever ill you choose all the rest of my life. [10]
He had never, till it was taken ill, even touched it, nor spoken to it. [11]
The joys that thrill, the ill that thralls, Pressed down on heart and brain- These are the only horologues, The Age's loss or gain. [11]
Leave it to those who are no longer fit for anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our ill luck takes us. [2]
At any rate, this governess had been taken suddenly ill, and the Doctor had been sent for at midnight. [6]
For Daphne's sake this decision had undoubtedly been welcome to the matron, and it pleased him also; for he still felt so ill physically, and so agitated mentally, that he shrank from meeting his numerous acquaintances in the capital. [10]
One night, the third after Nelly's interview with Mrs Quilp, the old man, who had been weak and ill all day, said he should not leave home. [12]
Do you then think so ill of my intelligence? [11]
In putting forward these tributes of admiration and affection, as well as in his constant allusion to the ill requital of his services, we see a man fighting for his reputation, and conscious of the necessity of doing so. [4]
Instead of sparing them, he continued to work as usual from sunrise until mid-day, and while your sister was so ill he never left her bed, notwithstanding all our entreaties. [10]
In this case their conduct is not much worse than that of the North American Indians, who leave their feeble comrades to perish on the plains; or the Fijians, who, when their parents get old, or fall ill, bury them alive. [1]
Her aunt in the West was taken ill, and she's been with her ever since. [11]
For a moment the thought possessed him that evil and ill had come to her. [11]
Nicolas sprang up the stairs in two or three bounds, called his cousin, and hastily told her that her father had had a severe fall from his horse while hunting, and was lying dangerously ill. [10]
He had approached the shed full of animation, but on seeing Prince Andrew's face he felt constrained and ill at ease. [2]
This was all the more trying to bear, as she was obliged to take an active share in the household work,--one servant being ill in bed, and the other, Tabby, aged upwards of eighty. [14]
But she was the last person to think ill of the young, whose life still lay before them, if they longed to look into futurity. [10]
He spurred to the King's side, bent low in his saddle, uncovered, and said-- "My liege, it is an ill time for dreaming. [5]
I escaped from the house and went to the house of a neighbor where a playmate of mine was very ill with the malady. [5]
Now the wish, the hope, and every new resolve for good or ill were alike over. [10]
And now, from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into a feeling of contemptuous ill will. [2]
Nobody denies to the hen maternal instincts or domestic proclivities, but what an ill example is a hen community! [4]

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