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Sentences starting with illness

Illness came; then you, who have nursed me back to life. [11]
Illness had set a yellow seal on the face, but the younger man remarked it not. [9]

Sentences ending with illness

Reproof and warnings were useless here; the only thing he could do was to act, and renew the conflict with the scarcely subdued illness. [10]
I thought I was well, about ten days ago, so I sent for a short-hand writer and dictated answers to a bushel or so of letters that had been accumulating during my illness. [5]
Scarcely any impression was left on Pierre's mind by all that happened to him from the time of his rescue till his illness. [2]
It is perhaps useless for me to add that in my opinion you understand as well as I do the real reason for Mr. Vane's resignation and illness. [9]
It pained me to see him looking more worn, but he was still as cheerful, as mentally vigorous as ever, and I perceived that he did not wish to dwell upon his illness. [9]
In her note to me she had confessed her illness. [9]
All Rosalie had to live on was her salary as postmistress, for it was in every one's knowledge that the little else she had was being sacrificed to her father's illness. [11]
Their duties carry them into the midst of families, and particularly at times when the members of them are suffering from bodily illness. [6]
The day after the wedding the Angare reached Babylon with the news of your illness. [10]
He was found the next morning still and cold, and there was clasped in his hands a little doll which Nancy had given him on one of her many visits to the prison during her father's long illness. [11]

Short sentences using illness

Oh, that's a terrible illness! [2]
Was the illness dangerous? [6]
Some illness was coming on. [10]
Illness, probably! [2]

Sentences containing illness two or more times

Natasha's illness was so serious that, fortunately for her and for her parents, the consideration of all that had caused the illness, her conduct and the breaking off of her engagement, receded into the background. [2]

More example sentences with the word illness in them

He has taken your illness very much to heart, I know, and he left some fruit and flowers for you. [9]
She was miserably worn and tired, by the long day's struggle and by illness, or she must have noticed the effect of that speech and divined the reason of it. [5]
At the opera, with Lord Ossory and Mr. Fitzpatrick, I talked through the round of the boxes, from Lady Pembroke's on the right to Lady Hervey's on the left, where Dolly's illness and Lady Harrington's snuffing gabble were the topics rather than Giardini's fiddling. [9]
I recalled now, with a shudder, that never since the spring of my grandfather's illness had my uncle questioned me upon my politics. [9]
It was Mathilde who saved him from a violent illness, closing the box and leading him downstairs, and whispered something incomprehensible in his ear as she pointed him homeward. [9]
The illness from which Maurice had suffered left him in a state of profound prostration. [6]
Partings all round were made, and, after some injunctions to Mrs. Falchion and Justine Caron from myself as to preventives against illness, the rest of us started for Sunburst. [11]
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]
And then she was never more winning; perhaps her beauty had taken on a more refined quality from her illness abroad; perhaps it was that indefinable knowledge of the world, which is recognized as well in dress as in manner, which increased her attractiveness. [4]
Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow he had made upon his fevered bed. [12]
They were all very grave, and they began to talk about the suddenness of Mr. Watling's illness and to speculate upon its nature. [9]
His nerves were uncertain, but, strange to say, when (it was not often) any serious case of illness came under his hands, he was somehow able to pull himself together and do his task gallantly enough. [11]
The soldier's hands trembled, but it was from imminent illness, not from fear or excitement. [11]
I am subject to illness, he is never ill. [5]
Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this illness the old prince not only excluded her from his room, but did not admit Mademoiselle Bourienne either. [2]
He was sick to death--not with illness alone, but with disappointment and broken hopes and a burden beyond the powers of any one man. [11]
For the first time since his illness he felt that he was doomed. [11]
Suppose, then, that through illness or accident she lost her position, what could she do? [11]
I was some three weeks with my new tutor, the rector, before my grandfather's illness, and went back again as soon as he began to mend. [9]
At first both thought that they felt a beneficial result; but soon their condition changed for the worse, and their illness constantly increased. [10]
As he spoke these last words he noticed that the pulse fluttered a little,--beat irregularly a few times; intermitted; became feeble and thready; while his cheek grew whiter than the pallid bloodlessness of his long illness had left it. [6]
In his illness there was nothing more to be regretted than in all his blameless life. [4]
But at last the tide of fortune turned; young Caruthers became infect with smallpox of the most virulent type, and when he recovered from his illness his face was pitted like a waffle-mold, and his comeliness gone forever. [5]
I, too, scanned the period immediately preceding my illness, but reached the conclusion that it was due to acute colds, the first of which ran into a very violent fever. [10]
The character of the illness, and the natural exhaustion of her strength by suffering, lessened the shock of her death, though not the loss, to those who survived her. [6]
When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart. [2]
The news of the day in Petersburg was the illness of Countess Bezukhova. [2]
She then narrated the circumstances of Laura's supposed marriage, her abandonment and long illness, in a manner that touched all hearts. [5]
Charles angrily exclaimed that he knew what such illness meant, and his under lip protruded so far that it was easy to perceive how deeply this fresh proof of Barbara's defiance and vanity incensed him. [10]
How great a sympathy the whole city had shown during her illness, and how many of all classes had attended the mass for her soul! [10]
He had a sudden attack of illness, which was thought to look very much like the effect of poison. [6]
His face was still sunken from his recent illness. [9]
And what seemed still more terrible to her was that since her father's illness began (perhaps even sooner, when she stayed with him expecting something to happen), all the personal desires and hopes that had been forgotten or sleeping within her had awakened. [2]
We felt that something terrible was impending, and people called it grandfather's illness. [10]
Lady Dargan came softly to him, smiled more with her eyes than her lips, and told him how sorry she had been to hear of his illness. [11]
He told himself so, and his weary brain stirred more actively, suggesting to him to feign illness and bring the Emperor to his bedside. [10]
Her head seemed smaller, her features had become more delicate and, in spite of the straw hat which protected her from the dazzling sunshine, he perceived that her severe illness had cost her her magnificent golden hair. [10]
She has a slight illness, and is not fit to take part in these proceedings. [11]
Even in this short illness, Kilquhanity's flesh had dropped away from him, leaving him but a bundle of bones, on which the skin quivered with fever. [11]
He knew that she had not sung since her illness, and so the sound of her voice surprised and delighted him. [2]
Paolo, his faithful servant, would fain have taken the sole charge of his master during his illness. [6]
Ever since his serious attacks of illness, he had dined alone; a portion of her dinner, regulated by strict attention to the diet most suitable for him, being taken into his room by herself. [14]
But he was seized with illness, became blind, and was ordered to a warm climate for a year. [11]
Ward wrote a second letter, after a siege of illness at Salt Lake City. [5]
Mrs. Falchion, she said, was not going away until she knew how Mr. Roscoe's illness would turn. [11]
She had been roused at last to the serious nature of Kilquhanity's illness. [11]
There was no reproach in the strong, clear eyes of blue which even wounds and illness had not faced--only humour, only a hovering joy, only a good-fellowship, and the look of home. [11]
His illness had refined his features and form, and touched off his cheerfulness with a fine melancholy. [11]
The body, though reduced by a sudden illness, had an appearance of late youth, a firmness of mature manhood; but the hair was grey, the beard was grizzled, and the face was furrowed and seamed as though the man had lived a long, hard life. [11]
The man who recovers, after a serious illness, values health a hundred-fold more than before; and he who regains sight after blindness, must be an especial favorite of the gods. [10]
Hylda had not recovered wholly from the illness which had stricken her down on that day in London when she had sought news of David from Eglington, at such cost to her peace and health and happiness. [11]
He looked at Prince Vasili in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of illness. [2]
But she found plenty of words to show Wolf how happy it made her to see him again, and to tell him about his foster parents' last illness and death. [10]
It was well, perhaps, that this change took place while he was enfeebled by the wasting effects of long illness. [6]
Pain and illness paralysed his keen intellect, and difficulty of breathing often checked the eloquent tongue, both of which had served him so readily in his intercourse with Heinz Schorlin. [10]
You haven't got over your illness yet. [11]
I took the opportunity to ask about his family, thinking about what Dolly had said of Patty's illness. [9]
The conversation was on the chief topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of Catherine's day, Count Bezukhov, and about his illegitimate son Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pavlovna's reception. [2]
That sincerity which often comes with waking showed her clearly what chiefly concerned her about her father's illness. [2]
This was one of those families where illness was hardly looked for among the possibilities of life. [6]
A certain feeling of shame had restrained her from leaving Barbara directly after the beginning of her illness. [10]
After the recovery of Laura from her long illness, did Mrs. Hawkins think there, were any signs of insanity about her? [5]
This last illness of her father's had been the salvation of her mind, the saving of her health. [11]
They naturally spoke of Elsie, her illness, and the aspect it had taken. [6]
With two such nurses as Ruth and Alice, illness seemed to him rather a nice holiday, and every moment of his convalescence had been precious and all too fleeting. [5]
Yet he had not recovered from his illness. [10]
They were from Nitetis in Persia to her supposed sister, and were written in ignorance of the latter's illness. [10]
But when, the next morning, the cobbler's one-eyed daughter, who, since old Ursel's illness, had done the rough work in the chambers and kitchen, waked her, she speedily changed her mind. [10]
It was a new grave--the resting-place, perhaps, of some little creature, who, meek and patient in its illness, had often sat and watched them, and now seemed, to their minds, scarcely changed. [12]
I suppose there never was an illness that had more of dignity, and sweetness and resignation in it. [4]
They judged it necessary to prepare Caesar in some sort, to prevent a fresh attack of illness. [10]
Pictures of the near past--her father's illness and last moments--rose one after another to her memory. [2]
The symptoms of Natasha's illness were that she ate little, slept little, coughed, and was always low-spirited. [2]
Such a document must be in existence, for up to the day after Henrica's illness it had been in the lawyer's possession, but was then sent for by the old lady, who desired to make some changes in it. [10]
Age, illness, too much wear and tear, a half-formed paralysis, may bring any of us to this pass. [6]
They were too much interested in enquiring particulars of Bartja's illness and recovery. [10]
Then, I nursed Mr. Roscoe in his illness. [11]
That very night, Mr Richard was seized with an alarming illness, and in twenty-four hours was stricken with a raging fever. [12]
She has disobeyed me, flaunted me, nursed me in illness, championed me behind my back. [9]
No, don't interrupt me yet, Mistress Eva, for you must know that Sir Heinz's lady mother committed her dear son to my Biberli's care, that he might guard him from injury and illness. [10]
The jar was marked with the name of a mineral salt, of a nature to have been serviceable in case of sudden illness in the time of the Borgias. [6]
The former was long in shaking off the effects of this illness. [14]
He had several letters from England of a later date, and these said nothing of her illness. [11]
Mrs. Temple, poor lady, had died on that first night of my illness, and it was her punishment that she had not known her son or her son's happiness. [9]
Potions of all kinds were given her to drink, her illness was discussed and exorcised, the stars and oracles consulted, rich presents and sacrifices made to the gods. [10]
His illness pursued its normal physical course, but what Natasha referred to when she said: "This suddenly happened," had occurred two days before Princess Mary arrived. [2]
The most interesting item is his bill against the estate of Samuel Pason of Roxbury, for services during his last illness. [3]
Whether I owe it to illness or to the atmosphere that pervades this house, I can't tell, but how long will it last? [10]
What pleasure could it have been all through his illness to look upon this silent and cruel reminder of days gone by forever? [9]
Many will find it hardly compatible with the reserved, quiet manner of the astute, cool politician, that during a slight illness of my mother he read Fritz Reuter's novels aloud to her--he spoke Plattdeutsch admirably--as dutifully as a son. [10]
I suppose it is as true that a woodsman would like to "pass in his chips,"--the figure seems to be inevitable, struck down by illness and exposure, in the forest solitude, with heaven in sight and a tree-root for his pillow. [4]
He had been invited to their home, intimacy had grown, and afterwards, stricken with a severe illness, he had been taken into the household and kept there till he was well again. [11]
He was an invalid, and looked it, as far as his body was concerned, but illness could not subdue his spirit. [5]
The illness developed into a fever, and then a delirium set in, not an intellectual blank, but a misty and most delicious wandering in places of incomparable beauty. [4]
After some affectionate interchanges, and some account of my late illness, I said: "What is new? [5]
I had not informed Maude of my illness, and I had managed to warn Tom Peters not to do so. [9]
The latter appeared in the theatre for the first time since a severe illness, the enthusiasm was great, and there was no end to the cries of "Long live the king and queen! [10]
His young companion in illness had also escaped lasting injury. [10]
She sat there in her royal purple, weeping, forgetful of everything but her mother's grief, her father's misfortunes and her sister's illness. [10]
Was the lad's illness serious, or what other cause detained Hosea in Tanis? [10]

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