Use invalid in a sentence
Sentences ending with invalid
- During the first week Dion's wound and fever still harassed him, but the prediction of Pyrrhus that the pure, fresh sea-air would benefit the sufferer had been fulfilled, and the monotonous days had passed swiftly enough to the young bride in caring for the invalid. [10]
- I know it was then he wrote this vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid. [2]
- Then bid farewell to the world and shut yourself up for an invalid. [6]
- But not so the invalid. [5]
- He was, indeed, something of an invalid. [4]
- Pierre, whose rude skill in medicine was got of hard experiences here and there, had helped him back into the world again, and was himself now a little astonished at acting as Scripture reader to a Protestant invalid. [11]
- It was no secret that even her uncle's wife, worthy Neforis, did not care for her haughty niece and only suffered her to please the invalid. [10]
- It was the room of the house which, catching the morning sun, was best suited for an invalid. [11]
- And how is our dear invalid? [2]
- Then, all at once, I spoke to him with an air of apparent frankness, and said that if I must die, I cared to do so like a gentleman, with some sort of health, and not like an invalid. [11]
Short sentences using invalid
- How is your invalid? [10]
Sentences containing invalid two or more times
- There have been added to the pension rolls during the year ending the 30th day of June last the names of 16,770 invalid soldiers and of 271 disabled seamen, making the present number of army invalid pensioners 22,767 and of navy invalid pensioners 712. [7]
More example sentences with the word invalid in them
- Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
- How beautiful the world is to an invalid, whose senses are all clarified, who has been so near the world of spirits that she is sensitive to the finest influences, and whose frame responds with a thrill to the subtlest ministrations of soothing nature. [5]
- If the woman with a twisted pelvis is to be considered an exempt, the woman with a defective organization should be recognized as belonging to the invalid corps. [3]
- She immediately disappeared with a delicacy rare in an invalid, and was not seen for two weeks. [4]
- Herr Ortlieb's invalid wife could not spare Els, her older daughter and faithful nurse, so he required Eva's obedience, and compelled her to give up her opposition to attending the festival; but she dreaded the vain, worldly gaiety--nay, actually felt a horror of it. [10]
- Yes, something of which she was still ignorant must be oppressing Wolff, and, with the firm resolve to give him no peace until he confessed everything to her, she returned to the couch of her invalid mother. [10]
- The invalid guessed what was passing in his little daughter's mind, and said, encouragingly: "Ask the hen. [10]
- The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
- The poor invalid was carried up the stairs in a faint by Banks and Romney. [9]
- Her father was very considerate, and even kept back many incidents, but the invalid was too weak for so unexpected and startling a communication. [10]
- The leech desired to remove the invalid lady in waiting from the city air, and she had chosen Barbara for a companion. [10]
- Before he went to Prebrunn, Dr. Mathys had counselled him not to forget during the disagreeable reception awaiting him that he was dealing with an irritable invalid, and the thoroughly noble man resolved to remember it as an excuse. [10]
- But yet at times he was moved by a strange pity, for Olivier Delagarde was, in truth, far older than his years: a thin, shuffling, pallid invalid, with a face of mingled sanctity and viciousness. [11]
- The more distance there is between his healthy highness and the miserable invalid, the better. [10]
- A flush tinged the livid features of the invalid, prematurely aged monarch, and at a wave of his hand the foster-mother left him and his companion alone with the little one. [10]
- Fran Maria Ortlieb, the invalid mistress of the house, rarely needed her services. [10]
- It will do the invalid good, and the exercise can't hurt me. [10]
- The organization of the invalid corps, and 6. [7]
- He judged by the cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. [2]
- The doctor approached the bed, felt Henrica's pulse, said a few words in a low tone to prepare her for her visitor, and then took the lamp to see how the invalid looked. [10]
- Nay, the thought that Wolff owed his life to him aided her always to be kind to her father-in-law, no matter how much he wounded her, and to tend him no less carefully than she had formerly cared for her invalid mother. [10]
- One comfort was that Anne was the patientest, gentlest invalid that could be. [14]
- Her hand was still conscious of his burning kiss as she entered the cool room where the Lady Neforis sat awaiting the return of the party, turning her spinning-wheel by the couch of her invalid husband who always went to rest at late hours. [10]
- She detained Eva so long that dinner was over at the Ortlieb mansion, and her impatient father would have sent for her had not the invalid mother urged him to let her remain. [10]
- Yet a mischievous smile hovered around her lips as, bending over the invalid, she added in a whisper: "But the good I expect from all the evil is, that we and the Eysvogels will be separated as if by wall and moat. [10]
- The next day she could bear suspense no longer, and set out for Haworth, reaching there just in time to carry the feeble, fainting invalid into the chaise which stood at the gate to take them down to Keighley. [14]
- At last I saw a man on horseback--a merchant from Kelaenze--dragged him from his horse, jumped into the saddle, and, before the next morning dawned, I was back again with our invalid, bringing the best physician in Sardis, and Oroetes' most commodious travelling-carriage. [10]
- The invalid mother sat in her chair within the door; the servants were gathered on the lawn, and Ivie Rawlinson and Banks lingered where they had held my stirrup. [9]
- But should the prisoner die in captivity, or should he go an invalid to the scaffold, there would only be pity excited in the world for him. [11]
- You nurse the poor invalid like one, and if you would only--" "Lysander has other plans, and Phaon's father is seeking an heiress for his son in Messina. [10]
- Something more than one hundred and thirty years ago there graduated at Harvard College a delicate youth, who lived an invalid life and died at the age of about fifty. [3]
- So Euthymia kept on with her visits, until she blushed to see that she was continuing her charitable office for one who was beginning to look too well to be called an invalid. [6]
- The invalid birds on the trees I still owe to my old allies the barbers. [10]
- I stepped out on the porch, where the invalid sat in her armchair. [9]
- Belotti and the old Italian woman often undertook to speak for the invalid, and gradually the image of a basely-destroyed life, that had been worthy of a better fate, appeared before Henrica and Wilhelm. [10]
- Then he ordered old Endres and two of the menservants to watch the sleeping-room of his invalid wife, that in case anything should happen the helpless woman might be instantly borne to a place of safety. [10]
- At the end of fifteen days the dyspeptics, the invalid, and the most delicate ladies in the party were chewing sailor-boots in ecstasy, and only complaining because the supply of them was limited. [5]
- In the month of February the invalid was playing chess with Ruth,--she had learned the game from the smith and Ulrich from her,--when Adam entered the room, saying: "when the game is over, I wish to speak to you, my son. [10]
- Fearing the consequences of agitation to one so recently an invalid, she made haste to give her father a promise that, on the morrow, Mr. Nicholls should have a distinct refusal. [14]
- But she was obliged to wait patiently, for Els, her older sister, would probably soon marry her Wolff, and then it would be her turn to nurse her invalid mother. [10]
- Twenty years from now she may be a vigorous and active old woman, and he a middle-aged, half-worn-out invalid, like so many overworked scholars. [6]
- Yet he did not grudge Myrtilus the wealth without which he could not imagine him, and which his invalid friend needed to continue successfully the struggle against the insidious disease inherited with the gold. [10]
- During Orion's absence, Nilus, the head of the exchequer, a shrewd and judicious Egyptian, had generally represented his invalid master; but on the present occasion Orion was appointed to take his place, and to preside over the assembly. [10]
- Now I must look after the invalid we are nursing here. [10]
- Through his brain, like a flash of lightning, darted the thought that Eva had spoken to him of her invalid mother. [10]
- If you only knew how abominable this woman is--" "I do know," the steward interrupted, "but she is an old woman, and it does not beseem you to abuse her; she represents the house under its invalid ruler. [10]
- It is very kind of them to make so light of the trouble, but still there must be more or less, and certainly no pleasure, from the society of a silent invalid stranger. [14]
- She was very just, the careful nurse of her invalid mother, and always unvarying in her cheerful kindness. [10]
- Every nation has its own ideas of right and wrong; every law can be rendered invalid by circumstances; but the results obtained from numbers can never be overthrown. [10]
- Yet how was it that here and now there came an overpowering feeling, that he must tell this healer of sick bodies the story of an invalid soul? [11]
- And if he is a swell invalid, who isn't obliged to depend upon parks for his country air, he can drive inside--if he owns his vehicle. [5]
- Mrs. L, an invalid, had to sleep on the locker--sofa under her port, and every time she over-slept and thus failed to take care of herself, the deck-washers drowned her out. [5]
- Peter was an invalid, and the whole weight of the perplexing affairs of the failing firm fell upon the one who detested business, and counted every hour lost that he gave to it. [4]
- He was an invalid, and looked it, as far as his body was concerned, but illness could not subdue his spirit. [5]
- He is an invalid and an old man who must be forgiven; but he is good and magnanimous and will love her who makes his son happy. [2]
- In her own home, however, it was a picture to see her with her younger sisters and brothers, and invalid mother. [11]
- Upon his return he was amazed and somewhat anxiously concerned to see his invalid sitting with her back to a corner of the cave and her bare feet swinging out. [13]
- But this invalid has to fight a champion who strikes hard but cannot be hit in return, who will press him sharply for breath, but will never pant himself while the wind can whistle through his fleshless ribs. [3]
- The invalid is full of inherited superstitions and won't starve himself. [5]
- All strength went from me apparently, and I fell back like a stricken invalid. [5]
- Els had concealed from her parents what she fancied she had discovered, for any anxiety injured the invalid, and no one could anticipate how her irritable father might receive the information of her fear. [10]
- The clock strikes four, Miss Lucretia starts up, suddenly remembering that she has promised to read to an invalid, and with many regrets from Mr. Worthington, she departs. [9]
- Ulrich had been forced far away from his royal companion-in-arms, and was now swinging his blade beside his invalid friend. [10]
- Though her longing for him still surged up in many a silent hour, she felt it an injustice, a stint of love to her invalid charge. [10]
- Thus Herr Ernst, far more anxious about his invalid, helpless wife than his imperilled wares, soon reached his own door. [10]
- But he was familiar with these convulsions which, it is true, weakened the invalid, but produced no other results; so he permitted Eva to help him put the last touches to his dress, on which he lavished great care. [10]
- Maria, surprised, but entirely relieved, left her and sought her husband to tell him how she had found the invalid, and in what relation the Spanish officer, slain by Allertssohn, seemed to have stood to Henrica and her sister. [10]
- The sweet-natured invalid enjoyed these festivities in her quiet way, and often pressed me to partake. [9]
- To my life's end I shall not forget that during the last few years, himself physically disabled and overburdened by the duties imposed by the office of professor and counsellor of the Consistory, he so often found his way to me, a still greater invalid. [10]
- When another attack drew her back to the invalid, a sign from her sister as she reached the threshold bade her keep away from the couch. [10]
- Severe suffering had disfigured the king's features, the cold perspiration was standing on his forehead, and his hands grasped the golden lions on the arms of the deep-seated invalid chair in which he was resting, almost convulsively. [10]
- This found ready credence, owing to the retired life led by the Ortliebs,--whose house had formerly been one of the most hospitable in the city,--ever since the wife had become an invalid and Eva had grown up with an aversion to the world. [10]
- What would the countess have done had she not been able sometimes to scold the invalid for not strictly obeying the doctor's orders? [2]
- Els and the convent Sister Renata, who helped her nurse the invalid, were now completely absorbed in caring for her, but Eva turned away from the beloved sufferer--her sensitive nature could not endure the sight of her convulsions. [10]
- Supporting an antique character, he seemed for the moment to have put on also something of antique strength of mind, and to be no longer the timid invalid. [11]
- Bathsheba Stoker was chained to the bedside of an invalid mother. [6]
- I tried to buy a diploma for an invalid friend at home who had never traveled, and whose desire all his life has been to ascend Mont Blanc, but the Guide-in-Chief rather insolently refused to sell me one. [5]
- Since Biberli had been deprived of his liberty she had rarely heard from Wolff, and his invalid father, for whose sake she remained in the house, seemed to view her with dislike. [10]
- Peter continued to be an invalid, and Washington himself, never robust, felt the pressure more and more of the irksome and unprosperous business affairs. [4]
- She was still asleep and, without permitting either curiosity or longing to divert her from her duty, Els kept her place beside the couch of the beloved invalid, spite of the fire alarm which, though somewhat subdued, was heard in the room. [10]
- Three days later, as he was about to enter the ward, Mr. Meader being now the only invalid there, he heard a sound which made him pause in the doorway. [9]
- Dr. Porter was an invalid, with the prophetic handkerchief bundling his throat, and his face "festooned"--as I heard Hillard say once, speaking of one of our College professors--in folds and wrinkles. [6]
- Lady Tennyson is an invalid, and though nothing could be more gracious than her reception of us both, I fear it may have cost her an effort which she would not allow to betray itself. [6]
- Mrs. Clemens is an invalid yet, but is getting along pretty fairly. [5]
- After telling him all they had done, the two Mr Garlands and the single gentleman, as if by some previous understanding, took their leaves for the night, leaving the invalid alone with the Notary and the small servant. [12]
- Her thoughts and acts, all her love and solicitude, referred solely to the invalid in her care. [10]
- The courts are abolished, and all transactions here in St. Louis are invalid. [9]
- The government has a sanitorium there, and everything is comfortable for the tourist and the invalid. [5]
- There she lay, a not unpleasing invalid to contemplate, always looking resigned, patient, serene, except when the one deeper grief was stirred, always arrayed with simple neatness, and surrounded with little tokens that showed the constant presence with her of tasteful and thoughtful affection. [6]
- I once heard a gouty northern invalid say that a cocoanut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning. [5]
- This had been a delicious refreshment to the sick woman, and when Kuni saw how much comfort her little service afforded the invalid, her heart grew lighter. [10]
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