Use sickness in a sentence
Sentences starting with sickness
- Sickness teaches us that we must condone, and not condemn. [9]
- Sickness in the house, perhaps contagious sickness, perhaps the plague. [10]
- Sickness and sin have ever had their doctors; but the question is, Have they become less because of them? [5]
- Sickness troubles her. [11]
Sentences ending with sickness
- She bore it without sickness. [14]
- It had been with him through all his sickness. [11]
- I do not want now for kind companionship in health and the tenderest nursing in sickness. [14]
- During her absence Uarda was to rub her grandfather's temples with the leaves which the witch Hekt had laid on her bruises, for as they had once proved efficacious they might perhaps a second time scare away the demon of sickness. [10]
- But there was trouble in the laugh too--a bitter sickness. [11]
- Then I came to know that a fall unawares with her horse had been the beginning of my aunt's long sickness. [10]
- I had little to do; there was only one sick man on board, and my hand could not cure his sickness. [11]
- It is Wingfield's testimony that Ratcliffe said he would not have been deposed if he had visited Ratcliffe during his sickness. [4]
- Just now there seems to be an epidemic of rhyming as bad as the dancing mania, or the sweating sickness. [6]
- At this hour of the day many are struck with sickness. [10]
More example sentences with the word sickness in them
- The face, so yellow and peaked, was of the type that grows even more handsome in sickness, and in the great fever-stricken eyes a high spirit burned. [9]
- Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
- A new sickness wore upon her. [11]
- It fills them with grief and alarms; and, would you believe it--such anguish of mind, especially when the Nile is so low and there is more sickness than usual, gives rise to numberless forms of disease? [10]
- The Comtesse Chantavoine, who still held her hand, pressed it, though herself cold as ice with sickness of spirit. [11]
- The night, on which sorrow and sickness had entered the Hoogstraten mansion, was followed by a beautiful morning. [10]
- May the sickness which has fallen on your neighbors, spare you and yours. [10]
- Two years during which a nation struggled in agony with sickness, and even the great strength with which she was endowed at birth was not equal to the task of throwing it off. [9]
- Since the time when the world was young, no white man hath been there save one, and behold sickness fell on him; the grave is his end. [11]
- During their absence, when Charmian had been attacked by sickness, Cleopatra had often entrusted the care of her toilet to Aisopion, and had praised her skill. [10]
- State House affairs were far removed from most of these, and the sickness and corruption of the body politic. [9]
- Sickness, death, and trouble of many kinds put a blight on the happiness of their first married year and gave, them a distaste for the home in which they had made such a promising start. [5]
- As Ruth Leigh tramped along late this afternoon in the slush of the streets, from one house of sickness and poverty to another, a sense of her puny efforts in this great mass of suffering and injustice came over her anew. [4]
- The more sickness there is, the more radiant she is. [4]
- The Indians killed them, the rivers and the storms, the plague and the fire, the sickness and the cold wiped them out. [11]
- They were with thee, as was I, Saadat, when the great sickness fell upon us, and were healed by thee, and afterwards fought with thee. [11]
- Meseemed as though the knight had laid some part of his sickness upon him, inasmuch that many a time he coughed much. [10]
- But this, from the diminished strength of our army by sickness and casualties, renders an addition to it necessary in order to close the struggle which has been prosecuted for the last three months with energy and success. [7]
- All that we term sin, sickness, and death is comprised in the belief of matter. [5]
- Early in the spring of 1861 there were some cases of sickness in Madam Delacoste's establishment, which led to closing the school for a while. [6]
- There had been some sickness, but the general health of the expedition was excellent. [11]
- But waking or sleeping, by night or day, in sickness or health, she is the one object of my care, and if you knew of how much care, you would look on me with different eyes, you would indeed. [12]
- It is a sickness that gives raging pain--like a poisoned arrow in an open wound, and devours all that is near it like a fire-brand, and is harder to cure than the disease which is killing that coughing wench. [10]
- But the dreadful sickness increased and increased, till the very sight of food occasioned nausea. [14]
- This same great sickness could hardly have been yellow fever, as it occurred in the month of November. [3]
- A noxious agent should never be employed in sickness unless there is ample evidence in the particular case to overcome the general presumption against all such agents, and the evidence is very apt to be defective. [6]
- And yet sickness seemed to trouble him no more than poverty. [4]
- A mortal sickness seemed to invade her vitals, and she went to her own chamber and flung herself, face downward, on the lace covering of the bed: and the sobs that shook her were the totterings of the foundations of her universe. [9]
- Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, the second Macedonian King of Egypt, had built it as an appendage to the Temple of Artemis, after the recovery from sickness of his wife Arsinoe. [10]
- Here they are safe from poverty, cared for in sickness, and have no fear of being handed over to the keepers of carrion, or being the food of the gallinaso. [11]
- Still I felt pleasurably excited in spite of headache, sickness, and conscious clownishness; and I saw Anne was calm and gentle, which she always is. [14]
- People flocked from other towns, and though, to some who had been cured, their pains and sickness returned, there were a few who bore perfect evidence to his teaching and healing, and followed him, "converted and consecrated," as though he were a new Messiah. [11]
- There was no other case of sickness on board, and I could devote plenty of time to him. [11]
- Without the presence or the fear of these exotic maladies, the forlorn voyagers of the Mayflower had sickness enough to contend with. [3]
- Janet's eyes fell on the bureau, marked the absence of several knick-knacks, including a comb and brush, and with a sudden sickness of apprehension she darted to the wardrobe and flung open the doors. [9]
- According to the old regulations, they were without roofs, but as many deaths and much sickness had occurred among the workmen in consequence of the cold nights, they had been slightly sheltered with palm-branches brought from the oasis of the Alnalckites, at no great distance. [10]
- At the end of the fourth year his sickness came upon him with more violence, yet he went forth and back, and ever hoped to be healed, even when he took to his bed four weeks before the end. [10]
- Say I could not come to the evening revel on account of headache, toothache, sickness, anything you like. [10]
- She had had no sleep in four days, and it was wearing on her, she said to herself, refusing to believe that a sickness was coming. [11]
- We heard of no casualties among them, and no sickness. [5]
- But to the newly-wedded pair what meaning in those words, "for better, for worse," "in sickness and in health," "till death us do part! [3]
- I came to my wits with an immoderate feeling of faintness and sickness, with no more remembrance of things past than has a man bereft of reason. [9]
- We had traveled much more than twenty thousand miles, by land and sea, in many trying climates, without a single hurt, without a serious case of sickness and without a death among five and sixty passengers. [5]
- Her words were melancholy and mild; and when Paula remarked on this Philippus observed: "It is on the bed of sickness that we learn to know our fellow-creatures. [10]
- With George--reckless, useless, loving, lying George--she had left Lumley's with her sickness cured, as it seemed, after a long year in the West, and had begun life again. [11]
- Vicksburg held out longer than any other important river-town, and saw warfare in all its phases, both land and water--the siege, the mine, the assault, the repulse, the bombardment, sickness, captivity, famine. [5]
- And when the Lady Barrowdale sickened and died of the same sickness which had nearly been her own death, the promise she made then overrode all other covenants made for her. [11]
- Whoever was not kept in the house by duty or sickness was eager to be out. [10]
- As early as July, "in his sickness time, the President did easily fortell his own deposing from his command," so much did he differ from the Council in the management of the colony. [4]
- Howells could not join in these ventures, for he was otherwise occupied and had sickness in his household. [5]
- His Mother had it kill'd, which occasioned him a great Fit of Sickness, and 'twas thought would have dy'd, but did recover. [6]
- As if in irony of man's sacrifice, the All Hail and the Master of Things permitted the fool to fulfil his own prophecy, and die of a sudden sickness in the coming-on of summer. [11]
- Was there sickness in the parish, her hand smoothed the pillow and soothed the pain. [11]
- The sudden change in the old man's appearance had not been lost on the spectators, but they set it down to weakness or a sudden sickness. [11]
- No life was in sight, but necessarily there must have been some wounded in the rear ranks, who were carried off the field under cover of the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the others--there always is, after an episode like that. [5]
- The Senator wrought in Bible classes, and nothing could keep him away from the Sunday Schools--neither sickness nor storms nor weariness. [5]
- It was no impetus of healthy feeling which urged her to the confessional, for instance; it was the semi-delirium of solitary grief and sickness. [14]
- But those whom I love, my father and my brothers, are also gone to the war; my mother is long since dead; the noble woman, whom the king left to be my companion, was laid low a few weeks since by sickness. [10]
- Wretched nest of human vermin about the fountain--rags, dirt, sunken cheeks, pallor of sickness, sores, projecting bones, dull, aching misery in their eyes and ravenous hunger speaking from every eloquent fibre and muscle from head to foot. [5]
- Tom learned of Huck's sickness and went to see him on Friday, but could not be admitted to the bedroom; neither could he on Saturday or Sunday. [5]
- R. S. Well, how does sickness seem to agree with you? [5]
- Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live? [9]
- She had laid her wounded head on the pillow of sickness with a darkened brain, and the new pain had lifted the veil from her mind as a storm clears the oppressive atmosphere of a sultry summer's day. [10]
- He was to have been married in this month, and at the time of his sickness and sudden death, I was adding apartments to my house for his permanent accommodation. [6]
- When, after a hasty kiss, she left him and went into the room of sickness, and the door closed after her, standing where she had left him he laughed a hard crackling laugh, and said between his teeth: "An upset price! [11]
- You, happy rascal, hardly know what sickness means! [10]
- And again they had turned to him, and he, because he knew of a miraculous medicine got from Indian sachems, whose people had suffered of this sickness, came into the little city, and by his medicines and fearless love and kindness stayed the plague. [11]
- Then when he had spoken thus much, with great pains, his pale face turned red on a sudden, and again he asked, as he had many times in his sickness, where was his master's letter. [10]
- The Pavlograd regiment had had only two men wounded in action, but had lost nearly half its men from hunger and sickness. [2]
- And this last great sickness cured his madness: and he remembered whence he had come, and what befell him at Diamond City so many moons ago. [11]
- It was her great advantage to live where nothing was required of her but truth, she had not suffered that sickness, social artifice. [11]
- When her sickness got worse, off he went with 'Au revoir, my dear--I will be back to supper. [11]
- No, he's never going to see Eliza, and if it isn't provisions or love it's nothing short of sickness. [4]
- Martha has suffered from tic-douloureux, with sickness and fever, just like you. [14]
- They had gathered from many points of the compass and from many lands, but not one was missing; there was no tale of sickness or death among the flock to dampen the pleasure of the reunion. [5]
- That smote me, for she was slowly getting well of a sickness, and it would have been a proud moment for him, to see her joy and surprise and have her caresses. [5]
- The great guns firing make the day a burden, the nights are ever fretted by the dangers of surprise, and there is scarce time to bury the dead whom sickness and the sword destroy. [11]
- Before she could express her surprise, Andreas begged her to have a few minutes' patience; the daemons of sickness were here to be exorcised and driven out of the sufferer. [10]
- We are all egotists in sickness and debility. [6]
- As the old Doctor was his counsellor in sickness, and almost everybody's confidant in trouble, he had intended to impart cautiously to him some hints of the change of sentiments through which he had been passing. [6]
- I was myself depressed with headache and sickness. [14]
- When, at his departing, I saw that Ann was in no better heart than I was, but looked right doleful, I thought it was by reason of the sickness which for some while past had now and again fallen on her good father. [10]
- They camped, several days afterward, on the western verge of Iowa, and poverty, want, hunger, cold, sickness, grief and persecution did their work, and many succumbed and died--martyrs, fair and true, whatever else they might have been. [5]
- She shrank away confused, a kind of sickness in her eyes. [11]
- And so he comes to know the heart of the man who hath sickness, and calls upon someone, even though it be a weak woman, to cure his sickness; who is bowed low as beside a grave, and would stand upright. [11]
- Then his sickness came, and I could not strike an ailing man. [11]
- Headache and sickness came on first on the Sunday; I could not regain my appetite. [14]
- There had never been so much sickness, she wrote, and such an opportunity for her. [4]
- Women's wages can't be expected to do more than feed and clothe 'em, as a gineral thing, with a little savin', in case of sickness, and to bury 'em, if they break daown, as all of 'em are liable to do at any time. [6]
- We used to be as hard on sickness as you were on sin. [6]
- When they returned back to their inn, poor Charlotte paid for the excitement of the interview, which had wound up the agitation and hurry of the last twenty-four hours, by a racking headache and harassing sickness. [14]
- And it will avail any church little to have a dozen settlement houses while her members acquiesce in a State which refuses to relieve her citizens from sickness and poverty. [9]
- Pierre had arrived at the Post three days before, to find a half-breed trapper and an Indian helpless before the sickness which was hurrying to close on John Fawdor's heart and clamp it in the vice of death. [11]
- We don't look at sickness as we used to, and try to poison it with everything that is offensive, burnt toads and earth-worms and viper-broth, and worse things than these. [6]
- You've cured others, and this is an awful sickness. [11]
- Hunger and misery and sickness and fright and sorrow, and I don't know what all, got so loaded into them that none of them were ever rightly their old selves after the siege. [5]
- Our eyes met, and in that instant for me there was neither joy nor sorrow, sickness nor death, nor time nor space nor universe. [9]
- And you preach, and baptise; and marry, and bury, and care for the poor and--ah, what is it?--'all those who, in this transitory life, are in sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity'? [11]
- His physical strength and agility during the first days of his imprisonment were such that he seemed not to know what fatigue and sickness meant. [2]
- Her sensation was akin to sickness. [9]
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