Use suffering in a sentence
Sentences starting with suffering
- Suffering no one to accompany him, he carried the sick man to the boat which had brought the Queen's messenger to Rozel Bay. [11]
- Suffering is necessary... the meaning of all... one must harness... my wife is getting married... One must forget and understand..." And going to his bed he threw himself on it without undressing and immediately fell asleep. [2]
- Suffering perhaps it prefers, and contumely and persecution. [4]
Sentences ending with suffering
- How thin and worn he was, and how large the eyes were in the face grown hollow with suffering! [11]
- They were her world, and her sole pleasure was to satisfy the compassionate impulse in her own breast by severe toil, by tender solicitude, by night watching, and by exertions often continued to actual suffering. [10]
- Thus woe on woe, and at the same time the painfully paralyzing feeling of the hostility of Fate had been evoked from its surges and, instead of happiness, they had brought sorrow and suffering. [10]
- Lucilla nursed him with unfailing devotion and enjoyed the longed-for monopoly of his attentions through a period of much suffering. [10]
- He was haunted with many anxieties; in the first place, Ruth was overtaxing her strength in her hospital labors, and Philip felt as if he must move heaven and earth to save her from such toil and suffering. [5]
- Her lips, too, which she had but rarely and timidly opened for a question or an answer, were in constant motion; for how much she desired to know, how many questions she had to ask the silent husband who had endured such terrible suffering. [10]
- I knew not whether to pity or to be angry, such a strange blending she seemed of former pride and arrogance and later suffering. [9]
- Is it not well to remind the student from time to time that a physician's business is to avert disease, to heal the sick, to prolong life, and to diminish suffering? [3]
- Her faithful face was gray with suffering. [4]
- In fact, he used, unasked and secretly, a considerable portion of his large revenues to relieve the distress of the poor and suffering. [10]
Short sentences using suffering
- I am used to suffering. [2]
- His face expressed suffering. [2]
- She will not see suffering. [11]
- He was suffering physically. [2]
- However, there was physical suffering. [9]
- Aren't you suffering now? [13]
- He is suffering horribly. [9]
- He is suffering great pain. [10]
Sentences containing suffering two or more times
- It was all the same, for he was in search of suffering, and suffering, like weeds, grows on every road. [10]
More example sentences with the word suffering in them
- I am not you; I am a physician, one who has nothing to do except to take the field against suffering and death. [10]
- I dare say you will betray me to my father--" But Arsinoe did not finish her sentence, for Selene looked up at her with a mixture of suffering and alarm, and said: "I cannot be glad--I am in too much pain. [10]
- But what do you men care for the suffering you inflict on others? [10]
- He looked ten years older, and she felt with him the keen suffering which every step must cause. [10]
- For an entire year the suffering Fisher family remained quiet--even satisfied, after a fashion. [5]
- The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
- The man who would try to heal every suffering brute was accustomed to see those whom he loved best grieve on his account. [10]
- How much suffering would have been spared if you had! [10]
- She thought it would be an easy matter to keep awake while suffering such mental anguish. [10]
- Into those few words was thrown all the suffering of his silent years. [9]
- How can we wonder that the crowded and tempest-tossed voyagers, many of them already suffering, should have fallen before the trials of the first winter in Plymouth? [3]
- She was a woman; suffering, human, paying the price. [11]
- Melissa had confessed with far greater warmth what her feelings had been after she had sacrificed for the suffering sinner. [10]
- It was attended with cruel suffering and the most injurious results, but it was necessary for me to return to my comfortable winter quarters. [10]
- He presented himself with a somewhat forlorn countenance to Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut, as suffering from some of the less formidable symptoms of that affection. [6]
- His skill and wisdom were the last tribunal to which the sick and suffering could appeal. [3]
- A delicate nature will not commonly choose a pursuit which implies the habitual infliction of suffering, so readily as some gentler office. [6]
- Yet, on the whole, I felt a certain complacency about it all; I knew that suffering was disagreeable, I had learned how to avoid it, and I may have had, deep within me, a feeling that I might marry her after all. [9]
- Why he, whose whole life was a crucifixion, should not love to look on that divine image of blameless suffering, I cannot see; on the contrary, it seems to me the most natural thing in the world that he should. [6]
- Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm. [6]
- He felt intoxicated, while he was alive to the fact that during the descent of the few steps she was suffering great pain. [10]
- There were circumstances which made it necessary for me to stay through the hour hours to the end, and I stayed; but the recollection of that long, dragging, relentless season of suffering is indestructible. [5]
- The headache, from which he had long been suffering, had disappeared in the fresh mountain air. [10]
- The severe suffering which has darkened so large a portion of my life has been attributed to this fracture, but the idea is probably incorrect; otherwise the consequences would have appeared earlier. [10]
- The time comes when we have learned to understand the music of sorrow, the beauty of resigned suffering, the holy light that plays over the pillow of those who die before their time, in humble hope and trust. [6]
- Day by day, when I, saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love: I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. [14]
- The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again. [5]
- But the chances were I should not have developed it, since it would seem that any salvation for me at least must come precisely through suffering, through not getting what I wanted. [9]
- 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]
- In the night we sailed by a most notable curiosity, and one we had been hearing a good deal about for a day or two, and were suffering to see. [5]
- In the same way, that other realist, M. Zola, has painted a patient suffering from delirium tremens, the disease known to common speech as "the horrors. [6]
- He noticed her watching him, raised his eyes, and began to speak seriously: "One thing would be terrible," said he: "to bind oneself forever to a suffering man. [2]
- The other messenger was to take the leech back again in the light chariot with the fast horses to the suffering Mukaukas. [10]
- Their common suffering was the bond which again united them in affection. [10]
- How acutely he was suffering could be seen in his drawn mouth and sad eyes, but he would not allow himself to be interrupted, often as the abbess and the gardener entreated him to lay aside the stylus. [10]
- Her health, too, was suffering at this time. [14]
- The farmer's beard was overgrown, and the eyes looked up at him as from caverns of suffering below the bandage. [9]
- Many said it was not in Father Peter's character and must be a mistake; but the others shook their heads and said misery and want could drive a suffering man to almost anything. [5]
- He saw she was in suffering, and said presently, "You have pain somewhere; where is it? [6]
- The younger physician was disposed to think she was only suffering from temporary excitement, and that it would soon pass off. [6]
- But, when he was alone with his mother once more, he had felt happier and happier, and the remembrance of the transient rapture he had known had alleviated the pain he was suffering on Katharina's account. [10]
- The other man was a stalwart ruffian called "Arkansas," who carried two revolvers in his belt and a bowie knife projecting from his boot, and who was always drunk and always suffering for a fight. [5]
- In this extraordinary war, extraordinary developments have manifested themselves, such as have not been seen in former wars; and among these manifestations nothing has been more remarkable than these fairs for the relief of suffering soldiers and their families. [7]
- It was the voice of suffering womanhood, a sound that goes up day and night, one long chorus of tortured victims. [6]
- We entertain different views upon political questions, but nobody is suffering anything. [7]
- The doctor was used to scenes of sorrow, but the sight of this man's suffering unnerved him, and he turned from it. [9]
- These proposals, which Uri had not yet ventured to moot to his father, he, with good intentions, brought before the assembled elders; he hoped that their acceptance might spare the people great suffering. [10]
- I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. [5]
- Now he spoke up and said, in the voice of one who is secretly suffering, "You're the fourth--I'm going to move. [5]
- You did an unmanly thing; you are suffering a manly remorse. [11]
- It was the uncontrollable woman in her, the mother-thing, belonging to the first woman that ever was-protection of the weak, hovering love for the suffering, the ministering spirit. [11]
- The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood. [2]
- You must n't trust the dentists; they are all the time looking at the people who have bad teeth, and such as are suffering from toothache. [6]
- But for the trouble in her throat, Barbara would have been physically as well as ever; her mental suffering was never greater. [10]
- The music quickened, tripping in ecstasy, to change by subtle phrases into themes of exquisite suffering hitherto unexperienced. [9]
- The slender fingers trembled in his clasp, and when, with loving anxiety, he drew her towards him, he felt the tremor of her delicate limbs, while her eyes expressed bitter suffering and terrible dread. [10]
- It had early transpired that Rosannah, poor suffering orphan, had neither returned to her grandmother in Portland, Oregon, nor sent any word to her save a duplicate of the woeful note she had left in the mansion on Telegraph Hill. [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 storm subsided toward daybreak, and I dozed gradually to sleep with a sense of obligation to Lem Hackett for going to eternal suffering in that abrupt way, and thus preventing a far more dreadful disaster--my own loss. [5]
- The years of torment and suffering were written there in characters not to be mistaken. [9]
- You think me too shallow and feeble, to endure suffering and death for the sacred cause, which is mine as well as yours! [10]
- From what was told me by Mr. C. P. Ferguson, a planter near Red River Landing, whose place has just gone under, there is much suffering in the rear of that place. [5]
- He unburdened himself to Twichell and to Howells, after a period of suffering. [5]
- They both forbore to torture me with words, for I was suffering greatly; but they fetched me to the Chateau St. Louis, followed by a crowd, who hooted at me. [11]
- He was subject to the same weariness of the flesh and fatigue of the spirit as all men; yet it was expected of him that at any hour he should be at the disposal of suffering humanity--of criminal or idiotic humanity--patient, devoted, calm, nervestrung, complete. [11]
- The Prince continued to struggle for freedom, and to rage against the treatment he was suffering, until John Canty lost what little patience was left in him, and raised his oaken cudgel in a sudden fury over the Prince's head. [5]
- Ulrich was obliged to share the jester's sleeping-room, and as Pellicanus shrank from getting out of bed, while suffering from night-sweats, and often needed something, he roused Ulrich from his sleep, and the latter was always ready to assist him. [10]
- Dr. Collins refers to several instances in which puerperal fever has appeared to originate from a continued proximity to patients suffering with typhus. [3]
- Everything was done to make me enjoy my visit to Oxford, but I was suffering from a severe cold, and was paying the penalty of too much occupation and excitement. [6]
- She came back to London more ravishing than before, and (I use his Lordship's somewhat extravagant language) her suffering had stamped upon her face even more of character and power. [9]
- Her suffering seemed to have relaxed. [9]
- Her suffering seemed to have brought upon her a certain acceptance of misfortune as inevitable. [9]
- Words seem useless to express the complicated nature of my suffering at that moment,--my remorse, my sense of deception, of hypocrisy,--yes, and my terror. [9]
- It was hard to associate them with anything cruel or dreadful; and yet they dealt in tales of blood and suffering with a guileless relish that made me almost forget to shudder. [5]
- I am suffering to ask you some questions. [5]
- I am blind to all distinctions when my eyes are opened to any form of suffering, to any spectacle of want. [6]
- Most of the time was consumed by the suffering maestro and the arrangements which she had to make for him. [10]
- For the first time he saw in her the suffering which often causes a metamorphosis in certain traits in a sick person's character extend their transforming power to the entire nature. [10]
- He had gone through so much within the past twenty-four hours that the capacity for suffering had almost exhausted itself, and in the reaction endearing thoughts of Rosalie had dominion over him. [11]
- The man thus threatened was Joshua, and his companion in suffering Ephraim, who had been sentenced to share his fate. [10]
- Guida, so Detricand thought, might break her heart and live on; this woman would break her heart and die: the one would grow larger through suffering, the other shrink to a numb coldness. [11]
- She had no thought of hunger, or cold, or thirst, or suffering. [12]
- It is only those who live to remember and to lament that the suffering comes which has been spared the victim. [4]
- This unhappy captive, this suffering supplicant, could still draw into her net any man who did not possess the cool watchfulness which panoplied his soul. [10]
- The subject of this memoir was of a vicious disposition, and early prostituted his talents to the invention of maxims and aphorisms calculated to inflict suffering upon the rising generation of all subsequent ages. [5]
- Titianus during all this festive season was unluckily suffering from an attack of old-standing breathlessness, and he also had his hands full; at the same time he did his best in helping Pontius in seeking out the sculptor Pollux. [10]
- He is much thinner, and his face betrays acute suffering. [9]
- All suffering, I think, is brought about by stupidity. [9]
- Minutes passed as they studied, felt, and admired the skin, the hunter proud of his son, the son alive with a primitive passion, which inflicts suffering to get the beautiful thing. [11]
- Mr Swiveller contemplated these things for a short time, and suffering the curtain to fall into its former position, laid his head on the pillow again. [12]
- But as yet these joys of love far, far outweighed the suffering which it caused. [10]
- I don't believe there's any real suffering--not real suffering--among those people; that is, it would be suffering from our point of view, but they've been used to it all their lives, and they don't feel their' discomfort so much. [8]
- I don't suppose there's any more suffering here to the population than there is in the country. [8]
- If he had, there would be some mitigation of her suffering. [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]
- Yet she forced them back, though the deep suffering from which they sprung was touchingly apparent in the tone of her voice, as she continued: "I have often wished, Herr Lienhard, that the cart was my coffin and the tavern the graveyard. [10]
- The burning of their town had brought new and fearful suffering on the stricken Memphites, and notwithstanding Katharina's death the Nile still did not rise. [10]
- He had been their physician and treated them kindly-an elderly man, he had himself undergone sore trials and, knowing the pain of suffering, was ready to alleviate the pangs of others. [10]
- As it chanced, the watch, suffering from the cold night air, had gone into the bush to bring wood for firing. [11]
- But she met the warning eye of the man himself, calm and resolute, she saw the suffering in the face, endured with what composure! [11]
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