Use sufferings in a sentence
Sentences ending with sufferings
- I have told you already how sorry I was for your sufferings. [10]
- With her he would cast anchor for the remainder of his life; but first must come the period when he enjoyed the compensation now awarded to him for such severe sufferings. [10]
- Now, if ever, was the time to offer sacrifice for Caesar and for the mitigation of his sufferings. [10]
- As he reflected upon this he became less eager to look Fulkerson up and make the magazine a partner of his own sufferings. [8]
- The experienced physician shook his white locks gravely and said: "Whoever uttered that is near the end of his sufferings. [10]
- If he had not come back the captain and the two young passengers might have been slain, now, by these sailors, who were becoming crazed through their sufferings. [5]
- The allies detest Napoleon whom they regard as the cause of their sufferings. [2]
- Her father was interested in these things, especially as, through them, and the power of the mighty Isis, he expected to obtain relief from his many and severe sufferings. [10]
- I was still ignorant that the Muse kisses only those who have won her love by the greatest sufferings. [10]
- I can never forget the pathos that was in his voice as he told, in simple language, the story of his people's wanderings and unpitied sufferings. [5]
Short sentences using sufferings
- He digested his sufferings alone. [2]
- Nick's sufferings became more comprehensible. [9]
- Anne's sufferings still continue mild. [14]
- And his sufferings! [10]
Sentences containing sufferings two or more times
- Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in innocent sufferings. [2]
More example sentences with the word sufferings in them
- She had seen you yesterday morning, and fancied she had noted how great and severe your sufferings were. [10]
- The immense sufferings you endured from the first days of September till the middle of February you never tried to conceal from me, and I well understood. [7]
- Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
- Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
- The handsome rake's unlimited dissipations were severely checked by his sufferings, but not altogether prevented, and on his return to Rome he continued to indulge in all the pleasures of life. [10]
- In a conversational tone he described the sufferings of the man in the flannel shirt beside him, but there could be no question of the fact that he did produce an effect. [9]
- It is useless to talk about the Polar sufferings of Dr. Kane to a guest at a metropolitan hotel, in the midst of luxury, when the mosquito sings all night in his ear, and his mutton-chop is overdone at breakfast. [4]
- It was said to have a bad effect after long and frequent use, and she had often checked the Mukaukas in taking it too freely; but could her sufferings be greater? [10]
- It seemed as though she were giving vent to the suppressed feelings, imaginations, sufferings and wrongs of years. [11]
- I say only this: if he is at all timid, the enjoyments of the trip will hardly make up for the hardships and sufferings he will have to endure. [5]
- The sufferings of this colony in the summer equaled that of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in the winter and spring. [4]
- I cannot help thinking of their last days, remembering their sufferings, and what they said and did, and how they looked in mortal affliction. [14]
- He declares that their annoyances, sufferings, mortifications, envies, jealousies, disappointments, dissatisfactions (and so on through the dictionary of disagreeable emotions), are a great deal more than those of the poor, and that they are more worthy of sympathy. [4]
- Well equipped by the thoughts and sufferings of five long years, her spirit was trained to meet this onset with fiery wisdom. [11]
- The anguish and the fright which this thought gave me made my previous sufferings seem trifling by comparison. [5]
- He was under the effect of opiates,--why not (if his case was desperate, as it seemed to be considered) stop his sufferings with chloroform? [6]
- The fountains of the deep had been broken up, and Sybil Eglington's repressed emotions, undeveloped passions, tortured by mortal sufferings, and refined and vitalised by the atmosphere blown in upon her last hours from the Hereafter, were set free, given voice and power at last. [11]
- Then she confessed that the Emperor's sufferings and melancholy mood had induced her to subject them to the discomforts of the trip to Ratisbon. [10]
- Resolved, That the sum of three hundred pounds be paid to Captain Robert Moray, in consideration of his services to the country, and his singular sufferings in his confinement, as a hostage, in Quebec. [11]
- And the charm sufficed; for suddenly of a cheerless morning they came upon a trapper's hut in the wilderness, where their sufferings ceased, and the sight of Shon's eyes came back. [11]
- As to Caesar's sufferings, they are so severe, your tender soul would not wish your worst enemy to know such pain. [10]
- I think Bonnivard's sufferings have been overrated. [5]
- Were it not so I should have heard of her own sufferings, of her poor, hunted life from place to place, of countless nights made sleepless by the past. [9]
- Besides, so far, she had not been actively vindictive-- simply passively indifferent to the sufferings of others. [11]
- Looking round, he saw men whose sufferings were no doubt as great as his own or greater; but they were living on for others' sakes. [11]
- The people of Rome had endured unimaginable sufferings at his hands; but the cup was full, and, judging from Caesar's looks, he would cause it to overflow this day. [10]
- Finally, his sufferings remind him often enough of the approach of death, and he hopes by religious exercises to secure his place in the kingdom of heaven. [10]
- And then he related what wonderful influence she had over Caesar's sufferings, and praised her with his usual enthusiastic warmth. [10]
- My whole being rebelled against my sufferings, and--why should I conceal it?--burning tears drenched my pillows after many a happy day. [10]
- The physician could promise the old man some mitigation of his sufferings, and they liked each other so well that they parted the best of friends, and not till a late hour. [10]
- She had many privations and sufferings to undergo at first, but her worth and her gentle disposition won influential friends for her, and she built up a wealthy and flourishing nunnery. [5]
- The industrious, volatile populace had speedily forgotten the sufferings endured, for early spring is so beautiful, and never does a rescued life seem so delicious as when we are surrounded by the joys of spring. [10]
- I wished not only to give him what I had begun to grasp, to study with him, to be his companion and friend, but to spare him, if possible, some of my own mistakes and sufferings and punishments. [9]
- The world thought only of the sufferings he had inflicted on others; no one dreamed of the pangs he had to endure--no one but herself, to whom Galenus had spoken of them. [10]
- There is but one antidote to hatred, and that is pity; it was with the eager compassion of a woman's heart that Melissa marked every movement of the imperial murderer, as soon as she recognized his sufferings, and when their eyes had met. [10]
- She thought at once of Pollux, and asked herself why the story of her sufferings should have moved him so deeply if he were not in love with her. [10]
- My sufferings drew on my flesh, my blood, and my spirits, and to this was added that disease inaction, the corrosion of solitude, and the fever of suspense and uncertainty as to Alixe and Juste Duvarney. [11]
- With the help of the Indian who had shared the sick man's sufferings in the Barren Grounds, the factor and Hume nursed him back to life. [11]
- With a sensation of most blissful rest, better than sleep itself, he began gradually to remember something of these sufferings, and to think what a long night it had been, and whether he had not been delirious twice or thrice. [12]
- She was never obvious or commonplace, and long before I began to experience the discomforts and sufferings of youthful love I was fascinated by a nature eloquent with contradictions and inconsistencies. [9]
- O great Asklepios, O bountiful and gracious Hygeia, ease his sufferings, which are indeed beyond endurance! [10]
- His coming had nothing to do with her sufferings or with their relief. [2]
- It was evidently not so much his sufferings that caused him to moan (he had dysentery) as his fear and grief at being left alone. [2]
- A pure and noble Jacobite maiden, of her own free and beautiful impulse, has sacrificed herself after the example of the Saviour, for the sufferings of her nation, before your eyes. [10]
- Always keeping this near him in past years, a supreme cheerfulness of heart had welled up out of his early sufferings and his innate honesty. [11]
- Talk about Sir Mortimer Durand's sufferings for a single night! [5]
- The hungry, made more desperate by their own sufferings or the spectacle of starving families, were increasingly difficult to control: many wished to return to work, others clamoured for violence, nor were these wholly discouraged by a portion of the leaders. [9]
- I trust it may not last long, for it really seems to me that no glory to be gained can compensate for the sufferings which must be endured. [14]
- I could scarcely leave the hall in my overweening pleasure, and yet it would have beseemed me far better to share the sufferings of the crucified Saviour. [10]
- All her inward labor, her dissatisfaction with herself, her sufferings, her strivings after goodness, her meekness, love, and self-sacrifice--all this now shone in those radiant eyes, in her delicate smile, and in every trait of her gentle face. [2]
- I do not know that I feel any worse than I did last Sunday, notwithstanding the reduction of diet; and I trust that we may all have strength given us to sustain the sufferings and hardships of the coming week. [5]
- He did, however, know of that moment when her passionate heart broke over him in tenderness; and she tried to make him think, by things said since, that it was only pity for his sufferings which made her do it. [11]
- This, of course, intensified the sufferings of the awakening--so the mortifications of each succeeding morning of the few that passed between his return to bondage and the combat with Hugo, grew bitterer and bitterer, and harder and harder to bear. [5]
- There had been, indeed, a strong and strange attraction which had drawn her to him; even now she was glad to have been of service to him, and to have helped him to endure the sufferings laid upon him by a cruel fate. [10]
- The other night I was at the Engineers' Club, and enjoyed the sufferings of Mr. Carnegie. [5]
- When, at last, however, a doctor was consulted, he declared my lungs and chest sound, and ascribed all my sufferings to derangement of the liver, on which organ it seems the inflammation had fallen. [14]
- He felt in his own person the sufferings and death he had witnessed on the battlefield. [2]
- These thoughts made him weep, and weep more broken-heartedly than ever; and be wished that she could see his sufferings now. [5]
- Miss Bronte describes herself as having utterly lost her appetite, and as looking "grey, old, worn and sunk," from her sufferings during the inclement season. [14]
- It slipped off her lap and limped away, while she sat staring blankly before her, and at last forgot her sufferings in an uneasy slumber, till she was roused by Iambe's barking and the Alexandrian's footstep. [10]
- And he understood her feelings, her sufferings, shame, and remorse. [2]
- Of all that he himself subsequently termed his sufferings, but which at the time he scarcely felt, the worst was the state of his bare, raw, and scab-covered feet. [2]
- After the sufferings he had been enduring, Prince Andrew enjoyed a blissful feeling such as he had not experienced for a long time. [2]
- What a lesson he gave me of patience under sufferings which the fearful description of the Eastern poet does not picture too vividly! [6]
- It could not have diminished their sufferings any to be so uncouthly represented. [5]
- The royal lady had inquired about him and his sufferings with almost sisterly interest, and Althea eagerly confirmed the statement. [10]
- I have borne great poverty myself, and would spare her the sufferings that poverty carries with it. [12]
- He would have gone to the stake before he would have violated an oath, but the stake would have probably been no greater punishment than his sufferings that year. [5]
- Her mind seems generally serene, and her sufferings hitherto are nothing like Emily's. [14]
- Cromwell's message was full of comforting reflections upon his sufferings and upon the injustice that had been done to him by the late King. [11]
- It has ceased from its Sufferings, it has gone to a better Land; all that is left of it for its loved Ones to lament over, is this poor smoldering Ash-heap. [5]
- The principal motive for this momentous act he could state most positively to be the increasing burden of his physical sufferings. [10]
- So don't you fool away any sympathy on the poor mariner's dangers and privations and sufferings. [5]
- And the Creoles fell to scoffing at their sufferings and even forgot their hunger in staring at the goal. [9]
- He could not escape his debtor and his debtor's awful sufferings on account of not being able to pay. [5]
- I could not escape from or rise above certain most mournful recollections,--the last days, the sufferings, the remembered words--most sorrowful to me, of those who, Faith assures me, are now happy. [14]
- He did not die at once, and his sufferings were very dreadful. [5]
- It was a detailed account of the sufferings of officers and crew, as given by the third officer and members of the crew. [5]
- It contained a detailed account of Nitetis' sufferings, ending with these words: "Thus the unhappy victim of your ambitious plans will end her life in a few hours by poison, to the use of which she was driven by despair. [10]
- Once in the desert, when men were dying round him of fever and dysentery, he had been obliged, exhausted and ill, scarce able to drag himself from his bed, to resort to an opiate to allay his own sufferings, that he might minister to others. [11]
- I know and deeply deplore the sufferings which the workingmen at Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this crisis. [7]
- Miss Lucretia understood Cynthia, who also was the kind who kept her heart hidden, the kind who conceal their troubles and sufferings because they find it difficult to give them out. [9]
- There--there it is coming on me again: a blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, a buff trip slip for a--" Thus murmuring faint and fainter, my friend sank into a peaceful trance and forgot his sufferings in a blessed respite. [5]
- Higbie and I cleared out on a new mining excitement the next morning, glad to get away from the scene of our sufferings, and after a month or two of hardship and disappointment, returned to Esmeralda once more. [5]
- Selene's sufferings were certainly less than she had pictured them; she did not wish to be nursed by any one besides dame Hannah. [10]
- One thing is certain--from that date the most painful of my sufferings originated. [10]
- But it appears, by subsequent proceedings, that they wished to fasten upon him the charge of embezzlement, the responsibility of the sufferings of the colony, and to mulct him in fines. [4]
- They were commanded, as they had it in their power, to do good to the inhabitants of the earth, and, forgetting their sufferings in procuring the wampum, to give all things with a liberal hand. [5]
- Archias learned this as the steward of his nephew's property, and when to do good he made new demands upon him, he gladly fulfilled them; only he constantly admonished the blind man to think of his own severe sufferings and his cure. [10]
- On the 30th April, 1756, he had also been presented by the Assembly of Virginia with 300 pounds, in consideration of his services to the country and his sufferings in his confinement as a hostage in Quebec. [11]
- He would stay any man or woman who would tarry, to tell of all his sufferings, and of what he endured in mind and body. [10]
- Notwithstanding his sufferings and the obstacles they placed in his path, he continued his wonderful intellectual activity until the end. [10]
- Huck Finn's wealth and the fact that he was now under the Widow Douglas' protection introduced him into society--no, dragged him into it, hurled him into it--and his sufferings were almost more than he could bear. [5]
- Another, worn out and starving, gave up by and by, and laid down to die, but after two or three weeks of incredible hardships, the third reached the settlements of California exhausted, sick, and his mind deranged by his sufferings. [5]
- The death, sufferings, and last days of Prince Andrew had often occupied Pierre's thoughts and now recurred to him with fresh vividness. [2]
- If only for an hour they could be his subjects, he would make them rue the sufferings by which they spoiled his existence. [10]
- Sport could only allay, it could not banish our sufferings. [11]
- He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld. [2]
- He says nothing about his sufferings. [2]
- To sit in a lonely room--the clock ticking loud through a still house--and have open before the mind's eye the record of the last year, with its shocks, sufferings, losses--is a trial. [14]
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