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Example sentences for "failing health"

  • Its articles on the emperor's failing health (which he insisted upon reading) were cruel in the extreme.

  • In the emperor's last days of failing health he loved to keep Fleury beside him; but the empress was jealous of her husband's friend, and used her influence to have him honorably exiled to St. Petersburg as French ambassador.

  • He also continued to hold the office of superintendent of both roads until the year 1854, when he insisted on being relieved in consequence of failing health, caused by the arduous labors which seemed unavoidably to devolve upon him.

  • Failing health, too, probably weakened the self-reliance which a man who had satisfactorily performed the duties of Chief of the Staff in the Crimea must at one time have possessed.

  • A few ably written chapters were issued, when he was forced to relinquish the work in consequence of failing health.

  • In later years of his life he felt compelled by failing health to relinquish the work of the ministry, and in 1866 departed this life in Louisville, Ky.

  • His labors were blessed with excellent results, but his course was impeded by failing health.

  • On account of failing health, Thompson made a visit to Europe, where he spent several years, contributing from time to time to Blackwood's Magazine and other English periodicals.

  • On the breaking out of hostilities, he became a member of Governor Pickens's staff, and was stationed for a time in Fort Sumter; but after a brief service he was forced to resign on account of failing health.

  • With uncomplaining fortitude he met the hardships of poverty and bore the increasing ills of failing health.

  • In the three Hausa kingdoms of Gobir, Katsina, and Daura, in Northern Nigeria, as soon as a king showed signs of failing health or growing infirmity, an official who bore the title of Killer of the Elephant appeared and throttled him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chemical combination; embassy closed; even until; failing health; food needs; her duty; learned from; life freely; man whose name was; north and; officio members; penny post; planted early; public funds; slave owner; small clump; small species; special arrangement; strong current; such wise; that class; then very