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Example sentences for "fell sick"

  • John Fletcher, invited to goe with a knight into Norfolke or Suffolke in the plague-time 1625, stayd but to make himselfe a suite of cloathes; fell sick of the plague, and dyed.

  • He stayed but to make himselfe a suite of cloathes, and while it was makeing, fell sick of the plague and dyed[946].

  • But the time now approaching that the Lord was about to accomplish the desire of his servant, he fell sick, and was cast into a high fever for several days.

  • At this time the wife of one of my neighbours, with whom I had contrasted a very strict friendship, fell sick, and died.

  • Francesco, for Francesco de' Bacci, the elder, where he alone did the vaulting and half the tympanum, he fell sick of a chest affection.

  • At last he fell sick of a cruel abscess, and after lingering for many months he died at the age of fifty-five, and was honourably buried by the monks in the chapter-house of their monastery as his virtues demanded.

  • The twelfth and last represents the bishop being carried by his men from Montenero, where he fell sick, to Massa, and thence, after his death, to Arezzo.

  • It had occurred to him to do so the second night after he fell sick, being in perfect memory lying in his bed broad awake, but with puppets dancing around him.

  • After this he took up his abode in a cave near the Jordan, where he passed other five years in great austerity, till he fell sick, when a complication of disorders obliged him to leave that place and return to Jerusalem.

  • Worn out at last by ten years' hard service in his hospital, he fell sick.

  • But he fell sick, and the maiden ministered to him; and we are told that by her prayers and the bright example of her virtues, the Druid became a Christian, and a fervent penitent.

  • When he fell sick he at once sent for Willibrord, and telling him how much he feared to die on account of his sins, he besought him, if he had any relics of the good King Oswald, to apply them for his benefit.

  • But he fell sick by the way, and died with them in the wilderness.

  • He went on the concerns of his House to Antwerp, where he fell sick, and having been in a fever for nearly eight days he fell asleep in the Lord, and was buried there in the Convent of the Sisters of our Order.

  • There was a north wind that was very cold at night, but by day turbulent and dry, and many were chilled thereby and fell sick.

  • So also before the death of Brother Theodoric of Kleef, once the Prior of our House, the like thing happened two days before he fell sick.

  • This man, after a long and godly life, fell sick, of the sickness whereof he died.

  • Once when he broke his leg as he came home drunk from the ale-house; and another time when he fell sick, and thought he should die.

  • His second son, Hubert, fell sick, and he removed him to one of the upper rooms which he had set aside as an hospital, and attended upon him himself.

  • He accompanied me to London, but quitted me when I fell sick, and took refuge with a farmer named Wingfield, residing near Kensal Green.

  • My lover was true to his vow; and instead of deploring their fate, lived with me and three other women in mirth and revelry till yesterday, when the three women died, and he fell sick.

  • So many fatigues at the length overwhelmed nature, and he fell sick himself of a fever, so violent, and so malignant, that he was blooded seven times in a little space, and was three days in a delirium.

  • Five or six passengers, who had set sail from Malacca towards China, in the ship of Benedict Coeglio, fell sick, even to the point of death.

  • As for Bobadilla, he was no sooner come to Rome, than he fell sick of a continued fever; and it may be said, that his distemper was the hand of heaven, which had ordained another in his stead for the mission of the Indies.

  • At last he fell sick of a dropsy at his house at Tibur.

  • When he fell sick, the pious sisters sent to inform Christ, who was then absent in Galilee.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acute cases; fell asleep; fell dead; fell down; fell downe; fell from; fell into; fell short; fell silent; fellow citizens; fellow countrymen; fellow creature; fellow prisoners; fellow soldiers; fine appearance; general staff; good share; leave school; peace footing; please the; poor fool; separate room; though from; thousand sighs; well adapted; whole force