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Example sentences for "sick person"

  • Never speak to a sick person suddenly; but, at the same time, do not keep his expectation on the tiptoe.

  • With regard to the health of houses where there is a sick person, it often happens that the sick room is made a ventilating shaft for the rest of the house.

  • If there is some matter which must be read to a sick person, do it slowly.

  • Always sit down when a sick person is talking business to you, show no signs of hurry, give complete attention and full consideration if your advice is wanted, and go away the moment the subject is ended.

  • These are repeated, accompanied by appropriate ceremonies, when the disease from which some sick person is suffering has been traced to an encounter with the hantu pemburu.

  • Now he that has charge of a sick person, must not cease to take care of him, even if he be fractious or contemptuous, because then the danger is greater, as in the case of madmen.

  • A person in health has a greater chance to become sick, than a sick person has to get well, in an hospital or infirmary where cleanliness is neglected.

  • Many affirm that they have found the mangkukulam who had bewitched the sick person dead on different occasions after such practices had been finished.

  • When they visit a sick person, they have the custom of placing copper rings on their wrists or on their legs, in order that the soul which they call limocod may not leave.

  • That physician after having examined the sick person carefully, and proved that there really was a swelling, asked for a bit of wax, of which he made a small figure of human shape.

  • Describe a bedstead and mattress suitable for a sick person's use, and tell why they are to be preferred.

  • During weakness and pain, irritability and unreasonableness are as characteristic as other symptoms, and it is as foolish to demand a normal mental state from a sick person as it would be to demand a normal temperature.

  • Obviously, a sick person, since his strength is already depleted, needs not only to have his resistance increased in all possible ways, but also to have all his remaining strength conserved by eliminating every unnecessary tax upon it.

  • In every household at least one bed suitable for a sick person should be available in case of need.

  • And elsewhere he teacheth,(245) that to tend a sick person ready to die is a greater duty than the hearing of the word.

  • Our Blessed Father expressed as follows his feelings of respect and honour towards a sick person to whom he was writing.

  • One day he was visiting a sick person who, in the midst of intense suffering, not only showed great patience in all her words and actions, but plainly had the virtue deeply rooted in her heart.

  • A sick person who is really anxious to recover his health takes without hesitation the remedies prescribed by the physician, however sharp, bitter, and painful they may be.

  • A sick person does so enjoy hearing good news:--for instance, of a love and courtship, while in progress to a good ending.

  • It freshens up a sick person's whole mental atmosphere to see "the baby.

  • How little does any one in good health fancy him or even herself into the life of a sick person.

  • The bed for a sick person is frequently made with a rubber sheet and a draw sheet.

  • Ventilating and Lighting the Room The room of a sick person should be so situated that it will get plenty of sunlight and be easily aired.

  • How to make a sick person comfortable in bed, changing position, etc.

  • How to prepare for and help a sick person in taking a bath.

  • Consequently, all just encouragement of the restoration to health should be given to a sick person.

  • When we have been visiting or attending on a sick person, it is judicious to change the apparel worn in the sick-room, and also give the skin a thorough bathing.

  • Before visiting a sick person it is judicious to take a moderate amount of nutritious food.

  • When we are attending a sick person a current of air that has passed over the patient should be avoided.

  • Now that her voice had come, it was a little thin whisper, like the voice of a sick person.

  • Backwards and forwards it travelled, as gently as though she were a sick person.

  • Examples: Balbus fears he may be guilty of murder, because he left a sick person for a moment and the latter unexpectedly died in his absence (scrupulous conscience).

  • A sick person, until he reaches that happy stage of convalescence when it is an amusement to him, should never be allowed to hear the slightest discussion on the subject of his nourishment.

  • I am always guided in a great degree about nourishment by the instincts of my patient, and I never force stimulants, or anything equally distasteful on a sick person who is at all reasonable upon such matters.

  • Leaving the church, she went to visit a sick person in the village.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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