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Example sentences for "sickness"

Lexicographically close words:
sickles; sicklied; sickliness; sickly; sicknes; sicknesse; sicknesses; sickroom; sicles; siclike
  1. For pain and sorrow, persecution and hardships, affliction and destitution, sickness and death are but the means, by which alone the noblest virtues could be developed.

  2. Sickness and sorrow, trouble and death, are dispensations that level everything.

  3. He was aware that this sickness was providential.

  4. They endured Tana as they endured ill weather and sickness of the body and the estimable Will of God--as they endured all things, even themselves.

  5. There is the subsidising of socially desirable economic operations, such as insurance against sickness or the acquisition of freehold by tenants.

  6. A cold sickness of dread assailed her, and her knees trembled underneath her weight.

  7. A sickness of the soul weighed on her body as though she walked in invisible fetters of lead.

  8. A sickness swirled up in him and a dizziness overtopped it.

  9. As von Herrnung located the baker's house by aid of his recently acquired binoculars, another swirl of sickness took him, and he shuddered and spat bile over the side.

  10. I know that the hour I appointed for our meeting here has long passed; but I have suffered a sickness of many weeks, and when, at evening, I prepared to set forth, my banished infirmities seemed suddenly to return to me again.

  11. Neither the sickness nor the death which she had beheld around her, had possessed an influence powerful enough over the stubborn ferocity which now alone animated her nature, to lure it to mercy or awe it to repentance.

  12. It was sickness hand-in-hand with health; pain marshalled face to face with enjoyment; darkness ranged in monstrous discordance by the very side of light.

  13. The continuance of the session in London was at that time rendered impossible by the pestilential sickness already referred to, which every day increased in severity.

  14. He did not allow himself to be induced to defer his marriage even by the death of his father, or by a pestilential sickness which then prevailed, or by the lack of the desirable preparations in the royal palaces.

  15. There is conclusive evidence to show that women are more often absent from work owing to sickness and other claims upon their time than men.

  16. Börne assures me that renegades who have accepted the new dispensation feel a sort of home-sickness for the synagogue when they but smell Shalet, so that Shalet may be called the Jewish ranz des vaches.

  17. During his sickness he sought a palliative for his pains--in the Bible.

  18. For thirty years past the whole Boccanera family, children, women, and even the most eminent Cardinal himself, had in all cases of sickness been placed in the hands of this prudent practitioner.

  19. But it doesn't matter; we took him with us when we heard that he was dying of hunger and sickness in a cellar.

  20. This was in view of the fact that Bishop Nitschmann, in ordaining Seifert, had empowered him to delegate another member to hold the Communion, baptize, or perform the marriage ceremony in case of his sickness or necessary absence.

  21. There was a great deal of sickness throughout Georgia that summer, and the second company became acclimated through the same distressing process that the first had found so hard to bear.

  22. There was a great deal of sickness among them, and four died, being buried hastily, and without ceremony.

  23. The hospital was set aside especially for plague stricken patients, and everyone infected with this terrible sickness was carried thither.

  24. With what an enthusiasm did he daily introduce descriptions of the splendor of Italy in his lectures, so as to call forth a home-sickness for Rome in the hearts of the young Germans,--they however yawned in his face.

  25. The fruitless negotiations with the people demoralised through sickness began anew.

  26. I decided to observe those species we had quietly, having heard awful accounts of them before leaving England, but to reserve final judgment on them until they had quite recovered from sea-sickness and had had a night ashore.

  27. What the cause of the sickness is, it is hard to say, but it is one of those scourges which is ever with us.

  28. I knew nothing of this at the time, and put her sickness down to drink, but got a doctor to see her.

  29. Dennett; who says "The sleeping sickness though prevalent throughout Kakongo and Loango is most common in the north of Loango and the south of Kakongo, that is north of the river Quillou and among the Mussorongo.

  30. For certainly there are cures, if not known, at any rate believed in, for the sleeping sickness in its own home Kakongo and Loango.

  31. Against it I can only urge that in some districts where I am informed by my medical friends that Filaria perstans is very prevalent, such as Calabar, the Niger, and the Ogowe, sleeping sickness is not prevalent.

  32. James, do you think the boy can be right in regard to sickness and sin being the same?

  33. If that be true, God could not have made me sick, for sickness is not good," said Walter.

  34. I know, James, that it does seem absurd at first thought, yet it seems to me to be just as sensible to punish the wrong person for stealing, as it would be to punish the innocent with sickness because some one else had sinned.

  35. Yes, it has made me free, for it has lifted this cloud of sickness and feebleness from my mind, and I feel perfectly well and strong.

  36. If we admit that the first is the real and was all that was made, whence came all this evil, sin, and sickness into the world, and how did I acquire this material body, and where did all these other material things come from?

  37. Now then, can you in any possible way show me wherein this claim of sickness of yours is good?

  38. What you say about the lie, wife, is plain, but sickness is not a lie or a falsehood, it is only too real.

  39. It has been said that under certain conditions sickness might be good.

  40. At another time as related in Matthew 9:5, Jesus Christ intimated that sin and sickness were one and the same.

  41. Afterwards sickness appeared, and threatened the most serious danger to the expedition -- scurvy and insanity.

  42. I have been told that on former occasions sea-sickness made fearful ravages on board the Fram, but from this trial we also had an easy escape.

  43. During the whole voyage only two deaths occurred from sickness -- one was the case of a bitch that died after giving birth to eight pups -- which might just as easily have caused her death under other conditions.

  44. The city authorities saw at once that something would have to be done if they wished to keep their streets clear of beggars and of invalids, and not invite the spread of sickness by allowing infected persons to wander at large.

  45. He fell ill, or, as Fabyan puts it, feigned sickness and took to his bed, and Cooke assumed the duties of the mayoralty.

  46. With the sickness was associated, as was so often the case, a scarcity of food.

  47. The diagnosis was “nerve fever,” or typhus, the same sickness which had carried off his mother.

  48. The sickness made rapid inroads, though he continued to toy with the operatic scheme of the Count of Gleichen, and carefully corrected the proofs of his Winterreise cycle.

  49. It takes a person dwelling in those remote places of the earth rightly to understand what sickness means in such widely scattered communities.

  50. I dare say that you cannot do much, but every little counts, especially when there is sickness in a house.

  51. Bertha, who began to feel most horribly sick from the swaying, although she had never suffered from train-sickness before.

  52. He reckoned that she was of the most use at this juncture, having had more experience in sickness than Bertha, so he put her in readiness for action first.

  53. The watchful egotism of sickness demands the mind of sickness.

  54. In these last smeltings there was little gold, because many Indians died in consequence of sickness caused by the tempest as well as from want of food .

  55. Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science.

  56. Disease is a thing of thought manifested on the body; and fear is the procurator of the thought which causes sickness and suffering.

  57. I never heard the voice of that patient again; in fact, after a short time we had no cases of sickness on board.

  58. But while they talked not one word was said upon the subject of sickness or medicine.

  59. He seemed a man considerably past middle age and broken down with sickness or sorrow.

  60. It was in fact a fight on the land, for they ranged so close that they almost touched each other, and the gallant Bahuchet preserved himself from sea-sickness at the expense of all their lives.

  61. The English had lost many men from sickness during the siege.

  62. Sickness is the negative and opposite of health: without sickness we should not be aware what health was.

  63. There is no sickness in inorganic nature; yet, even there, contrast is the essence of existence.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sickness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.