Another objection raised by those who are afflicted with the habit of gluttony is the lack of time permitted by their business occupation.
Some over-thrifty housekeepers, nevertheless, tear down nests from their piazzas, because the poor little phoebes are so afflicted with lice that they are considered objectionable neighbours.
A more hopeless andafflicted looking man you could not easily find.
Tradition speaks of him as a successful, benignant, and charitable parish priest, giving consolation to the afflicted and to the sick.
This afflicted her very much, as I saw, for she never complained, and she used to try so sweetly to oblige him and to bring him into a good humour, that my heart has often ached to see it.
This seemed a sensible suggestion, and the two men turned to the afflicted father to learn what he thought of it.
No wonder the afflicted woman uttered a half-suppressed scream when she picked up what seemed a memento of her dead child.
He was a small man and middle-aged, and as he spoke he trembled with a continual agitation of body as though he were afflicted with ague.
The eye was no longer gladdened as before with the sight of green meadows and yellowing harvests, but rather afflicted by the aspect of briers and thistles, which clustered everywhere.
Middleton thus afflicted threw up his arms, he shunned books, shunned speech, and resembled a castaway on the ocean, with nothing between himself and his calamity.
Middleton and his daughter, afflicted him with visions of the physical contrast which would be sharply perceptible to her this morning of his Laetitia beside Clara.
Recollecting his remarks, her mind wasafflicted by the "something illogical" in him that we readily discover when our natures are no longer running free, and then at once we yearn for a disputation.
To the Duke of Bedford he said, "Comfort my dear wife--the mostafflicted creature living.
Besides the troubles related, the kingdom during this reign was afflicted by a severe famine, which lasted for several years.
Card games were invented towards the end of the fourteenth century by Jacquemin Gringonneur, in Paris, to amuse the melancholy hours of the mentally afflicted Charles VI.
Ordericus Vitalis, in speaking of him, says, "He was afflicted by the just judgment of God.
They represented that it was the stronghold of one of the most ferocious monsters who in those fearful times spread horror through afflicted France.
Christ's church is an hospital of sick, wounded, and afflicted people; even as when he was in the world, the afflicted and distressed set the highest price upon Jesus Christ.
And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant?
To be truly sensible of sin is to sorrow for displeasing of God; to be afflicted that he is displeased by us more than that he is displeased with us.
Thus was my soul at this time, and, as I then did think, for ever, set at liberty from being again afflicted with my former guilt and amazement.
Yea, shall Christ, that can be eternally happy without thee, be more afflicted at the thoughts of the loss of thy soul, than thyself, who art certainly eternally miserable if thou neglectest to come to him.
This order deeply afflicted Don Pedro, but he resolved to obey his master, and demanded absolution.
By the seventh reel even her high-minded husband has become afflicted with the taint, and is stopping and working his face.
They are no longer afflicted with a shortage of paper, but they are still cramped by a dearth of names for their afternoon editions.
Footnote 20: Born in Philadelphia; a Methodist divine, long afflicted with blindness; but widely popular as a preacher and lecturer.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
It has been stated on good authority that physicians who make a specialty of certain diseases are apt to be afflicted with what they have especially fitted themselves to cure.
But it failed to add that "the judge instructed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant," remarking that "under the constitution and laws of Iowa it is no crime for a person to pray for his afflicted neighbor.
Origen also says, that when any part of the body was afflicted with disease, they invoked the demon to whom it was supposed to belong, in order to obtain a cure.
In two respects, all the accounts concerning him agree--that he had traveled much, and that he was afflicted with blindness.
The personafflicted was harboring these germs in his nose and throat, and his resistance was weakened by wetting his feet.
Practically everyone at the position suffered a little from gas, some in one way and some in another, but, since they were afflicted in no violent way, they stuck to their work, disregarding minor discomforts.
Ellen, you forget that I am a living witness of it, and an afflicted one; but proceed.
A sad piece of news has come to our ears," ran the first paragraph, "a piece of news which has afflicted all the foreign colony of Paris, and especially the Hungarians.
Mother of the unfortunate, consolation of afflicted souls!
The reader will remember that during all this time I knew nothing of the experience of James Martin with this afflicted trio, but had been compelled to grope my way blindly.
I wasafflicted and tossed with tempest, but a sweet promise followed.
With prayer we left this house of mourning, with a request for the afflicted brother to call at head-quarters for the rations I should report for the six in his family.
But this bereavement seemed impelling me to return to myafflicted children.
Then they knew that divine justice thus had afflicted her, and that the two blacks were demons.
Being by that time an aged gentleman, and also being much afflicted with rheumatism, the thought of taking a walk of near to three miles barefoot was most distasteful to him.
Quizquiz was much afflicted by this loss, and knew not well what to do or how to conduct himself.
Most people who have occasion to go there are liable to be afflicted with diseases of the eyes.
On finding, therefore, the ill success of that adventure, and that his men were afflicted with diseases of the liver from the unhealthy nature of the country, Camargo had come to Villa Rica for assistance.
It is not to be expressed how much this news afflicted us all.
The reflections which I have made in my funeral sermon on my honoured friend, and in the dedication of it to his worthy and most afflicted lady, supersede many things which might otherwise have properly been added here.
