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Example sentences for "had suffered"

  • When I add that he had suffered from a long and complicated illness, and that his whole nervous system was utterly deranged, I have told you all I really know of the physical condition of my dead-alive patient at the Two Robins Inn.

  • I had really no such fear; it was my excuse to my friend for a return of that unaccountable depression under which I had suffered at Fondi.

  • If he had been turned out into a wilderness in a thunder-storm it would have been a relief after what he had suffered in the bedroom of the inn.

  • I need not say that I hastened to remove all traces of the vile prison where I had suffered so much.

  • I had suffered from a kind of rash, which as it came off had left some red spots on my arms, and occasionally caused me some irritation.

  • Chabrillane, it seemed, after all that he had suffered, was not even to be allowed to make a good exit.

  • It was only that it would seem like a proper consummation of all the evil that he had suffered directly or indirectly through this Andre-Louis Moreau that he should perish ignobly by his hand.

  • I deserved some reward (he was kind enough to say) for the service I had done him, and some compensation (he was so obliging as to add) for what I had suffered.

  • He had suffered so much to bring the body safe across the plains, he fell down insensible on his entrance here.

  • The reply had the only sternness of contempt that he had suffered himself to show.

  • My thoughts went back to the night, a few weeks before, when I had suffered a similar paroxysm of grief over Dicky's evident interest in the girl.

  • Surely I had suffered enough to welcome Dicky's return at any time.

  • I had suffered, how I had suffered at Dicky's hands!

  • I had suffered because of the rumors I had heard concerning this woman's regard for Dicky.

  • All, therefore, that remained in Syracuse, had to serve under a tyrant, who at the best was of an ungentle nature, and exasperated now to a degree of savageness by the late misfortunes and calamities he had suffered.

  • For he carried a great treasure with him, out of which he had suffered them to take cups, bowls, and other vessels of silver and gold, to the value of fifty talents.

  • Such was Mr. Jubber's ingenious contrivance for turning to good pecuniary account the ignominious defeat which he had suffered at the hands of Dr.

  • And every one who heard of my return came and questioned me of my adventures and of foreign countries, and I related to them all that had befallen me, and the much I had suffered, whereat they wondered and gave me joy of my safe return.

  • And as I went off with them I told them my whole story, how I had suffered hardships at sea and the fashion of my reaching the valley.

  • This affront, after all I had suffered, I was forced to pocket; but I could not understand what the admiral could mean, when he said that people went to sea "to learn manners.

  • The interlude was filled up with the sweetest kisses from the rosiest of lips; and I was in this half hour rewarded for all I had suffered since I had sailed from England in the diabolical brig for Barbadoes.

  • Gorgo's eyes fell; but presently she looked up again and said: "You do not know what that poor soul had suffered.

  • The truth is, I was not free from the consciousness that I had suffered some of the grandiloquent to appear in my manner while speaking the sentence which had provoked the ridicule of my uncle.

  • I had not gone through that scene willingly; I had suffered quite as many pangs as himself.

  • He had suffered in his person, and he had suffered in his purse; his dignity too had been insulted, and that went for something; for dignity is always more irascible the more petty the potentate.

  • His robe of state hung in ribbands from his back, and but ill concealed the ravages he had suffered in the rear.

  • The poor little royal corpse was carried from the room into that where he had suffered so long,--where for two years he had never ceased to suffer.

  • I did not hear of this until the morning after he had suffered, and I think I should have sunk under my despair if this honourable testimony had not given me some consolation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had already; had arrived; had become; had come; had ever been before; had happened; had hitherto; had killed; had known; had long; had looked; had lost; had never; had never seen before; had picked; had recourse; had ridden; had risen from the; had something; had taken; had time; had turned; had you; her right; highly civilized; sometimes slightly