All our ills appear to be caused by minute insects that get inside of us, demoralize our system of government and inaugurate a reign of anarchy.
I succeeded in demonstrating before the end of the tenting season that osculation, when practiced with reasonable discretion and unfaltering industry, is an infallible antidote for at least half the ills that human flesh is heir to.
Shall I be pardoned for having dwelt so long on this history of the mental and corporeal ills of my childhood?
Besides his having his quantum of the ills that flesh is subject to, he has some peculiar to himself, and rather extraordinary.
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight and tears on bitterness.
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Soon by another thought am I annoyed-- If I of life despair, I forfeit too The good I hope for in beholding you; By ills so varying is my peace destroyed.
As in sleep, Ills which awake perpetually we weep, Fraught with the grief that haunts the soul, remain, And print their shadowy species on the brain.
The timid it concerns to ask their way, And fear what foe in caves and swamps can stray, To make no step until the event is known, And ills to come as evils past bemoan.
Northerners were to her what the Philistines were to the ancient Hebrews, the hereditary foes from which she had suffered the chief ills of her life.
His heart misgave him as he heard his wife bound up and bolt the door after him, but he was a philosopher who knew the value of time in remedying many of the ills of life.
Not at me, not at all, but because he thought his laughter might probably delude the devil who was president over the ills of that particular portion of human anatomy.
The Chinese race has the finest power in the world to withstand with fortitude the ills of life and the miseries which follow inability to procure the wherewithal to live.
But help is nearer than we know For ills of every name: Ragged enough to scare the crow, But with a heart to pity woe, A quick-eyed urchin came.
What matter that my sorrows rest On ills which men despise!
All ills of life shall melt away As melts a cureless woe, When, by the dawning of the day Surprised, the dream must go.
The small farm unit, usually from five to twenty-five acres, brings neighbors close together, abolishing loneliness and most of the social ills of farm life in the East.
This open-air craze is the cause of most of the ills of life.
Mr Morgan was unaccustomed to sleeping with his window open to the treacherousills of the night air; Prudence was unaccustomed to sleep with them closed.
The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearingills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice.
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' theills o' life victorious.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.
A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
Lott Cary realized from the beginning of the colony that a missionary in Africa ought to be more than a corrector of moral ills and a "doctor" of divinity; he would be fortunate indeed if he could mend human bodies.
Among the other ills which attend folly is this: it is always beginning to live.
He simply takes these pains andills as under the circumstances the best means of furthering the ends he has at heart.
We fear the fever and other ills that hide in the bush more than we fear to fail in God's service.
It must be very depressing to have to associate with bodies and their ills all the time," she ventured one day when her father seemed more than usually preoccupied.
But the "ills and accidents" never strike at random.
He glides lightly over the absurd pretence that virtue has never entailed suffering, and dwells upon the second half of his proposition,--his admission that virtuous and wicked are equally exposed to "ills and accidents.
Yet am not I the first mistaken maid, By love of courts to num'rous ills betrayed.
He next descends to the subsidiary proposition that "no man is unhappy through virtue," which means that the disasters of the virtuous are never the consequences of their virtue; they are the "ills and accidents that chance to all.
But fools the good alone unhappy call, For illsor accidents that chance to all.
In like manner men of faith behold the reality of religion manifestly revealed in these heavenly teachings, and clearly and conclusively prove them to be the real and true remedy for the ills and infirmities of all mankind.
Should these sublime teachings be diffused, mankind shall be freed from all perils, from all chronic illsand sicknesses.
So we see at this day, whatever evils are abroad, hope never entirely leaves us; and while we have THAT, no amount of other ills can make us completely wretched.
A hen might as well try on populous Broadway to hatch out a feathery group as for a man to successfully brood over his ills in lively society.
All these medicines have an important mission, but how much better would it be to avoid the ills than to spend one's time in trying to cure them!
He has built a beautiful little chapel, a large school, and a dispensary in connection with his house, where he and his wife are occupied every morning treating the minor ills of the natives, Christian and heathen alike.
In Ta-li Fu we saw Mr. Hanna and his wife dispensing medicines and treating the minor ills of patients waiting by the dozen, the fees received being not enough to pay for the cost of the medicines.
God send you find not such an end To ills however sharp and huge!
Your wisdom, which sufficed to guide the year And tame the seasons in their mad career, When set to higher purposes has failed me And added anguish to the ills that ailed me.
If humanills could be healed by the use of logic, there would long since have been no unhappiness left in the world.
Henceforth nothing remained but to watch his wife jealously, and suffer his ills with the best heart he could.
The fever-haunted jungles have no terrors for these huge creatures, which seemingly enjoy entire immunity from all the ills attendant upon such surroundings.
The Singhalese believe that all ills in life are inflicted as punishment, and that evil spirits are the agents of Providence to apply the same.
When cancer, tubercle, insanity, and all the attendant ills of alcoholism and of riotous living have infected every family in the land, our far-seeing lawgivers may begin to realise the necessity for some restriction of this kind.
Bodily ills and accidents presumably come from the same divine agency, yet no one thinks it sinful to seek to remedy these with the means science has provided for the purpose.
Floy leaned against the window-frame, hands clasped and eyes drinking in eagerly all the glory and beauty of the scene, loneliness, bereavement, all earthly illsforgotten for the moment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
