Lamb had no long illness then, and Field was then in Gibraltar, where he was Chief-Justice.
He says that Mary Lamb has recovered from a long illness and is pretty well resigned to John Lamb's death.
My head, though externally correct, has had a severe concussion in my long illness, and the very idea of an engagement hanging over for a day or two, forbids my rest; and I get up miserable.
Lamb's long illnesswas in 1825, when Coleridge's Thursday evenings at Highgate were regular.
The attack--a flux de ventre--which carried her off only lasted nine days, but she was enfeebled by long illness.
The fine old man was in his seventy-third year, and had been tenderly nursed all through a long illness by his wife.
I have a vivid recollection of my long illness in Park Street, and of the miserable confinement in London.
During my mother's long illness at Pau, I naturally thought of nothing, and saw scarcely any one, but her.
It was just after my long illness, when I was laid by for six months.
A good old gentleman, who is just recovering from a long illness, that almost carried him off.
She knew of your arrival here, but, as she is still suffering from the effects of a long illness, she was not able to come herself to-day, and has sent me to fetch you to her.
I have almost recovered from the very compromised state in which my long illness of last year left me, but not absolutely and wholly.
The worthy man recognized me, and seeing his astonishment at the change in my appearance I told him I was recovering from a long illness, and then asked after his wife.
Having recently recovered from a long illness (whence the necessity of a Southern voyage) I had no desire to meet your angry relatives, and I have yet to learn how to gauge a young lady's personality by mail.
Then having asked after the health of my two maiden aunts, with whom he lived--as if I cared whether they were sick or well; they never had bothered about me when I was at the worst of my long illness!
Physically I was still, with my long illness behind me, no match for my adversary.
It was a long illness; a family gets used to a long illness, and after a while accepts it as the natural course of events.
A long illness ending so has often the effect of blotting out altogether the wrongs and bitternesses of many troubled years.
She was very tranquil, resting as people rest after a long illness, in a sort of convalescence of the heart.
Creley died June 25, at his home after a long illness.
Vesper of B company died after a long illness, with gastritis and malaria.
My memory flew back to a long illness that I had suffered from, as a child, when my little cradle-couch was placed by my mother's bedside, and she used to sit by me in the dull evenings and hush me to sleep.
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