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Example sentences for "sick child"

  • Ought a sick child to be roused from his sleep to give him physic, when it is time for him to take it?

  • A sick child must not be stuffed with much food at a time.

  • Explain that a mother can sit up night and day, day and night, with a sick child!

  • A sick child--and worn out by attendance on her night and day.

  • It's always a sick child, or some other excuse, with the whole of you.

  • Quickly rising, her first glance was toward her sick child.

  • The first smile of a sick child is electrifying.

  • The poor woman was wetting the sick child's lips from a cup of water that stood by her; and she took no notice of Biddy's remark.

  • Mrs. Sackville and the children followed Biddy to a tree which stood a little above the encampment of the Irish, where a woman was sitting on a log with a sick child in her arms, and a boy of five or six beside her.

  • Asclepiodorus is angry--not with you, for he knows from Imhotep that you are taking care of a sick child--but with Irene.

  • The goddess Klea--I call her so as being sister to a Hebe--had to nurse a sick child, and if I wanted to see her I might go in and find her.

  • I have a sick child, and to look after him I went into my room several times; but only for a few minutes at a time-still, the gate stands open, all is quiet in Memphis now.

  • Under no circumstances argue with or scold a sick child.

  • People trying to sleep here; a sick child up stairs.

  • We have got a sick child," replied Mrs. Ursury, "and we are doctoring it.

  • In a few moments she heard her father saying, in a voice as if speaking to a sick child, 'Yes, I promise you, my dear.

  • She is going over to see Marsha's sick child.

  • Gone to see Marsha's sick child," said Elena, clinging to little Daria with one hand, and gazing at Volodia with eyes full of terror.

  • Often, though she was so wearied with her incessant stitching, she would carry in her hand a flower from the plants that grew in her latticed window to a neighbour's sick child.

  • You can give me the means of purchasing medicine for my sick child," she replied.

  • With my sick child in my arms I wandered, I knew not where, until I found she had fainted.

  • A sick child is a contradiction of ideas, like a cold summer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced guard; also came; bring before; definite purpose; distinguished family; false idea; good condition; good space; gray eyes; great astonishment; great magician; other agencies; passed upon; pleasant place; she liked; sick child; sick headache; sick leave; sick person; sick room; sickly smile; then apply; thinking about; turns away; under what; when first