Then, set the Pope to shaking the conscience of the Sick Man, to disturb his mind, and terrify his soul.
The Sick Man, still more frightened than he is now at having allowed the destruction of Poland, will shrink from the clamors, reproaches, threats, and violent ruptures that he has occasioned.
The sick man heard this remark, so did the man at the wheel, and from that moment Walford was a marked man.
I do not know how it was, but when I looked down over the edge, I turned giddy and sickall in a moment, and then I felt that I must fling myself down the precipice.
Insomuch as I could not advise the sick man when alive, I being absent, what concerns my conscience I shall now perform, late though it be.
Almost sick at heart, and with trembling hands pretty Flo Temple managed to raise the field glasses she had with her.
When the coffee was done Fred came out and secured a cup of it for the sick man; while Sarah sat down at the kitchen table to drink her portion.
I'd be half sick if I didn't get a chance to see who they are," ventured little Semi-Colon.
And many times did the girl speak of that dreadful day when her calls from the bottom of the well reached the ears of the cross-country runners, bringing aid to herself and her sick parent.
And Doctor Temple reported that not only would Sarah escape any ill results from her experience in the cold waters of the well, but the sick man was going to come around, in time, all right.
Just as he had expected, Flo was immediately concerned about the family, and asked numerous questions while they were waiting for the genial old doctor to come in at noon from his morning round of sick calls.
After the experience through which he had recently passed, the sick man must almost believe he was losing his senses, to see two lads in running costume burst in upon him.
Fred went into the other room about that time; for hearing voices, he imagined the girl must have put on some dry clothes hurriedly, and once more descended to be with her sick father.
He was afraid of striking the one who must be clinging to the rope below, undoubtedly chilled to the bone, and sick with fear.
Then the sick man had not passed away, as his daughter seemed to have feared; for while one of the voices was undoubtedly that of the girl, the other belonged to a man.
He'd listen and listen to me, but at last I suppose he got sick of it.
In the first place because you are all females, and I am sick of female society.
Several times that morning he went up to the plank bed where his sick mother was lying on a mattress as thin as a pancake, with some sort of bundle under her head for a pillow.
These women were the bride's mother, her elder sister, abandoning for the moment the sick children, and her three aunts, even the one with a broken rib dragged herself in.
After ordering all the Indians out of the wigwam, Winslow let in some fresh air, cooled the sick Indian's hot brow and hands with clean water, and gave him some medicine.
Here his crew suffered so much from the cold climate that, in their anger against their captain, they put him, his son, and seven sick men in a boat, and cut them adrift.
Walking through the woods, driving their cattle before them, and carrying poor sick Mrs. Hooker on a litter, these colonists came to settle on the banks of the Connecticut, where they founded Hartford.
Luckily for him, some of Washington's friends came back in time to prevent his leaving his sick room.
So this sickman was nursed by a nun, young and fairly pretty, but, above all, skilful.
A long course of afternoon calls, with refreshments at clubs in the intervals, is not such good training as the care of the sick in all weathers for sprinting over a course laid at ninety degrees.
She climbed on wearily, for the bottle was swinging again, and in her ears there came unbidden the nursery refrain that she used to sing to the little sick children in the hospital at Quebec: "This is the cow with the crumpled horn.
One day a hot sickness touched him with its finger, and he became no more than a sick man alone among his possessions, the sport of dreams and devils and shadows, sometimes a log and sometimes a lunatic crying in delirium.
A stranger," answered the chaplain, "just come from the sick chamber of the noble Damian Lacy, waits here even now to have speech of my Lord Constable.
Go hence, and tell your master I will see him within the space of an hour, during which time I am delayed by the necessity of attending a sick relation.
I was sick of it there, and I vowed I would pull up stakes and start somewhere by myself.
I assure you I didn't do it, Julie; it was that man who got sick and left us.
Five minutes later Bud Larkin, sick at heart that this skeleton of the past had risen up to confront him in his new life, made his way around the ranch house to the front entrance.
Why do the arms become small and slender in some diseases, as in mad men, and such as are sick of the dropsy?
Why do the tongues of such as are sick of agues judge all things bitter?
Instead of dramatically delivering my despatches, I was to lie on a sick bed.
Mine reads a paper she gets at the manor, and then she tells me as something wonderful, one day, that some farmer's lass has turned mason, and the next that an old woman has set upon and beaten her sick husband.
The Baroness would always be taken sick when she could not have her own way, but that kind of ailment did not last long as a rule.
Beyond these, in the open, apparatus for mechanical gymnastics, where sick persons are being treated on machines resembling instruments of torture.
There is a smell as of poisonous wall-paper, and one feels sick the moment one enters.
And he has let me lie sick without calling in a physician.
That depends--mainly on my cousin, to be frank: I suspect he'll soon get sick of having a third person in the house.
You would be sick to death of her in six weeks--and haven't you had enough of giving hostages to Fortune?
Besides, I'm sick to death of the local gang and Lawrence will be a change.
At all events it lasted till half past nine, when the sick man was honestly tired and the lines of no fictitious pain were drawn deep about his mouth and eyes.
I was sea-sick for five days, and bored beyond words the rest of the way over.
Six months before I encountered her in Paris, she had fallen sick from overwork, and had come to relatives in Southern Prance to regain her strength.
Quite suddenly a vision of my childhood came back to me, of the time I had been sick at Mary Dutton's, when she had taken me into the warm comfort of her bed.
If I go home this summer," I blurted out, "I'll besick again.
And six dollars a week is very little for a family of five, especially when one is sick and another must always have fresh clean linen collars and cuffs.
It was while you were sick that the girls--took a dislike to me.
Even Emma Lauriston was at home sickwith a sore throat.
There were soldiers' widows and orphans, the sick and the wounded who were sent home to make room for newer cases.
By thus amusing the healthy child longing for a romp, she preserved quiet by the bedside of the sick one, whom an apothecary, brought all the way from Caerphilly, pronounced 'in a critical state.
Then she had a fairly good temper and persuasive ways that made her a capital nurse for a sickchild with a resolute will.
If a labourer's wife or child fell sick he helped them from his own stores or pocket; and his men worked all the better for his thoughtful kindness.
The Beguines wear the old Flemish head-dress and a dark costume, and are conspicuous for their kindness among the poor and their sick nursing.
On prisoners of war and sick and wounded, see WAR.
The lost, they shall sit by my fires, and the fearful ones shall seek, and the sick shall abide.
The letter was to tell a factor that his sick child in the hospital at Quebec was well," the governor responded quietly.
The care of at least one-half of his sickand wounded had fallen to Tyson's charge.
He was sick with disgust, and consumed with the desire to get out of it all, to cut Drayton Parva for good.
I will tell you presently; be not in such haste," said the sick man.
And father and brother tended by the sick girl's bedside as they would have done that of an infant.
At the foot of the bed where the wounded soldier lay, stood a boy with a quivering lip and swimming eye, as he heard the sick man moan in his uneasy sleep.
It will give me great pleasure to keep the secret, and to improve the purse solely for the sick man's individual benefit," was the reply.
Ay, sister, sick at heart," said the boy, with a deep drawn sigh.
The girl bent over his couch to hear the words, and the surgeon saw a tear drop upon the sick man's hand from the girl's eyes as she stood there!
But we must leave the sick man with himself for a while, and go elsewhere.
I've seen sicker men live, and I've seen those who seemed less sick die.
But let us look once more into the sick room we so lately left, where the wounded soldier lies suffering from his wounds.
Too weak to argue or even to talk at all, the sick man drank as he was desired, and half closed his eyes again, as if he thought by thus doing he might once more bring back the sweet vision which had just gladdened his feeble senses.
The recognition between them was cordial and honest, while the new lieutenant-general told him of General Harero's severe illness, and expressed a wish for him to immediately attend the sick man.
The sick man drew himself up with an expression of lively interest.
Softly gliding to the window, she let down the curtain, and the usual subdued twilight again ruled in the sick chamber.
The sick man smiled, but there lay a sort of bitterness in that smile; perhaps he would rather have seen her not obey him so readily.
But how anxiously did he wait for the time when he could see the sick woman!
You want me to swear that I am twenty-one when I am not, to bribe the receiver, and to take a claim and all the improvements on it from a sick man?
But more than that was he moved by her diligent management of the household, her unwearying patience with the querulous and feeble-minded sick woman, her tact and common-sense, and especially the entire truthfulness of her character.
