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Example sentences for "sufferer"

Lexicographically close words:
suey; suffer; sufferance; sufferd; suffered; sufferers; sufferest; suffereth; sufferin; suffering
  1. But the unhappy sufferer did not live to be either accuser or witness against those who had so deeply injured her.

  2. I stopped short and addressed this sufferer with advice.

  3. It follows then that the doer of actions, the enjoyer of joys and the sufferer of sorrows is dependent on other things.

  4. Driven off the belly, the horde make the tour of the sufferer and encamp on his back, refusing to relinquish their hold.

  5. When, worn with fatigue and driven desperate by his vain attempts to get away, the sufferer lies down flat and refuses to do his duty, the fowler is able to stimulate him without stirring from his hut.

  6. Joseph in prison pronouncing the doom of one of his fellow-prisoners and the exaltation of the other, suggests the scene on Calvary where the one fellow-sufferer was taken, the other left.

  7. There is always a tendency to elevate the sufferer in the cause we favour, by the introduction of ennobling circumstances.

  8. In spite of the fact that he was now free, the sufferer could not move his limbs.

  9. I'm passin' in my checks," sighed the sufferer weakly, when he had given what information he could.

  10. The weight of the work of life in these circumstances is so crushing, requires such continued thought, and makes itself so continually felt, that the mind of the sufferer is never free from the contamination of sixpences.

  11. Who does not know that terrible feeling, and the all but necessity that exists for the sufferer to pretend that he is not suffering,--which again is aggravated by the conviction that the pretence is utterly vain?

  12. After a few years atrophy of the opinions invariably supervened, and the sufferer became stone dead to everything except the more superficial aspects of those material objects with which he came most in contact.

  13. The wounds of grief are less apt to find a cure in that rank of life where the sufferer has wealth and leisure.

  14. But the sufferer surrounded by the appliances of wealth and luxury may long indulge the baleful apathy, and remain in the damp shadows of the valley of death till strength and health are irrecoverably lost.

  15. They lack the emphasis on Jehovah's love and that divine tenderness in addressing the heroic sufferer which to us would seem to have been a satisfactory conclusion to the great drama.

  16. With marvellous psychological truth and insight the author has presented the different phases of feeling through which an innocent sufferer in Job's position naturally passes.

  17. The sufferer was cared for at the tavern in Jockey Hollow, kept at the time by Aaron Wyatt.

  18. George McLaughlin, still living near Uniontown, but now, and for a long time, a sufferer from rheumatism, is an old wagoner.

  19. I found the sufferer apparently on the very verge of eternity, but quite sensible, supported by his wife on one side, and another woman on the other, in a sitting posture on his lowly couch spread upon the ground.

  20. She was a great sufferer during the last few weeks of her life, but she died expressing her faith in the Saviour, and rejoicing that she had been led here to end her days.

  21. This was the inevitable logic of the Inquisition, although it led to the most tragic of all situations--that of being tortured to death in honor of the faith which the sufferer held.

  22. The next most conspicuous sufferer was the Licenciado Juan González, a famous preacher.

  23. In the lay courts the sufferer was obliged to pay his tormentor, for there is a provision that, if he is poor, the executioner is to receive nothing and is not allowed to take his garments in lieu of the money.

  24. In the earlier time the Inquisition was chary about affording this relief, but did not absolutely refuse it when the sufferer applied to the Suprema.

  25. They carried the sufferer up to his bed-room.

  26. In a way, she was a prisoner, and any attempt to hear news of the sufferer at the Hall would bring down upon her an angry reproof from her brother.

  27. No, not more so than performing an operation or trying to save a sufferer from death.

  28. And in selecting Samuel Rutherford to be the first sufferer for His covenanted people in Scotland, our Lord took a man who was already famous for his character and his services.

  29. This peopled the Invisible, showed each sufferer his Guardian Angel standing behind him, only awaiting the orders of Heaven in order to render him assistance.

  30. If the sufferer should survive until they reached Poitiers, where there would be half an hour's stoppage, all possible help might be given to him.

  31. Since Science was powerless, perhaps the Holy Oils would have brought the sufferer some relief.

  32. Yet have I been such a villanous plotter, that the charming sufferer will hardly believe it: although the proceeding be so dirtily low.

  33. Up then raised the charming sufferer her lovely face; but with such a significance of woe overspreading it, that I could not, for the soul of me, help being visibly affected.

  34. I doubt not your sympathizing love: but yet you cannot possibly feel indignity and persecution so very sensibly as the immediate sufferer feels them--are fitter therefore to advise me, than I am myself.

  35. When a boy fell down in a fit, his father or other competent person used to wrap the sufferer in a net, and carry him into the hall, not through the door, but through an opening made for the purpose in the roof.

  36. In Oldenburg they sometimes hang up a goldfinch or a turtle-dove in the room of a consumptive patient, hoping that the bird may draw away the malady from the sufferer to itself.

  37. In both these cases we may assume that the warts are transferred from the human sufferer to the suffering animal.

  38. M36) Often the sufferer seeks to shift his burden of sickness or ill-luck to some inanimate object.

  39. The operator seats the pair on branches, back to back, the sufferer with his face to the east, and the whole man with his face to the west.

  40. For that purpose all that need be done is to take a coffin-nail and touch with it the injured part of the patient; then set the sufferer barefoot before an oak-tree, and knock the nail into the trunk above his head.

  41. Or the sufferer may cure himself by sticking a twig of the elder-tree in the ground without speaking.

  42. The sufferer ties a thread round his left wrist at night, and hangs the thread on a tree next morning.

  43. So in Beauce and Perche a healer has been known to place a new nail on the aching tooth of a sufferer and then knock the nail into a door, a beam, or a joist.

  44. Next you ask the sufferer whether the pain is now abated, and if he says "Yes" you draw out the nail entirely.

  45. In the light of the modern instances which have come before us, we can hardly doubt that the cure was supposed to consist in actually nailing the disease into the earth in such a way that it could not get up and attack the sufferer again.

  46. Next the sufferer entered the church and lay down under the communion table till break of day.

  47. The sufferer was a woman, about nineteen or twenty years of age.

  48. Mary's heart thrilled to hear these words, for she knew that it was her hand that had created the paradise in which the sufferer fancied herself to be wandering.

  49. As the starbeams come earthward, and smile on the night, Awaking the blossoms that drooped in the day, And kindling their hearts with a dewy delight, They came to the couch where the sufferer lay.

  50. Since her troubles came on, the poor wife had often been a sufferer from nervous headaches, and this seemed but a more violent attack than usual.

  51. We know what a triumphal progress the Sentimental Sufferer made through the world, and what a bore he came to be.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sufferer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arthritic; case; consumptive; dyspeptic; epileptic; incurable; invalid; martyr; patient; prey; rheumatic; spastic; sufferer; valetudinarian; victim; wretch