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Example sentences for "suffering"

Lexicographically close words:
sufferer; sufferers; sufferest; suffereth; sufferin; sufferings; suffers; suffetes; suffice; sufficed
  1. At length the snake-stones dropped off of their own accord; the suffering of the man appeared to have subsided; he twisted his fingers till the joints cracked, and went on his way without concern.

  2. To persons already suffering from disease, the experiment of a residence in Ceylon is one of questionable propriety.

  3. We cannot afford to be ungenerous to the city in which we live without suffering the penalty which lack of fair interpretation always entails.

  4. Life had become intensified by the consciousness of the suffering and starvation of millions of their fellow subjects.

  5. Still another boy made the readjustment for himself in spite of the great physical suffering involved.

  6. It is only novices in the game, however, that you will find suffering these deprivations, for, believe me, there is no need for them.

  7. If you should for any reason not find this possible without a certain delay, then put on a warm coat or other wrap immediately, and this will generally prevent you from suffering any ill effects.

  8. I shrank back in horror, for I saw so much real suffering that my own trouble grew less in intensity.

  9. He shot a quick look at her, hoping to find some slight sign of weakening; but her marble face wore the expression of one who has suffered so greatly that the capacity for suffering is exhausted.

  10. I never realized the tenth part of her suffering in Paris," he said, "though I knew far more about Prince Michael's conduct than he guessed.

  11. You see, sitting there in Paris and reading of your phenomenal progress, I pictured to myself the isolation, the lack of sympathetic companionship, that you must be suffering here despite all the brave fireworks of your achievements.

  12. Abu told me that his wife, of whom he was very fond, was suffering very great pain from a tooth--could I cure her?

  13. They used to give this to people suffering from fever--about as much as you could put on your nail for men and women, and half as much for children.

  14. He had been suffering more from thirst than from pain, and he seemed stronger, already.

  15. He was suffering from a terrible cut in the shoulder, which had almost severed the arm.

  16. Thank God, after two years of suffering and misery, since the fatal day at El Obeid, I am once again amongst friends.

  17. Susanna Soellnerin, servant maid of Aub, aged 22, had already been thirteen weeks in hospital, suffering from roaring noises in the head and deafness.

  18. Suffering from dropsy owing to disorganisation of the liver.

  19. His memoirs cease at the year 1602, when he was suffering from gout, but he lived on some years longer.

  20. Soon after, the niece assured her uncle that the ghost of her aunt had appeared to her, and told her she was suffering in Purgatory.

  21. Then Prince Hohenlohe began to speak to the suffering girl of the power of faith, and mentioned the wonders wrought by the prayers of Michel.

  22. You perceive it, with senses which suffering and a pure soul have made fine beyond the measure of woman.

  23. What of the sick and suffering out yonder, who are waiting and hoping against hope?

  24. Lay your suffering and your sickness from you as an out-worn garment.

  25. Her face has the curious refinement which physical suffering sometimes brings.

  26. To the mother it is not slight, nor to the God who put into her eyes, as she looked at me, all the doubt and question of the suffering earth.

  27. On coming to my senses, I found myself stripped naked and suffering acute pain.

  28. This we did, suffering much from hunger and thirst, as well as being confined so long in one position.

  29. She was in good health, but suffering much in mind from having no account of you.

  30. Coleridge, I know not what suffering scenes you have gone through at Bristol.

  31. Mrs. Monkhouse, I am most happy to say, is better Mary has been tormented with a rheumatism, which is leaving her, I am suffering from the festivities of the season.

  32. I own I am thankful that the good creature has ended all her days of suffering and infirmity.

  33. Deep thought, striving with humor; the lines of suffering wreathed into cordial mirth, and a smile of painful sweetness, present an image to the mind it can as little describe as lose.

  34. Brother Cluff and I occupied one room with a Missourian named McCarty, said to be suffering with consumption.

  35. I have often reflected upon the last trial and suffering of our beloved Savior; what must have been the anguish of the few loving, trusting, weeping disciples who followed him to the closing scene on Calvary!

  36. My earliest recollection is of suffering with the chills.

  37. November 24th, we visited Sister Mary Hatt, who has been suffering for twenty-seven years with rheumatism.

  38. As soon as word of the mob's treachery reached Winter Quarters, teams were sent back to bring up the suffering remnants; and they were given all the care and attention possible under existing conditions.

  39. The latter is still confined to his bed, suffering from the effects of the terrible bruises he received in a coal pit two years, ago; but he keeps in good spirits and is firm in the faith.

  40. What caused the quails to come in such tame flocks to our suffering camps on the west bank of the Mississippi river?

  41. Perhaps he was suffering from a guilty conscience.

  42. The old man drew a deep, long-suffering sigh.

  43. When about to become a mother, her capacity for suffering greatly increases, and after childbirth it remains intense.

  44. It is too monstrous, and the suffering too infernal!

  45. He cannot injure his world voluntarily without suffering from his own action.

  46. I am more than sorry for that terrible destruction and suffering in the Ken; but when I think of Okayama, again, I cannot help thinking that the good fortune, which seems especially to belong to Matsue, has not yet deserted her.

  47. I should not like to attempt it, unless I were suffering very badly from chills and fever.

  48. The emotional qualities, you might suggest, are also indirectly developed by the suffering the others inflict;--there is action and reaction.

  49. This villa was afterwards called di Madama, and there still remain many traces, although suffering from time, of the munificence of that prince, and the taste of the school of Raffaello.

  50. It cannot prevent a rise in prices, with the consequent suffering among the poor.

  51. As the blood gushed out he lapped it up; and instead of suffering the fatal weakness which might have been expected from the haemorrhage, he seems to have done well.

  52. A mass of rock suffering thrusting or lagging may yield unequally in its several parts, and those portions tending to travel more rapidly than the adjoining masses in the same sheet may be cut off by fractures.

  53. Famines have caused widespread suffering in all countries and ages.

  54. Lack of personal cleanliness is an almost necessary factor in its development, but any one in delicate health, especially if suffering from phthisis, seems especially liable to contract it.

  55. But when he saw the face of Antoine Picard he knew that one, at least, in the cart was suffering as much as he.

  56. Suffering hunteth sin, as the gaunt hound the hare, and tears it in the greenest brakes.

  57. Yoomy, "why war with words over this poor, suffering land.

  58. Suffering is suffering; be the sufferer man, brute, or thing.

  59. He also admitted to a wife suffering from something with a name that hurt, and various young railway magnates of both sexes.

  60. The company commander was wrestling with returns, and Percy himself led the long-suffering platoon.

  61. Be it known then that for several years Bendigo Jones had been in the habit of inflicting upon a long-suffering and inoffensive public a series of lumps of material.

  62. Winnowed by the fan of suffering and death, the wheat of the harvest will shed its tares of discord and suspicion.

  63. I admit that the fault lies entirely with the harassed and long-suffering gentleman who boasts the proud title of "spoil's officer.

  64. Down from all this glory he descended into one of the poorest provinces of his illimitable realm, assuming the frail and suffering nature of its fallen people, "And God with God was man with men.

  65. There is but one answer to these questions; and if you love Christ as they loved him, you will be ready to make any sacrifice or endure any suffering for his glory.

  66. If you love the Lord Jesus, you will rejoice even in suffering for his sake.

  67. When I arrived at Amoy in 1847, he was suffering from ophthalmia.

  68. He seemed to be suffering under a severe attack of colic.

  69. But his face was so deformed from suffering that we could not guess his age.

  70. She exhorted and besought him to exhibit the meekness and endurance taught by the meek and suffering Saviour.

  71. After suffering much from fatigue and hunger they arrived at Canton, overland, on the 17th ult.

  72. In Amoy suffering abounds, and I suppose is increasing.

  73. Her mother was suffering from spinal complaint, it appeared, with very serious nervous complications, and there was no answering for the result of the smallest excitement.

  74. From childhood he had suffered from a complaint which the doctors did not understand, a pain in the head, behind the ears, accompanied by fever and an intense melancholy, which tempted him to hide like a suffering animal.

  75. Soon after her departure Pascal showed symptoms of a fatal affection of the heart, and after some weeks of great suffering telegraphed for Clotilde to come back.

  76. She was a girl of the middle-classes, whose family history was a bad one, and after suffering for years from anemia, she ultimately died of phthisis.

  77. Absence of water means suffering and sickness, dearth and death.

  78. His very faithfulness to His mission has led to Himself suffering depreciation at our hands, through our ignorance.

  79. Ask any mother here: Would you not gladly suffer pain in place of your child suffering if you could?

  80. Thus it happened that Sir Abraham's opinion was not at once forthcoming, and the uncertainty, the expectation, and suffering of the folk of Barchester was maintained at a high pitch.

  81. Meanwhile Fred Sievert had shown that the poverty they were suffering from was caused by their having to pay so much for keeping up the roads, and had proposed that the road tax should be done away with.

  82. So she said that Mina was suffering from dreadful toothache, and that she knew her brother Charles had a wonderful remedy for it which could only be used with effect between twelve and one at night, and in complete silence.

  83. Strump did not think him dangerously wounded, and then Braesig went to see George who was apparently suffering from congestion of the lungs.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    suffering from; suffering humanity