People found fun in the sufferings of the weak under derision and abuse.
All the parts have a legitimate share in the acts and sufferingsof the society.
The woes of negro slaves were insignificant, like a drop to an ocean, in comparison with the sufferings of ancient slaves, for the latter generally belonged to civilized peoples.
Nothing so delighted them as painting the torments and sufferings of the lost.
Walker emphatically mentions, among the sufferingsof a clergyman's wife and family in the Great Rebellion, that they were forced to drink water with crab-apples stamped in to relish it.
The merits of the sufferings and death of his Son, are applied to the nations before excluded from his bounty.
Her love for Christ was so real, and her sorrow for His sufferings so great, that she prayed that she might bear the pain that He had borne.
All hersufferings she bore most patiently, but her heart was glad when the end came.
From the first tidings of the dire calamity his thoughts have been absorbed in sympathy and desire to alleviate the sufferings of the devastated region.
Volumes might be written of the sufferings endured and valor exhibited by the survivors of the flood, or of the heart-rending grief with which so many were stricken.
Whereas the sufferings of others, caused by our injustice and violence, enter the consciousness indirectly, that is, by the secondary channel of a mental picture, and not till they are understood by experience.
That we may be dissatisfied with ourselves, and saddened by reason of sufferingswhich we have inflicted, not undergone, is a plain fact and impossible to be denied.
To what underlies this, the empty, unmeaning name of pessimism has been given; the true definition is, a profound compassion for the undeniable sufferings of humanity.
Even during his sufferings he is perfectly calm; for he knows that Jupiter's reign is but a passing period in the life of the universe.
The climax was put to his sufferings when he overheard her one evening saying to her maid: "Do you think I could care anything for that lame boy?
Nor have his sufferings closed his heart to the more earthly love passion.
The rabbinical evidence as to sufferings of the Messiah is also too late to be used in reconstructing the pre-Christian environment of Paul.
All this he suffered, that sinners through his sufferings might receive a title to the joys of that better world that God has prepared for those that love him.
The things of eternity occupied his entire thoughts; he seldom spoke of his sufferings as being great, but expressed thankfulness that he was passing so easily away.
On the fifteenth day the rash came on again; the throat swelled badly, and the sufferings of the dear little one were extreme.
Towards midnight the doctor came, and a young daughter, younger than many who graced the festive ball, following his directions, alleviated the sufferings of a sick mother, and wore the weary night away in anxious watchings.
And though I think the sufferings of '39 will keep Birmingham and the Welch collieries in check, we cannot venture to move any of our force from those districts.
Those worthy gentlemen too appear to have been singularly unconscious of the sufferings of the little Trappers, which was remarkable, as many of them were in their own employ.
Zinebi was moved; for he was a prince of a mild nature, and had much compassion for thesufferings of the unfortunate.
He trembled at the sight of this unmerciful wretch, and at the very thoughts of the sufferings he was to endure for another year, at the conclusion of which he was to die the most horrible death.
He resigned himself to the same Providence who had relieved his sufferings in his voyage, and concealed, as well as he could, his uneasiness from the magician, who now endeavoured to sooth and flatter him with artful promises and caresses.
I am only concerned for my daughter; her sufferings alone afflict me; yet I believe her to be so good a sister as to follow my example.
But what one may call the climax of the misery is, that I so feed upon my tears and sufferings with a morbid attraction that I can only be rescued from it by main force and in despite of myself.
He worked there, striving night and day, denying himself rest and the comforts he could well afford in order that the sufferings of a few might be alleviated.
I felt that I ought to work in one of the overcrowded cities; that I might, with the income my father had left me, alleviate the sufferings of some of the deserving poor; that I might be the means of effecting some good in the world.
I had not taken on the sufferings even of a family man.
It is through the sufferings of humanity that humanity is reached.
The sufferings of these unfortunate animals touched the hardest heart; but the amateurs had neither eyes, attention, nor interest, except for the bull.
The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise: What was thy pity's recompense?
Mante (223) gives horrible details of thesufferings of the rangers.
In fact she never wavered in her spite against Frederic, and her fortitude was perfect in bearing the sufferings of others and defying dangers that could not touch her.
My sufferings will be greater, but I shall be near him.
My sufferings cannot be wiped out with a few pieces of gold.
For my part I hate these pale, tearful, sighing, self-destroying beauties, and the farcical exhibition of their sufferings would never soften my heart.
Still the voyagers were often compelled to wade through deep mire, and their sufferings were at times severe.
Were the sympathies of the savage excited, in view of the sufferings of the white man?
It was with feelings of great pride and deep sorrow that he read of the sufferings of the German believers for their Faith and the persecutions they underwent so heroically, and with such unflinching loyalty, for our Holy Cause.
Your trials and sufferings have been a constant source of anxiety and painful sorrow, not to me alone, but to the Ladies of the Household as well as to the friends at large.
Neither death nor the sufferings of the dying made much impression on the spectators.
We are incapable of entering into the callousness of the Oriental heart in reference to the sufferings or the death of enemies.
I see engraved upon their faces something indescribable, that seemed to ask: Is this the bitter end of our sufferings and our sorrows, of our faith and of our strong crying to God?
Still, there were some who related sad facts and who were not silent as to the sufferings of the women in that Republic.
Your sufferings have aged you; mine have transformed a child into a woman--a woman who knows the promptings of her heart, who knows that it beats for you, and you alone in all the world.
I will not pretend to describe mysufferings to you on this sad occasion; they were aggravated by my being near the time of lying-in.
My dear creature, yoursufferings almost make me mad.
He enlarged greatly on the sufferings of his heart, in the struggle between his love for me, and his duty to the person who had his first vows; and whom, he declared, his infidelity had almost brought to the grave.
Miss Burchell's merit and sufferings must be rewarded; and I shall bless Mr Faulkland as the guardian of the injured, the patron of the afflicted, the assertor of his own, as well as of my honour.
The silent sufferings of the injured, must, to a mind not ungenerous, be a sharper rebuke than it is in the power of language to inflict.
Rather let my sufferings and my disgrace lie wrapped in oblivion, than bring any disaster on the father of my children.
My voyage indeed was not long, but mysufferings were great while they lasted.
When I reflect on the past, when I survey the present, and my foreboding heart whispers to me the future sufferings of our dear unhappy Mr Faulkland, all my philosophy forsakes me.
I shall see you and Lady Ardagh before my death; try to compose her--her sufferingsdistress me much; but what is past cannot now be mended.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sufferings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
