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  • When she sticks out her tongue and allows me to treat her small maladies, I can see that every one of her organs has been compromised in some way.†   (source)
  • From then on, Ruth's malady was elevated to an annual sanctioned event.†   (source)
  • And at which of the holy sites did you say your daughter contracted this malady, M. Weintraub?†   (source)
  • Pitezel was plagued with various maladies: sore knees from the installation of one too many floors, a wart on his neck that kept him from wearing a stiff collar, and teeth so painful that at one point he had to suspend his work for Holmes.†   (source)
  • Of course, most maladies in most short stories, or even novels, are not quite so productive of meaning.†   (source)
  • Then you'll spread every known malady across the world.†   (source)
  • Billford had diagnosed the fatal malady as a heart attack, although the girl was very young — only eighteen — and had seemed in the pink of health.†   (source)
  • It appears that even in the wildest bursts of her terrible malady, she is continually haunted by a memory of the past.†   (source)
  • Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mold or damp.†   (source)
  • We elves fancy ourselves immortal, but not even we can escape certain maladies of the flesh, which are beyond our knowledge of magic to do more than delay.†   (source)
  • Of late the old man's bodily health had mended suddenly, almost marvellously; but he remained vacant, childish in mind, and so far the authorities had retained him, hoping to probe in some way to the obscure, moving cause of his malady.†   (source)
  • With luck a crewman would come down with some obscure malady, and he'd have something interesting to work on for once.†   (source)
  • Russ is shouting himself right out of his sore throat, out of every malady and pathology and complaint and all the pangs of growing up and every memory that is not tender.†   (source)
  • Besides fortunes there were little balls of sawdust to amuse the children and a special powder that was supposed to cure impotence, which Marcos sold under his breath to passersby afflicted with that malady.†   (source)
  • Maladies considered mild at home continued to reduce our numbers.†   (source)
  • These reports have nothing to do with artistic talent, kicking ability, or maladies that respond well to salt sea air; they deal with one thing only: the citizen's political profile (in other words, what the citizen says, what he thinks, how he behaves, how he acquits himself at meetings or May Day parades).†   (source)
  • If my mother was right and it was stress related, I was sure I could blame myself for this latest malady, whatever it was.†   (source)
  • "Amsterdam fever" was a well-known and dreaded malady.†   (source)
  • I held my tongue and forbore from saying that the cure for his malady was a little continence, for I wanted his help that day, and I would be hard pressed to get it if I angered him.†   (source)
  • Some childhood malady had made all his hair fall out.†   (source)
  • It was a secret malady that I could share with none of my friends, but I was glad that at least this secret had a name.†   (source)
  • "Why do you not cure this malady with magic?" a Hajin boy asks.†   (source)
  • I could normally "remove her from her service" for medical reasons, with his permission, of course, but to select her out regularly, and only her, before indications of an illness or malady was unusual indeed.†   (source)
  • At this time of year the Giulianis normally would have eaten in the garden, but, now, even had the attorney not suffered maladies of the heart, they would have been driven indoors by an unusually frigid and surprisingly windy October.†   (source)
  • A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less able to pervade the whole Union, just like a malady is more likely to taint a specific county or district than an entire State.†   (source)
  • Now looking at her hands, small and with short, bitten fingernails, he asked about its proximity to his spine, the likelihood that it had caused his clumsiness, his slowness, his lack of energy, every other malady and weakness he'd felt.†   (source)
  • She had no vices other than a taste for white wine, and no physical or emotional maladies except insomnia, which was brought on by the irregularity of her hours.†   (source)
  • And he'd seen his fair share of odd maladies.†   (source)
  • And she knew the name of the malady.†   (source)
  • And it seemed to the tenders of the sick that on the Halfling and on the Lady of Rohan this malady lay heavily.†   (source)
  • St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries decline comment….†   (source)
  • Confusion Itch was the name of the malady, Precious Auntie said.†   (source)
  • 'He has been taken to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.†   (source)
  • Because I had rid her heart of its gravest malady.†   (source)
  • He treated other maladies when necessary, but bonesetting was his specialty.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, the malady might have lain dormant for many more years.†   (source)
  • It's a cesspool of nursery maladies, insect bites and rashes.†   (source)
  • They were an old malady that appeared whenever he was depressed.†   (source)
  • "We've got twenty percent of units reporting a variety of maladies.†   (source)
  • Her malady begins far back before this day, does it not, Eomer?†   (source)
  • We are currently making arrangements to have him transferred to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.†   (source)
  • A small smudged sign beside it read: ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF MAGICAL BRETHREN WILL BE GIVEN TO ST MUNGO'S HOSPITAL FOR MAGICAL MALADIES AND INJURIES.†   (source)
  • "A team of Healers from St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries are examining him as we speak.†   (source)
  • …to heat, depressing light and damp stale smell, cheap clothes on the high street and so many American chains in London now it's like a shopping mall, and what meds are you on and what meds am I on (we both had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a malady that in Europe had different initials, it seemed, and got you sent to a hospital for Army vets if you weren't careful); her tiny garden, which she shared with half a dozen people, and the batty Englishwoman who'd filled it with ailing…†   (source)
  • They later adopted the term "psychopath," used in the lay press as early as 1885 in William Stead's Pall Mall Gazette, which described it as a "new malady" and stated, "Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath."†   (source)
  • It may be an encoding of TB or of some other malady, but chiefly it is wh4 no real disease can ever be: exactly what theauthor wants it to be.†   (source)
  • Melio and the other Hyperion experts at Reichs say that the Shrike Cult has nothing like the Merlin sickness in their doctrine and the indigenies on Hyperion have no legends of the malady or clues to its cure.†   (source)
  • It smelled faintly of fast-food deep fryers—a good sign that it carried some sort of horrible malady.†   (source)
  • Let us hope that all her previous guilt may be attributed to the incipient workings of this frightful malady.†   (source)
  • Religious fanaticism I find to be fully as prolific an exciting cause of insanity as intemperance — but I am inclined to believe that neither religion nor intemperance will induce insanity in a truly sound mind — I think there is always a predisposing cause which renders the individual liable to the malady, when exposed to any disturbing agency, whether mental or physical.†   (source)
  • Fudge, who wasn't listening, said, "Lucius has just given a very generous contribution to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, Arthur.†   (source)
  • It's too bad modern writers lost the generic "fever" and the mystery malady when modern medicine got so it could identify virtually any microbe and thereby diagnose virtually any disease.†   (source)
  • — CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO — St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries Harry was so relieved she was taking him seriously that he did not hesitate, but jumped out of bed at once, pulled on his dressing gown and pushed his glasses back on to his nose.†   (source)
  • Chapter 13: The Secret Riddle Katie was removed to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries the following day, by which time the news that she had been cursed had spread all over the school, though the details were confused and nobody other than Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Leanne seemed to know that Katie herself had not been the intended target.†   (source)
  • It is possible, say top experts at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, that Potters brain was affected by the attack inflicted upon him by YouKnowWho, and that his insistence that the scar is still hurting is an expression of his deep-seated confusion.†   (source)
  • And in Peking, there are strange ailments we have never even experienced here, maladies that could make the tips of LuLing's nose and fingers fall off.†   (source)
  • …and Harry read the floor guide: ARTEFACT ACCIDENTS… Ground floor Cauldron explosion, wand backfiring, broom crashes, etc. CREATURE-INDUCED INJURIES… First floor Bites, stings, burns, embedded spines, etc. MAGICAL BUGS… Second floor Contagious maladies, e.g. dragon pox, vanishing sickness, scrojungulus, etc. POTION AND PLANT POISONING… Third floor Rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable 2, etc. SPELL DAMAGE… Fourth floor Unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly applied charms, etc. VISITORS'…†   (source)
  • Before I was made seriously ill either by our social calendar or by exposure to an unfortunate malady.†   (source)
  • A benevolent God might have seen fit to give her a quiet day at the clinic, but a parade of human malady kept her running from examination room to examination room until six that evening.†   (source)
  • Michael AIompellion did not trust the men he might take to the croft to understand Aphra's behavior as a lunatic malady, merely, and he did not want to unleash the kind of fear and rumor that encounters with a witch and her snake familiar might bring to the surface.†   (source)
  • In medical texts of the time, "nervous fever," or "slow nervous fever," was defined as an "insidious and dangerous" malady that began with list-lessness, followed by chills, flushes of heat, "and a kind of weariness all over, like what is felt after a great fatigue.†   (source)
  • I and the other spellweavers will study your malady to see if we might devise a way to alleviate it, but in the meantime, your training will proceed as if nothing were amiss.†   (source)
  • As for the other three girls, he instructed me in a carefully written note, I would remove them only if they were diseased or if a malady was imminently life-threatening, and in all other instances I was to employ the least wasteful treatment and have Mrs. Matsui take them away.†   (source)
  • Prophet gave the general appearance that a thought never entered his head, that his brain had never suffered from the painful malady of an idea.†   (source)
  • But because the society had corroded Mrs. Brown's image of the black man, I did not feel sufficiently compelled to allow Mrs. Brown to infect my students with her malady.†   (source)
  • When at last I break our silence and banteringly broach the possibility that she may be a victim of this malady, she seems not so much insulted as hurt, and softly begins to sob again.†   (source)
  • But now their art and knowledge were baffled; for there were many sick of a malady that would not be healed; and they called it the Black Shadow, for it came from the Nazgul.†   (source)
  • And although it was Nathan's own keen if nonprofessional diagnosis which so accurately pegged the nature of Sophie's malady very soon after their encounter at the Brooklyn College library, his brother was instrumental in helping to find a cure for that problem too.†   (source)
  • And how have you contrived to escape those widespread maladies?†   (source)
  • The terrible name of his malady was never uttered save by him.†   (source)
  • He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.†   (source)
  • Now one day when his disciples were by him, Titus said to him: "You who cure all maladies, why do you not fix it so that Petronilla can get up from her bed?"†   (source)
  • For the first time the doctor felt they were keeping aloof, wrapping themselves up in their malady with a sort of bemused hostility.†   (source)
  • While there, he was told by his physician that he had a fatal malady, and he at once took ship and hurried homeward, to make his report to Bishop Vaillant and to die in the harness.†   (source)
  • Some malady is coining upon Us.†   (source)
  • There had appeared that year upon the nape of his neck a small tetter of itch, a sign of his kinship with the Pentlands—a token of his kinship with the great malady of life.†   (source)
  • From four in the morning Dr. Castel and Tarrou had been keeping watch and noting, stage by stage, the progress and remissions of the malady.†   (source)
  • In a very few days the number of cases had risen by leaps and bounds, and it became evident to all observers of this strange malady that a real epidemic had set in.†   (source)
  • He asked the medical students innumerable questions about the treatment or cure of inherited blood maladies, venereal diseases, intestinal and inguinal cancers, and the transference of animal glands to men.†   (source)
  • Reviewing that first phase in the light of subsequent events, our townsfolk realized that they had never dreamed it possible that our little town should be chosen out for the scene of such grotesque happenings as the wholesale death of rats in broad daylight or the decease of concierges through exotic maladies.†   (source)
  • It prophesied possibly a new cycle, a new pousse of the malady.†   (source)
  • Kiss me once again, and go to thy trifles and amusements; for my malady distresseth me.†   (source)
  • I was in hopes that you had a prescription against the malady, my little Chauvelin.†   (source)
  • All this is mere jealousy—it is some malady of yours, Parfen!†   (source)
  • Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.†   (source)
  • No, I dare say you don't; you had some malady at the time, I remember.†   (source)
  • The rumor spread in the University that the Rue Tirechappe was especially devastated by the malady.†   (source)
  • The course of the malady had been terribly swift in the three years.†   (source)
  • The toothache was the only malady to which Tom had ever been subject.†   (source)
  • I would e'en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady.†   (source)
  • Are these the usual changes of your malady, madame?'†   (source)
  • --but had she then grown taller since her malady?†   (source)
  • He entered, at some length, into what he conceived to be the nature of his malady.†   (source)
  • There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady.†   (source)
  • Since the first attack I experienced of this malady, I have continually reflected on it.†   (source)
  • No. In addition to my older malady, I have had a sudden and bad attack.†   (source)
  • And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required.†   (source)
  • "It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor.†   (source)
  • Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired health.†   (source)
  • With that malady of progress, civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage.†   (source)
  • Is any one the less ill because one does not know the name of one's malady?†   (source)
  • This malady admits but of one remedy; I will tell you what that is.†   (source)
  • There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered.†   (source)
  • It is a malady that one gets without knowing how.†   (source)
  • Since when has malady banished medicine?†   (source)
  • They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are inoculating themselves with the past.†   (source)
  • Among these men, to beat means to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength.†   (source)
  • My child will not die of that frightful malady, for lack of succor.†   (source)
  • The maladies of the people do not kill man.†   (source)
  • Feudal and monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood.†   (source)
  • The government that I fought for left me to starve, or to die of my maladies like a dog, for all it cared.†   (source)
  • There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.†   (source)
  • She moved with difficulty--I think she was lame--I seem to remember some story about a malady of the spine.†   (source)
  • I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be sleeping, though his position was an elevated one, his malady preventing him lying down.†   (source)
  • It shocked him to find in the outer world a trace of what he had deemed till then a brutish and individual malady of his own mind.†   (source)
  • …encouraged Ferge and Wehsal to do so as well, which they did—the former, of course, with a qualifying reminder that all higher things were foreign to him (for only the experience of pleural shock had ever lifted him above life's most unpretentious levels); the latter, however, with obvious pleasure in the happy course an oppressed man's life had taken, even though—since all good things must come to an end—it was now at a standstill and appeared to be foundering in their common malady.†   (source)
  • Replying to them, he made known to the inquirer that he certainly had been long absent from Russia, more than four years; that he had been sent abroad for his health; that he had suffered from some strange nervous malady—a kind of epilepsy, with convulsive spasms.†   (source)
  • The air was thick and murky with the smoke of it; and this, combined with the violent movement of the ship as she struggled through the storm, would surely have made me sea-sick had I been a victim to that malady.†   (source)
  • Suspicion in the Oriental is a sort of malignant tumour, a mental malady, that makes him self-conscious and unfriendly suddenly; he trusts and mistrusts at the same time in a way the Westerner cannot comprehend.†   (source)
  • Your master, Poole, is plainly seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer; hence, for aught I know, the alteration of his voice; hence the mask and the avoidance of his friends; hence his eagerness to find this drug, by means of which the poor soul retains some hope of ultimate recovery—God grant that he be not deceived!†   (source)
  • And so, by the chemical process of his malady, after he had created jealousy out of his love, he began again to generate tenderness, pity for Odette.†   (source)
  • The people were terrified of these two horrible curses, the two maladies which nothing could cure, and which were the precursors of an awful and lonely death.†   (source)
  • Jonathan still pale and dizzy under a slight relapse of his malady, and now a telegram from Van Helsing, whoever he may be.†   (source)
  • He stopped, blushed, then continued low and sadly: "Ah, my malady persecuteth me again, and my mind wandereth.†   (source)
  • He tried to write the matter out of his mind in a memorandum that went into detail as to the solemn régime before her; the possibilities of another "push" of the malady under the stresses which the world would inevitably supply—in all a memorandum that would have been convincing to any one save to him who had written it.†   (source)
  • He realised, at such moments, that that interest, that gloom, existed in him only as a malady might exist, and that, once he was cured of the malady, the actions of Odette, the kisses that she might have bestowed, would become once again as innocuous as those of countless other women.†   (source)
  • LETTER FROM DR. SEWARD TO ARTHUR HOLMWOOD 2 September "My dear old fellow, "With regard to Miss Westenra's health I hasten to let you know at once that in my opinion there is not any functional disturbance or any malady that I know of.†   (source)
  • The Lord Protector was as amazed as the rest, but quickly recovered himself, and exclaimed in a voice of authority— "Mind not his Majesty, his malady is upon him again—seize the vagabond!"†   (source)
  • Everyone was awe-struck and silent, filled with horror for the loathsome malady, the one thing which still had the power to arouse terror and disgust in these savage, brutalised creatures.†   (source)
  • The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, a malady of dreaming, that made him unconscious of the falling day and creeping shadows.†   (source)
  • And, as a matter of fact, Swann's love had reached that stage at which the physician and (in the case of certain affections) the boldest of surgeons ask themselves whether to deprive a patient of his vice or to rid him of his malady is still reasonable, or indeed possible.†   (source)
  • "Poor child," sighed Hendon, "these woeful tales have brought his malady upon him again; alack, but for this evil hap, he would have been well in a little time."†   (source)
  • …sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.†   (source)
  • Not only because, in the hours when he most entirely mistrusted her, he had rarely imagined such a culmination of evil, but because, even when he did imagine that offence, it remained vague, uncertain, was not clothed in the particular horror which had escaped with the words "perhaps two or three times," was not armed with that specific cruelty, as different from anything that he had known as a new malady by which one is attacked for the first time.†   (source)
  • Percy had just been born when the late Lady Blakeney fell prey to the terrible malady which in those days was looked upon as hopelessly incurable and nothing short of a curse of God upon the entire family.†   (source)
  • All this might pass, but the sequel is absolutely unpardonable, and not to be excused by any interesting malady.†   (source)
  • This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result, was so cruel a scourge that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumour which would prove fatal, that he need not concern himself with anything further, that it was his malady which was going to govern his life, to make a plaything of him, until the not-distant end.†   (source)
  • His lordship said— "Thy memory still wrongeth thee, and thou hast shown surprise—but suffer it not to trouble thee, for 'tis a matter that will not bide, but depart with thy mending malady.†   (source)
  • It is a malady.†   (source)
  • I have been told that consumptives sometimes do go out of their minds for a while in the last stages of the malady.†   (source)
  • I will teach him; I will cure his malady; yea, I will be his elder brother, and care for him and watch over him; and whoso would shame him or do him hurt may order his shroud, for though I be burnt for it he shall need it!†   (source)
  • …now, like a confirmed invalid whom, all of a sudden, a change of air and surroundings, or a new course of treatment, or, as sometimes happens, an organic change in himself, spontaneous and unaccountable, seems to have so far recovered from his malady that he begins to envisage the possibility, hitherto beyond all hope, of starting to lead—and better late than never—a wholly different life, Swann found in himself, in the memory of the phrase that he had heard, in certain other sonatas…†   (source)
  • To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.†   (source)
  • Certainly Fortune favoured him, for, apart from the interesting malady of which he was cured in Switzerland (can there be a cure for idiocy?†   (source)
  • …he shall uphold his princely dignity, and shall receive, without word or sign of protest, that reverence and observance which unto it do appertain of right and ancient usage; that he shall cease to speak to any of that lowly birth and life his malady hath conjured out of the unwholesome imaginings of o'er-wrought fancy; that he shall strive with diligence to bring unto his memory again those faces which he was wont to know—and where he faileth he shall hold his peace, neither betraying…†   (source)
  • …that graceful wave of the hand that was always so characteristic of him, and that he had even in his Eton days, "I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal—to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be.†   (source)
  • Yes, his malady was coming back, it was clear enough; all this gloom and heaviness, all these "ideas," were nothing more nor less than a fit coming on; perhaps he would have a fit this very day.†   (source)
  • …he recorded those apparent and misleading signs of a slight movement on her part towards him with the same tender and sceptical solicitude, the desperate joy that people reveal who, when they are nursing a friend in the last days of an incurable malady, relate, as significant facts of infinite value: "Yesterday he went through his accounts himself, and actually corrected a mistake that we had made in adding them up; he ate an egg to-day and seemed quite to enjoy it, if he digests it…†   (source)
  • And this malady, which was Swann's love, had so far multiplied, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, was so entirely one with him that it would have been impossible to wrest it away without almost entirely destroying him; as surgeons say, his case was past operation.†   (source)
  • He did not contradict his clever and eloquent counsel, who argued that the brain fever, or inflammation of the brain, was the cause of the crime; clearly proving that this malady had existed long before the murder was perpetrated, and had been brought on by the sufferings of the accused.†   (source)
  • "At all events," put in the general, not listening to the news about the letter, "at all events, you must have learned something, and your malady would not prevent your undertaking some easy work, in one of the departments, for instance?†   (source)
  • But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subjects to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, I would see before me vacuity, nothing, would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent, or that, perhaps, a malady of the brain was hindering its development.†   (source)
  • He hoped that, some day, he might be able to hear the Island in the Bois, or the Princesse des Laumes mentioned without feeling any twinge of that old rending pain; meanwhile he thought it imprudent to provoke Odette into furnishing him with fresh sentences, with the names of more places and people and of different events, which, when his malady was still scarcely healed, would make it break out again in another form.†   (source)
  • He had given the doctor an account of Hippolyte's attempted suicide; and had proceeded thereafter to talk of his own malady,—of Switzerland, of Schneider, and so on; and so deeply was the old man interested by the prince's conversation and his description of Schneider's system, that he sat on for two hours.†   (source)
  • He was obliged to admit also that now, as he sat in the same carriage and drove to Prevost's, he was no longer the same man, was no longer alone even—but that a new personality was there beside him, adhering to him, amalgamated with him, a creature from whom he might, perhaps, be unable to liberate himself, towards whom he might have to adopt some such stratagem as one uses to outwit a master or a malady.†   (source)
  • He would say to himself, almost with astonishment, "It is she!" as when suddenly some one shews us in a detached, externalised form one of our own maladies, and we find in it no resemblance to what we are suffering.†   (source)
  • The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies coming, one after another, without interruption into the bosom of a family, will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physician.†   (source)
  • —he tried to ask himself what that meant; for it is something like love, like death (rather than like those vague conceptions of maladies), a thing which one repeatedly calls in question, in order to make oneself probe further into it, in the fear that the question will find no answer, that the substance will escape our grasp—the mystery of personality.†   (source)
  • …my grandfather would have included my aunt Leonie, who present without modification, year after year, the spectacle of their odd and unaccountable habits, which they always imagine themselves to be on the point of shaking off, but which they always retain to the end; caught in the treadmill of their own maladies and eccentricities, their futile endeavours to escape serve only to actuate its mechanism, to keep in motion the clockwork of their strange, ineluctable, fatal daily round.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, the place will be quickly forgotten, it will never be found when I am dead of the same malady, I shall be laid under some other heap of poor grass.†   (source)
  • Pierre no longer suffered moments of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment.†   (source)
  • Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay.†   (source)
  • The money produced by the sale was to constitute an endowment for a hospital for poor persons suffering from the malady of which he died; and of this portion of the will Lord Warburton was appointed executor.†   (source)
  • When Kenneth warned him that his medicines were useless at that stage of the malady, and he needn't put him to further expense by attending her, he retorted, 'I know you need not — she's well — she does not want any more attendance from you!†   (source)
  • Did you forget that this great man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a malady of the skin which worries him to death, prurigo?†   (source)
  • Thanks to the generous assistance of the St. Petersburg climate, the malady progressed more rapidly than could have been expected: and when the doctor arrived, he found, on feeling the sick man's pulse, that there was nothing to be done, except to prescribe a fomentation, so that the patient might not be left entirely without the beneficent aid of medicine; but at the same time, he predicted his end in thirty-six hours.†   (source)
  • And the conception wrought out by Bichat, with his detailed study of the different tissues, acted necessarily on medical questions as the turning of gas-light would act on a dim, oil-lit street, showing new connections and hitherto hidden facts of structure which must be taken into account in considering the symptoms of maladies and the action of medicaments.†   (source)
  • The malady will wear out by and by, the doctors say, but in the meantime she has to lie down for a twelvemonth.†   (source)
  • And of what malady?†   (source)
  • Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms.†   (source)
  • He had received from his mother a telegram to the effect that his father had had a sharp attack of his old malady, that she was much alarmed and that she begged he would instantly return to Gardencourt.†   (source)
  • My Lady, whose chronic malady of boredom has been sadly aggravated by Volumnia this evening, glances wearily towards the candlesticks and heaves a noiseless sigh.†   (source)
  • Just put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, and behold the fevers and maladies which result!†   (source)
  • And while I smothered the paroxysm with all haste, he sat calm and patient, leaning on his desk, and looking like a physician watching with the eye of science an expected and fully understood crisis in a patient's malady.†   (source)
  • The writer spoke of acute bodily illness—of a mental disorder which oppressed him—and of an earnest desire to see me, as his best, and indeed his only personal friend, with a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, some alleviation of his malady.†   (source)
  • But practically beginning with the sixteenth century, the malady of architecture is visible; it is no longer the expression of society; it becomes classic art in a miserable manner; from being Gallic, European, indigenous, it becomes Greek and Roman; from being true and modern, it becomes pseudo-classic.†   (source)
  • Seriously apprehending that his malady would increase, unless we put some innocent deception upon him and caused him to believe that he was useful, or unless we could put him in the way of being really useful (which would be better), I made up my mind to try if Traddles could help us.†   (source)
  • Countess Helene Bezukhova had suddenly died of that terrible malady it had been so agreeable to mention.†   (source)
  • "Now it is time that the malady should be over," said she; "let me rise, and obtain some success this very day.†   (source)
  • Mr. Kenneth was fortunately just issuing from his house to see a patient in the village as I came up the street; and my account of Catherine Linton's malady induced him to accompany me back immediately.†   (source)
  • At first, he was dead of all the diseases that ever were known, and of several bran-new maladies invented with the speed of Light to meet the demand of the occasion.†   (source)
  • But I persist in thinking your cousin very lucky to have a chronic malady so long as he doesn't die of it.†   (source)
  • "I believe," returned Doctor Manette, "that there had been a strong and extraordinary revival of the train of thought and remembrance that was the first cause of the malady.†   (source)
  • But when he had gone into another room, to which the countess hurriedly followed him, he assumed a grave air and thoughtfully shaking his head said that though there was danger, he had hopes of the effect of this last medicine and one must wait and see, that the malady was chiefly mental, but….†   (source)
  • In spite of Sir Matthew Hope's benevolent recommendation Madame Merle did not remain to the end, as the issue of poor Mr. Touchett's malady had now come frankly to be designated.†   (source)
  • The brother had been led to his resolution (so he told me) by consideration of the unusual character of the malady of the deceased, of certain obtrusive and eager inquiries on the part of her medical men, and of the remote and exposed situation of the burial-ground of the family.†   (source)
  • Claude Frollo's felicitations to Jacques Coictier bore reference principally to the temporal advantages which the worthy physician had found means to extract, in the course of his much envied career, from each malady of the king, an operation of alchemy much better and more certain than the pursuit of the philosopher's stone.†   (source)
  • Men, women, beasts, age, sex, health, maladies, all seemed to be in common among these people; all went together, they mingled, confounded, superposed; each one there participated in all.†   (source)
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