All 10 Uses of
malady
in
The Idiot
- 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.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- "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?†
Chpt 1.3
- All this is mere jealousy—it is some malady of yours, Parfen!†
Chpt 2.3
- 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.†
Chpt 2.5
- Certainly Fortune favoured him, for, apart from the interesting malady of which he was cured in Switzerland (can there be a cure for idiocy?†
Chpt 2.8
- All this might pass, but the sequel is absolutely unpardonable, and not to be excused by any interesting malady.†
Chpt 2.8
- I have been told that consumptives sometimes do go out of their minds for a while in the last stages of the malady.†
Chpt 3.5
- No, I dare say you don't; you had some malady at the time, I remember.†
Chpt 4.7
- 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.†
Chpt 4.10
- 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.†
Chpt 4.12
Definition:
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(malady) illness or other bad condition