Both Uses of
ailment
in
Gone with the Wind
- When the cow had the colic and the horse fell ill with a mysterious ailment which threatened to remove him permanently from them, Will sat up nights with them and saved them.†
Chpt 3.30 *
- Even the strictest old ladies felt that a man who could discuss the ailments and problems of childhood as well as he did could not be altogether bad.†
Chpt 5.52
Definition:
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(ailment) an illness