Hospital records: problems related to chronic alcoholism.

Ellen Raskin  --  The Westing Game

Maybe it was a home with a chronically ill relative who was interested in regular examination by a young person who would listen endlessly to ailments and take precise notes.

Holly Goldberg Sloan  --  Counting by 7s

Chronic and severe.

Scott Pratt  --  An Innocent Client

To Werner, he looks capable of severe and chronic violence.

Anthony Doerr  --  All the Light We Cannot See

Another girl is frantically asking a nurse about the difference between "chronic medical conditions" and "pre-existing medical conditions."

Lauren Oliver  --  Delirium

S/he experiences hallucinations, vomiting, chronic migraines, memory loss, and/or fainting spells.

Alexandra Bracken  --  The Darkest Minds

The rather desperate wreck of a father, a chronic lush and also something of a womanizer; the mother, slightly unbalanced and a grim pietist, known throughout the upper-middle-class, country-club and high-Episcopal echelons of the city for her long-suffering tolerance of her husband’s mistress, herself a social-climbing dimwit from the sticks; and the daughter finally, poor dead Maria, doomed and a victim from the outset through all the tangled misunderstandings, petty hatreds and…

William Styron  --  Sophie’s Choice

The symptoms were rather puzzling; not like ulcer, I thought, nor cancer—not with that much flesh still on his bones—perhaps just chronic gastritis, as Geilie insisted.

Diana Gabaldon  --  Outlander

As bright as he was, he was clumsy; his flat voice, his habit of breathing through his mouth due to a chronically blocked nose, gave him the appearance of being mildly stupid instead of excessively smart.

Donna Tartt  --  The Goldfinch

Night sweats, unusual bruises, fatigue, chronic fevers?

Khaled Hosseini  --  And The Mountains Echoed

The disbelief of the chronically hungry.

Suzanne Collins  --  Catching Fire

They were used now to stomach-aches and a sort of chronic diarrhoea.

William Golding  --  Lord of the Flies

All that cycling gave him chronically sore shoulders.

Sara Shepard  --  Pretty Little Liars

Chronically dehydrated, he drank as much as he could; after an 880-meter run in 106-degree heat, he downed eight orangeades and a quart of beer.

Laura Hillenbrand  --  Unbroken

It was a chronic attribute, pervading his entire person.

Ayn Rand  --  The Fountainhead

The effects of swainsonine poisoning are chronic, the alkaloid rarely kills outright.

Jon Krakauer  --  Into the Wild

It was clear to me at a glance that he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease.

Arthur Conan Doyle  --  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

They seemed to be modifying their usual attitude of floating, chronic disapproval.

John Knowles  --  A Separate Peace

I lived in a state of chronic uneasiness respecting my behavior to Joe.

Charles Dickens  --  Great Expectations

He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity.

H.G. Wells  --  The Invisible Man

In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage.

George Orwell  --  1984

The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery.

Mark Twain  --  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

A chronic chill kept her from feeling warm, in spite of being covered with her heavy woolen bedspread.

Laura Esquivel  --  Like Water for Chocolate

I slept with Grandmother Baxter, who was afflicted with chronic bronchitis and smoked heavily.

Maya Angelou  --  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas.

Joseph Heller  --  Catch-22

Of course they did not know this, they only wanted to take the land for rubber, but the Olinka have been eating yams to prevent malaria and to control chronic blood disease for thousands and thousands of years.

Alice Walker  --  The Color Purple

A clean-cut and energetic thirty-two-year-old from Marietta, a suburb north of Atlanta, Anderson had battled a lifetime of chronically low self-esteem and a nagging feeling that there was something about himself that wasn’t quite right.

Warren St. John  --  Outcasts United

Something chronic.

George Bernard Shaw  --  Pygmalion

He was thirty-eight, but his chronic weariness made people think at times that he was older than his brother.

Ayn Rand  --  Atlas Shrugged

We were still ten kilometers from the village when my chronic backache spread to a deep, rock-hard contraction across my lower belly, and I understood with horror that I was in labor.

Barbara Kingsolver  --  The Poisonwood Bible

A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

Aldous Huxley  --  Brave New World

The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites.

Jack London  --  The Call of the Wild

Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.

Herman Melville  --  Moby Dick

What if it were possible for autism— for mind-blindness—to be a temporary condition instead of a chronic one?

Malcolm Gladwell  --  Blink

It was now a chronic infection.

Malcolm Gladwell  --  The Tipping Point

As a result, Aunt Pitty was chronically in what Uncle Peter called a "state," never knowing when her bedroom would be entered by an officer and a squad of men.

Margaret Mitchell  --  Gone with the Wind

It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn’t the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby.

Jon Krakauer  --  Into Thin Air

This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing,—a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.

Alexandre Dumas  --  The Count of Monte Cristo

’Part of it is the PTSD-Peter’s response to chronic victimization.

Jodi Picoult  --  Nineteen Minutes

There are marked symptoms of chronic exhibitionism.

James Joyce  --  Ulysses