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  • Turned cyborg after a debilitating work-related accident three years ago, no doubt spent most of his savings on the surgery.†   (source)
  • He keeps his gaze locked on mine in his debilitating eye-hold while he stretches.†   (source)
  • I wondered if they knew the chance they were taking by coming to Everest with untried footwear: two decades earlier I'd gone on an 31 expedition with new boots and had learned the hard way that heavy, rigid mountaineering boots can cause debilitating foot injuries before they've been broken in.†   (source)
  • Pitezel had long been a heavy drinker, but his drinking must have become debilitating, for it was Holmes who sent him to Keeley and paid for his treatment.†   (source)
  • Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.†   (source)
  • I also wanted the audience to know that I looked good, and felt OK, in part because my body had started to recover from the debilitating chemotherapy and radiation my doctors had been giving me.†   (source)
  • The poor were already severely debilitated by hunger and had no protection from the cold, since they could not possibly afford fuel.†   (source)
  • Spiritualism is the craze of the middle classes, the women especially; they gather in darkened rooms and play at table-tilting the way their grandmothers played at whist, or they emit voluminous automatic writings, dictated to them by Mozart or Shakespeare; in which case being dead, thinks Simon, has a remarkably debilitating effect on one's prose style.†   (source)
  • Cancer, heart disease, and most debilitating illnesses are almost entirely eradicated.†   (source)
  • On one of our walks along the water, Jenny, suffering a particularly debilitating bout of pregnancy-related nausea, decided to head home alone while I continued on with Patrick and Marley.†   (source)
  • For days my only ambition was to rid myself of the miserable, debilitating pain.†   (source)
  • Oliver was in Sweden recuperating from a debilitating stroke he had suffered in August 1989.†   (source)
  • The debilitating attacks sensitized him; actions that previously had caused him no trouble could now leave him writhing on the ground.†   (source)
  • Here is stickiness with a vengeance: not only do some smokers find it hard to quit because they are addicted to nicotine, but also because without nicotine they run the risk of a debilitating psychiatric illness.†   (source)
  • But he had one habit so evil that I wished debilitating illness would befall him.†   (source)
  • Then we loaded the other one, who'd been shot in the web of his hand—not such a debilitating injury.†   (source)
  • Puller's skin had been roughened by brutal heat and wind and equally debilitating cold.†   (source)
  • Larry experienced the same liberating freedom from his own debilitating guilt and failure as a father.†   (source)
  • But China is a vast country, and despite millions of casualties, Japan's war became a debilitating war of attrition.†   (source)
  • When they finally arrived, there was precious little for them to do, because the mother was resting comfortably and the babies, as tiny as seven-month-olds but with all their parts and in good condition, were sleeping in the arms of their debilitated aunt.†   (source)
  • His head throbbed with a dull, debilitating pain, and he was irritable with Orr, who had found two crab apples somewhere and walked with them in his cheeks until Yossarian spied them there and made him take them out.†   (source)
  • If not for the adrenaline flooding my system, the pain would've been totally debilitating.†   (source)
  • All the more because she felt so weak, so debilitated by Tomas's infidelities.†   (source)
  • It struck a chord of fury inside him, and if he hadn't been so debilitated by pain, he would have flung himself off the bed and onto the other boy in a rage.†   (source)
  • You haf a malfunctioning chip, you get debilitating headaches, and your leadership skills are sadly much less than ve had hoped for.†   (source)
  • Once a month would be devastating; once a day would be debilitating.†   (source)
  • Seth was a dying old man, hit with a debilitating and deadly cancer that left him weak and feeble.†   (source)
  • Ryan knew that Bethany's life (assuming that she was still breathing, a prospect that he clung to without regard for the alternative) would likely depend on his ability to disregard those debilitating emotions so that he could do what was needed to save her.†   (source)
  • Writing to Morris three days before Christmas, Washington said he thought the enemy was waiting for two events only before marching on Philadelphia— "Ice for a passage, and the dissolution of the poor remains of our debilitated army."†   (source)
  • The age old defense bought her a few seconds, but lacked the power to debilitate.†   (source)
  • Her diseases are usually tropical and debilitating, but only occasionally deadly.†   (source)
  • While healing Amos with only a soft and lingering touch, the girl detects an illness in addition to the malignancy, this one not of a physical nature but nonetheless debilitating.†   (source)
  • By leaving early, I wouldn't risk a debilitating injury in my senior year, but I would risk the chance to be a part of one of the greatest college teams of all time and one of the greatest football recruiting classes of all time, especially if we could win a third National Championship to go with the ones in 2006 and 2008.†   (source)
  • I was living in Queens while I wrote Sula, commuting to Manhattan to an office job, leaving my children to child-minders and the public school in the fall and winter, to my parents in the summer, and was so strapped for money that the condition moved from debilitating stress to hilarity.†   (source)
  • The stress of the weekend, with its last-minute planning of the risky attack, has brought on severe diarrhea and a debilitating urinary tract infection.†   (source)
  • The defense had planned to call Singbe the next day, but the slight cold that Covey had caught had degenerated into a deep-fevered, body-shaking, debilitating flu.†   (source)
  • I wasn't against the order itself, which seemed in fact a good idea, to examine the girls regularly, with an eye toward prevention (if we were truly attempting to avoid the trouble with venereal outbreaks that had debilitated whole units of the Imperial Army), but what his order rankled against, which was the very code of all our association, and community.†   (source)
  • Placing those so debilitated in proximity to the Special Action seems warranted by the circumstances.†   (source)
  • And something far more profound and debilitating was occupying my mind in the month of September, long before I had conditioned myself to the isolation of the island and the frustration of the task at hand.†   (source)
  • "Debilitating," he said with a sigh.†   (source)
  • The chemo-therapy is debilitating.
  • The policy, if enacted, will damage and debilitate the economy.
  • We've been trying to understand why in you, there's no debilitating effect.†   (source)
  • And the other four Sherpas on our team were too cold and debilitated from having gone to the summit.†   (source)
  • His once debilitating fear was overshadowed by a far deeper dread.†   (source)
  • I staggered to my feet, the pain attacking me in debilitating waves.†   (source)
  • The combination of the heat and air moisture was debilitating.†   (source)
  • How could he have been excited when his body was debilitated by a gastric disorder?†   (source)
  • And the smell from the toilet was debilitating.†   (source)
  • For better or worse, the long debilitating months of passivity were behind us now.†   (source)
  • But the dramatic and catastrophic injuries in a slaughterhouse are greatly outnumbered by less visible, though no less debilitating, ailments: torn muscles, slipped disks, pinched nerves.†   (source)
  • Hutchison-who had gotten back to camp at 2:00 P.M. and was thus considerably less debilitated than me-then tried to rouse clients and Sherpas from the other tents.†   (source)
  • He didn't like to fly on medication, but a few aspirin would certainly be less debilitating than this raging headache.†   (source)
  • Was I really so debilitated that I had stared into the face of a near stranger and mistaken him for a friend with whom I'd spent the previous six weeks?†   (source)
  • It was a pathetic sight: we were all so debilitated that it took the group an incredibly long time just to descend the few hundred feet to the snow slope immediately below.†   (source)
  • Gau was nearly as debilitated as Fischer and was likewise unable to descend the difficult bands of shale, so his Sherpas sat the Taiwanese climber beside Lopsang and Fischer and then continued down without him.†   (source)
  • A t 5:30, as Lopsang left the South Summit to resume his descent, he turned to see Harris-who must have been severely debilitated, if N his condition when I'd seen him on the South Summit two hours earlier was any indication-plodding slowly up the summit ridge to assist Hall and Hansen.†   (source)
  • Their debilitating skin condition reached down into their joints and made dexterity a difficult prospect.†   (source)
  • Even in the grip of agonizing pain or complete debilitation, most jockeys clung to their illusion of invulnerability.†   (source)
  • He knew from experience that it could take weeks to fully recover from the debilitating effects of a long, drawn-out battle.†   (source)
  • This time she wept with no other emotion than grief, profound, debilitating, humble grief, forgetting all about him.†   (source)
  • Indeed, as I suspected, it was a first heart attack, and had not the paramedic unit arrived so quickly (having stopped for lunch, by chance, a few streets away at the time of the call), the damage to his heart muscle would have been dangerously severe, perhaps forever debilitating.†   (source)
  • Rolling from rooftop to rooftop, building to a crescendo, engulfing the populace in a hypnotic frenzy, the crushing, debilitating, horrifying chant knifed into my soul.†   (source)
  • Those Jews debarking from trains originating in Athens were found by the SS doctors in charge of the selections to be so debilitated that only a little more than one out of ten were sent to the right-hand side of the station ramp—the side assigned to those who were to live and work.†   (source)
  • Illness and debilitation would account for this state, of course—especially during the unspeakable months at Birkenau—but she was certain it was also psychological: the pervasive smell and presence of death caused any generative urge to seem literally obscene, a travesty, and thus—as in the depths of illness—to remain at so low an ebb as to be virtually snuffed out.†   (source)
  • No, perhaps for her sake, toward love, as to something that had undermined and debilitated her.†   (source)
  • There were several ailments, less life-threatening than the cancers, that were thought by many doctors — and by most of the people who were subject to them — to have resulted from exposure to the bomb: several sorts of anemia, liver dysfunction, sexual problems, endocrine disorders, accelerated aging, and the not-quite-really-sick yet undeniable debilitation of which so many complained.†   (source)
  • The debilitated cousin supposes he is " 'normously rich fler."†   (source)
  • I am fearfully exhausted and debilitated by this attack.†   (source)
  • The debilitated cousin (much exhausted by the funeral) and Volumnia are in attendance.†   (source)
  • It is thus that human weakness fails, from its debilitated and imperfect organs.†   (source)
  • 'The debilitated cousin holds that it's sort of thing that's sure tapn slongs votes—giv'n—Mob.†   (source)
  • The debilitated cousin only hopes some fler'll be executed—zample.†   (source)
  • Debilitated cousin thinks—country's going— Dayvle—steeple-chase pace.†   (source)
  • 'His debilitated body shook with an exultation so vehement, so assured, and so malicious that it seemed to have driven off the death waiting for him in that hut.†   (source)
  • And Behrens did not neglect to note that, under such circumstances, one could not entirely dismiss the risk of chronic debilitation in even the most robust constitution.†   (source)
  • Were my hair not white and were I not so debilitated by this malign fever, you would see me prepared to give you satisfaction, man to man, weapon in hand, for the injury I have unwittingly inflicted upon you, and for the additional injury caused by my traveling companion, for which I likewise must take responsibility.†   (source)
  • He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.†   (source)
  • Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream The debilitated old house in the city, wrapped in its mantle of soot, and leaning heavily on the crutches that had partaken of its decay and worn out with it, never knew a healthy or a cheerful interval, let what would betide.†   (source)
  • This whole costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button.†   (source)
  • I forgit myself when I take such an interest in your breakfast, as to wish your frame, exhausted by the debilitating effects of prodigygality, to be stimilated by the 'olesome nourishment of your forefathers.†   (source)
  • Lady Dedlock asks on sitting down to dinner, still deadly pale (and quite an illustration of the debilitated cousin's text), whether he is gone out?†   (source)
  • The majority incline to the debilitated cousin's sentiment, which is in few words—"no business—Rouncewell's fernal townsman."†   (source)
  • "I have had the honour of being employed in high families before, and you have no idea—come, I'll go so far as to say not even YOU have any idea, sir," this to the debilitated cousin, "what games goes on!"†   (source)
  • A bow of homage to Sir Leicester, a bow of gallantry to Volumnia, and a bow of recognition to the debilitated Cousin, to whom it airily says, "You are a swell about town, and you know me, and I know you."†   (source)
  • The debilitated cousin, more debilitated by the dreariness of the place, gets into a fearful state of depression, groaning under penitential sofa-pillows in his gunless hours and protesting that such fernal old jail's—nough t'sew fler up—frever.†   (source)
  • Sir Leicester Dedlock attends the ceremony in person; strictly speaking, there are only three other human followers, that is to say, Lord Doodle, William Buffy, and the debilitated cousin (thrown in as a make-weight), but the amount of inconsolable carriages is immense.†   (source)
  • The debilitated cousin says of her that she's beauty nough—tsetup shopofwomen—but rather larming kind—remindingmanfact—inconvenient woman—who WILL getoutofbedandbawthstahlishment—Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • But it is dangerous to make these alterations on the simple authority of a few individuals, or even of certain classes of men; for where the understanding of an Author is not convinced, or his feelings altered, this cannot be done without great injury to himself: for his own feelings are his stay and support, and, if he sets them aside in one instance, he may be induced to repeat this act till his mind loses all confidence in itself, and becomes utterly debilitated.†   (source)
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