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  • On each side of the family he had an uncle with the same affliction.†   (source)
  • If the story had been about anyone else, it would have been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate—sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.†   (source)
  • The first character was simple enough, the English letter B. Louie knew that niju meant twenty and ku meant nine, though he didn't know that ku carried another meaning: pain, calamity, affliction.†   (source)
  • We had a citywide emergency on our hands, as there is no greater affliction for the southern mind than people up north coming down to fix our way of life.†   (source)
  • Some stared at the afflicted child with morbid fascination, but most turned away.†   (source)
  • What so of Divinity, he seemed to be thinking, would devise a world in which an aging man's malady afflicts the very attribute that has set him apart from his fellow men and elevated him the eyes of all?†   (source)
  • The drug addiction that plagues Jackson has afflicted their older daughter for her entire adult life.†   (source)
  • Toni has been afflicted by a stammer ever since he got sprayed with the mangled innards of one of our boys during a shell attack.†   (source)
  • Still, it pleased me that this pious baker, as plain as a shadow and of solid health, and the Communist biology teacher and science devotee, the walking mountain on stilts, sadly afflicted with polio in his childhood, carried the same name.†   (source)
  • This one massive miscarriage of justice had afflicted the whole community with despair and made it hard for me to be dispassionate.†   (source)
  • He said it like it was an affliction.†   (source)
  • And I'll go and check Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions.... Maybe there's something in there about curse scars...†   (source)
  • Clamp it to his heart and wait for the goddess to thrust her fiery hand through its planes and burn away his afflictions.†   (source)
  • No one ever discovered what happened to him to cause this strange affliction.†   (source)
  • "In his present affliction, I don't think—" He turned the handle of his cup toward me and began again, "I'd like to be a peacemaker."†   (source)
  • " The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted ..."' Pastor Merrill read to us.†   (source)
  • Ice fell away from his hand, which rose up to tremble in the air for a moment, afflicted and blue, before coming to rest on my arm.†   (source)
  • Despite the tender mother's stomach that had afflicted her these past two moons, Dany had dined on bowls of half-clotted blood to accustom herself to the taste, and Irri made her chew strips of dried horseflesh until her jaws were aching.†   (source)
  • When a man was afflicted with swelling in the stomach and the limbs he was not allowed to die in the house.†   (source)
  • But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.†   (source)
  • None of this was particularly an affliction; or rather, it appeared so only in retrospect, once a solution had been found.†   (source)
  • And bless our sister in her weakness and affliction.†   (source)
  • I did, however, care about my father, and if he was afflicted with a bit of faulty wiring in his brain, I suddenly understood that he'd somehow formed a set of rules for life, rules that helped him fit into the world.†   (source)
  • It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me —jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy—pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.†   (source)
  • With the pain comes another pain, a pain far greater than any physical ailment I could ever be afflicted with: the memory of the hours before.†   (source)
  • All around the ballroom, afflicted guests were starting to regain consciousness.†   (source)
  • Adam found himself afflicted with his own Never Knows.†   (source)
  • I didn't doubt now that he could have found a buyer for Carrie, afflicted as she was.†   (source)
  • And like Mars and Lusus, HYperion is afflicted with its Deep Ice Ages, although here the periodicity is spread to thirty-seven million years by the long ellipse of the currently absent binary dwarf.†   (source)
  • He was thirteen and had many of the same afflictions you named with your dog.†   (source)
  • It's true that in the years since my mizuage, Hatsumomo had gradually been afflicted by some sort of disease of the character—if such a thing exists.†   (source)
  • I'll say it plain: he was not a man of imagination, so he wasn't afflicted by suspicions and worries.†   (source)
  • For his father had a point; the only person who didn't take Gogol seriously, the only person who tormented him, the only person chronically aware of and afflicted by the embarrassment of his name, the only person who constantly questioned it and wished it were otherwise, was Gogol.†   (source)
  • The passage speaks of the cup of the Lord's fury, and the context has to do with sons who have lost their way, who are afflicted, who may yet succumb to desolation and destruction.†   (source)
  • Stigma, March says, keeps families from accepting a loved one's illness and seeking treatment for them, and it also marginalizes those who are afflicted.†   (source)
  • Have you ever felt as if God were afflicting you?†   (source)
  • White folks is a miracle of affliction, say Sofia.†   (source)
  • These people who suffer from this affliction are prone to violence and unpredictable behavior.†   (source)
  • Olmsted returned to Chicago accompanied by his usual troika of affliction and found the place galvanized, Burnham everywhere at once.†   (source)
  • She tried to thank me, but the affliction pulled at her mouth and made it hard to figure her words.†   (source)
  • It is of the greatest regret that we do not have the knowledge whereby we might cure these unfortunate afflicted.†   (source)
  • I was struck through with my own wayward brand of reverence: praise be the lord of all plagues and secret afflictions!†   (source)
  • This foreman was fair and strong and had a stark, afflicted countenance.†   (source)
  • This disease is generated only if an afflicted male marries a woman carrying the recessive gene.†   (source)
  • Ferula took him by the arm and led him out of that afflicted room.†   (source)
  • He was puzzled, because he knew that she did not cry easily for any affliction of body or soul.†   (source)
  • The soldiers were likewise afflicted; their curses echoed as they pressed sleeves and scarves over their noses.†   (source)
  • Her greatest affliction now was the restless longing that so often threatened to overwhelm her.†   (source)
  • The melancholy degeneration of the Great Houses has afflicted me at last, perhaps.†   (source)
  • The next step is coma, and then, unless the afflicted party is quickly evacuated to lower altitude, death.†   (source)
  • During all our years growing up together, he never complained about his affliction and I never gave it any mind.†   (source)
  • May it comfort you to know that in our time of need, we in Washington are developing programs, both to support the families affected by this horrid affliction and the children blessed enough to survive it.†   (source)
  • Any fears I had that some deeper trouble was afflicting the Ford were laid to rest when I tried the ignition and heard the engine come to life with a healthy murmur.†   (source)
  • Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow and pain.†   (source)
  • It towered over the town, more like an affliction than a blessing, and made everything seem, by comparison with itself, wretched and makeshift indeed.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Camfed has avoided the cult of personality that afflicts some aid groups.†   (source)
  • None of the passengers had been spared seasickness, but the Englishman's affliction was severe.†   (source)
  • Not that the truth concerning "poor Bonnie's afflictions" was in the least a secret; everyone knew she had been an on-and-off psychiatric patient the last half-dozen years.†   (source)
  • The Countess looked rotten the minute she left the carriage, with her too big painted mouth and her little piggy painted eyes and her powdered skin and ...and ...and ... Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own.†   (source)
  • This fear of heights is an affliction.†   (source)
  • If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help— Simon knew he couldn't pray.†   (source)
  • Deets himself had fallen short a few times over the years and had felt the Captain's displeasure afflict him like a bruise.†   (source)
  • But Amanda Meacham has—er—disabilities and afflictions that make it difficult for her to get along.†   (source)
  • " 'Affliction is the good man's shining time,' " she wrote, quoting a favorite line from the English poet Edward Young.†   (source)
  • These are local afflictions.†   (source)
  • The thesis was to be an "interpretive anthropology of affliction," combining evidence from ethnography, history, epidemiology, and economics.†   (source)
  • As Yossarian stared, the chaplain elevated his gaze toward Yossarian beatifically, pressed his fingers down over his eyeballs in a manner of affliction, peered upward again toward Yossarian searchingly, and bowed his head, concluding what Yossarian took to be a climactic part of the funeral rite.†   (source)
  • I do not know if there is a clinical definition for what afflicted her but I learned what it was over time.†   (source)
  • The affliction was particularly troublesome because I believed that, at the age of twenty-eight, I was finally ready to begin an adult life of my own.†   (source)
  • They could have something, an affliction, that's beyond their control.†   (source)
  • It was an obnoxious habit most trial lawyers were afflicted with, and Ian had suffered through the routine before.†   (source)
  • He was often afflicted with writer's block, and it seemed as though hanging out with Blomkvist and Berger and the others was having a beneficial effect on him.†   (source)
  • His doctor has prescribed injections of penicillin and a diet of liquefied food to make his afflictions more bearable.†   (source)
  • In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection.†   (source)
  • I was fascinated with the miseries of women who had suffered and borne such afflictions.†   (source)
  • A serious affliction.†   (source)
  • For all of you who love your children know that affliction, too, can be a means of evidencing your care for them.†   (source)
  • It was his personal affliction.†   (source)
  • Such high rates of fire hadn't afflicted any place on Earth since World War II.†   (source)
  • If it is an affliction, it is as you said: The gods know me so well they can predict my behavior.†   (source)
  • Later, when I developed more confidence in my immunity to his affliction, I became interested in this debris in a more positive way and began to jot down the fragments amorphically, that is, without regard to form, in the order in which they occurred to me.†   (source)
  • Above all else, he had to show control, for what afflicted him was so uncontrollable.†   (source)
  • Affliction.†   (source)
  • Javier's affliction, at least, has a name, even if it has no certain cure.†   (source)
  • As if afflicted by a disease of the nerves, they made strange, unmistakable, and yet obscure gestures with their lips, tongues, jaws, eyes, hands, and fingers.†   (source)
  • No brightness so deadly had ever afflicted them before.†   (source)
  • We must redouble our efforts to raise funds to provide care for the afflicted and finance the research to end it.†   (source)
  • It was because my father was a careful and pious man with a keen eye for an Offence that we used to have more slaughterings and burnings than anyone else: but any suggestion that we were more afflicted with Offences than other people hurt and angered him.†   (source)
  • They finally said, with hard pride, that she was afflicted with a "Korean fever" that no doctor in America was able to cure.†   (source)
  • How in the Lord's world did you come up with that affliction, Ruby Helen?†   (source)
  • S. shook his head, beaming away at me, and said cleverness was my permanent affliction, my wooden leg, and that it was in the worst possible taste to draw the group's attention to it.†   (source)
  • I am the more thankful to her for all her infinite bounty to such a poor mortal wretch as I. For you must know, Sirs, I am a man under most strange afflictions, and none but the Queen's grace would have had patience with me.†   (source)
  • His daughter was twenty now, and soon would be thirty, and soon after, the afflictions came like rain.†   (source)
  • When Ira was nearing six, my mother was afflicted with consumption, and was soon so feeble that she could not rise from her bed.†   (source)
  • She awoke groggy and agitated and afflicted with a migraine that no amount of medication or caffeine would alleviate.†   (source)
  • louder and louder as the lines were wrung from him and dashed out against the harsh wall of air around him, as if he dared God to hear him and resent his resentment: When I had my defiance given The sun stood trembling in heaven The moon that glowed remote below Became leprous and white as snow And every soul of men on the earth Felt affliction and sorrow and sickness and dearth God flamed in my path and the Sun was hot With the bows of my mind and the arrows of thought My bowstring fierce with ardor breathes My arrows glow in their golden sheaves My brothers and father march before The heavens drop with human gore— "Stop!"†   (source)
  • Early on, I had contracted that dread affliction of oldest or only children—I lived for the absolute approval of my parents.†   (source)
  • I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent— and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens.†   (source)
  • That is only because they are afflicted with language and ignorance.†   (source)
  • Actually, I was very much aware of the novel, but the petty spirit which so often afflicts the unpublished writer allowed me to harbor only a grudge for what I suspected was the book's well-deserved critical approval.†   (source)
  • It was in the quilted bed in the front room of this house where he lay in so much pain (probably from the affliction thatbrought on his death, an infected appendix) that he once told Mother, a little girl, to bring the kitchen knife and plunge it into his side; she, hypnotized, almost believed she must obey.†   (source)
  • KATE [FLARING]: How can you discipline an afflicted child?†   (source)
  • "There's a very good chance that if you have children," the doctor said, "they'll be afflicted.†   (source)
  • She gave a frightened cry and murmured: "Mighty protectress of the sorrowful, chaste Mother of God, help of the afflicted, shelter of the universe ..."†   (source)
  • Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them, according to their several necessities; giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions.†   (source)
  • "Of your affliction," Mrs. Connin said icily.†   (source)
  • How long is this affliction going to last?†   (source)
  • While taking the test, she was afflicted with a toothache and a throbbing head.
    afflicted = caused to suffer
  • Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.   (source)
    afflicted = suffering
  • Perhaps he had inherited her affliction.†   (source)
    affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering
  • Hundreds of their ships afflict us now, sailing out of the Shield Islands and some of the rocks around the Arbor.†   (source)
    afflict = cause suffering
  • Gabriel had never been able to sleep on airplanes, an affliction that not even the fully reclining seat of the Gulfstream could cure.†   (source)
    affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering
  • His wife, a well-preserved woman with afflicted eyelids and expression, scolded his mistake.†   (source)
  • When they know of my affliction, they can barely talk to me!†   (source)
  • Still, I had never intended it to be a killing affliction.†   (source)
  • Mercy certainly did not consider herself afflicted.†   (source)
  • People in the lane say the fit is an affliction and now I know what affliction means.†   (source)
  • Granny wasn't the only one afflicted by this problem.†   (source)
  • Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you.†   (source)
  • I did all the hoeing myself, to spare his afflicted hands.†   (source)
  • Dan Needham suffered from my mother's affliction: he, too, couldn't keep his hands off Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • "With Alexander gone and you afflicted with palsy," the chef said, "what is to become of me?"†   (source)
  • These things run in families; her mother was afflicted as well.†   (source)
  • Yet TK is not a germ; it is as much a part of the afflicted person as the color of his eyes.†   (source)
  • The afflicted did not need your compassion, but your skill.†   (source)
  • Malachy wants to know what an affliction is.†   (source)
  • Such affliction I saw on her face I briefly believed myself dead.†   (source)
  • Women help each other; caring for the afflicted is their sphere.†   (source)
  • Despite the tragedy afflicting me, despite not feeling well, I let out a laugh.†   (source)
  • Many are the afflictions of the righteous, and the Lord delivers him out of them all.†   (source)
  • I sometimes wonder which of these will afflict me, later, because I know one of them will.†   (source)
  • "Woe follows woe, one affliction treads upon the heel of another," she wrote.†   (source)
  • Asha had suffered the same affliction; perhaps that had been what drew them together.†   (source)
  • It seemed the whole encampment was afflicted.†   (source)
  • To actually expand resources to a problem that afflicts the populations we serve.†   (source)
  • There's no reason to believe that Lady Roslin was so afflicted, though.†   (source)
  • How—how long have you had this ....affliction?†   (source)
  • Do you think the gods have afflicted me?†   (source)
  • Build us up where we're torn down ...Bless the sick and the afflicted ...†   (source)
  • Or could he have a forme fruste of the fever that afflicted Sister Anjali?†   (source)
  • Sitting here in Renny's cramped but tidy office, I fear I am afflicted.†   (source)
  • And if I desired to succor the afflicted I would have joined you in Holy Orders.†   (source)
  • Annabeth was afraid her mother might suddenly appear and curse her with some terrible affliction.†   (source)
  • Support my father in this deep and irreparable affliction!" he wrote in his diary.†   (source)
  • The Arlington ceremony did not provide closure for the afflicted Strank family.†   (source)
  • I said, I suffer from a rare condition that afflicts Mediterranean men.†   (source)
  • The Archdean could hear absolutely nothing, and had been so afflicted since he was eighty-five or so†   (source)
  • "another furnace of affliction," yet his spirits were high.†   (source)
  • All men are so afflicted, from time to time.†   (source)
  • In the first weeks my family accepted my behavior as a post-rape, post-hospital affliction.†   (source)
  • No man would want a woman with such an affliction.†   (source)
  • Dina suffered the same affliction, though for different reasons.†   (source)
  • These were "the only affliction" of his present life.†   (source)
  • God bless you and support you under your heavy affliction.†   (source)
  • How intensified, magnified, really vain all attempt at expression becomes in the afflicted!†   (source)
  • I'm as sensible to this affliction as anyone else, it hurts me to look at the girl.†   (source)
  • Lustig sat down, and the three men let the wonder and terror of the thought afflict them.†   (source)
  • The radio afflicted Sophie with terror and desire.†   (source)
  • It was the witness, one afflicted with all the hurt and burden and grandeur of memory.†   (source)
  • "Go on, go on," he said, "I want to hear more about her affliction.†   (source)
  • "Lord," the preacher said, "we pray for somebody in affliction who isn't here to testify.†   (source)
  • "A terrible affliction, you will agree, Colonel," I continued.†   (source)
  • KATE: It was not our affliction I meant you to write about, Captain.†   (source)
  • And I realized with horror how much I resented her burdensome affliction.†   (source)
  • Cure the afflicted woman with the hangover!" and began to beat his knee with his fist.†   (source)
  • 'Tis a most grievous affliction of the skin, young master, that will leave you pockmarked and more gruesome even than you are now —' 'Watch who you're calling gruesome!' said Ron, his ears turning red.†   (source)
  • In all cases the parents of children afflicted with vomiting or diarrhea, had rushed the kids to the hospital, believing them to be suffering internal bleeding.†   (source)
  • But Saboor, like many of my countrymen, had the affliction of pride, an affliction both misbegotten and unshakable.†   (source)
  • Their only drinking water came from a reservoir fed by runoff from rice paddies fertilized with human excrement, and to avoid dying of thirst, the POWs had to drink it, leaving 90 percent of them afflicted with dysentery.†   (source)
  • Liet-Kynes had only to watch and nudge and spy upon the Harkonnens ....until the day his planet was afflicted by a Hero.†   (source)
  • The Monster Words (Vic had originally dubbed them the Monster Catechism, but Tad had trouble with that word, so it had been shortened) had come about in late spring, when Tad began to be afflicted by bad dreams and night fears.†   (source)
  • And like Mars and Lusus, HYPerion is afflicted with its Deep Ice Ages, although here the periodicity is spread to thirty-seven million years by the long ellipse of the currently absent binary dwarf.†   (source)
  • Every morning, as soon as she woke up, she ran her mind over her body, to see where she hurt and what new afflictions she had developed.†   (source)
  • The afflicted character can have any number of problems for which heart disease provides a suitable emblem: bad love, loneliness, cruelty, pederasty, disloyalty, cowardice, lack of determination.†   (source)
  • Meme showed no signs of affliction.†   (source)
  • We cannot remain indifferent to the grievous blows that have afflicted so many good Dominican homes ...†   (source)
  • The Dragon Riders were created thousands of years earlier in the aftermath of the elves' great war with the dragons, in order to ensure that hostilities would never again afflict their two races.†   (source)
  • As far as he knew, he was the only living person to have survived a curse like Voldemort's; it was highly unlikely, therefore, that he would find his symptoms listed in Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions.†   (source)
  • She vaguely knew that divorce was an affliction, but she did not regard it as a proper subject, and gave it no thought.†   (source)
  • I wonder how safe it can be for a man trying to reconnect with Tchaikovsky as drug dealers, prostitutes and hustlers work streets teeming with the lame and the afflicted.†   (source)
  • In spite of time, of the superimposed Periods of mourning, and her accumulated afflictions, Ursula resisted growing old.†   (source)
  • But an old antagonism afflicted Emily.†   (source)
  • With a groan, Eragon hobbled to the wash closet for his daily ablutions, like an old man afflicted by rheumatism.†   (source)
  • I don't think we quite understood all the ways her presence had afflicted us until long after she'd left, when things that we hadn't realized were ailing slowly began to heal.†   (source)
  • Afflicted with palsy!†   (source)
  • Beyond that, though, there is the broader sense of the residents of Harlem, where the story is set, and by extension of black America, as afflicted, as having drunk from that cup of trembling.†   (source)
  • Katherine Tyler, thou art here accused that not having the fear of God before thine eyes thou hast had familiarity with Satan the grand enemy of God and man, and that by his instigation and help thou hast in a preternatural way afflicted and done harm to the bodies and estates of sundry of His Majesty's subjects, in the third year of His Majesty's reign, for which by the law of God and the law of the Colony thou deservest to die.†   (source)
  • " And if that morsel could not satisfy our hunger to be comforted, Pastor Merrill led us further into Lamentations: " Tor the Lord will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.'†   (source)
  • His common sense told him that he would hsive to find a woman, and once he had made up his mind, the terrible anxiety that afflicted him began to ebb and his fury seemed to abate.†   (source)
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