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Definition
cause suffering — such as illness, pain, or unhappiness
- In the midst of her despair, a new affliction overtook her.Chapters 27-28 (46% in)
- "Now I recollect," said the afflicted old father; "my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!"Chapters 5-6 (40% in)
- Nothing is easier than to begin with fair promises and assurances of nothing to fear; but when poor, silly folks, like my husband there, have been persuaded to tell all they know, the promises and assurances of safety are quickly forgotten; and at some moment when nobody is expecting it, behold trouble and misery, and all sorts of persecutions, are heaped on the unfortunate wretches, who cannot even see whence all their afflictions come.Chapters 25-26 (83% in)
- "And God has poured balm into your wounds, as he does into those of all who are in affliction?" said Monte Cristo inquiringly.Chapters 49-50 (69% in)
- But there was no look calculated to reassure her; all it seemed to say was, "It is not only your reserve which afflicts me."Chapters 57-58 (86% in)
- She soon whispered to her husband, "I think it would be better for me to retire, with your permission, for the sight of me appears still to afflict your mother-in-law."Chapters 71-72 (54% in)
- And then the baroness remembered that she had felt no pity for poor Mercedes, who had been afflicted with as severe a blow through her husband and son.Chapters 99-100 (15% in)
- For some temperaments work is a remedy for all afflictions.Chapters 103-104 (41% in)
- "Still, baron," said Monte Cristo, "family griefs, or indeed any other affliction which would crush a man whose child was his only treasure, are endurable to a millionaire.Chapters 103-104 (67% in)
- It is natural enough; this strange chain of domestic afflictions, followed by the no less strange death of his daughter"— "Strange?Chapters 109-110 (18% in)
- There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathize with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.Chapters 111-112 (0% in)
There are no more uses of "afflict" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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