Suffers
[sʌfəz]
Examples
- Each long hour was counted, and He suffers was the burthen of all her thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is she who remains and suffers--and has the leisure to think, and brood, and remember. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The more he suffers, the more averse he will be to me, having made me the principal representative of the great occasion of his suffering. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I wonder whether he suffers in his conscience because of that habit, said Dorothea; I wonder whether he wishes he could leave it off. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The innocent suffers; but she whom I thought amiable and good has not betrayed the trust I reposed in her, and I am consoled. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- One suffers little because all of us have been formed to resist suffering. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is not suspected that the revenue suffers by this confidence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Suffers much from headaches. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The old girl promptly makes a sign of entreaty to him to say nothing; assenting with a nod, he suffers them to enter as he shuts the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My poor father no longer suffers, or is scarcely sensible. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But when one man kills, wounds, beats, or defames another, though he to whom the injury is done suffers, he who does it receives no benefit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In countries where the rigour of the law suffers no poachers, the licensed hunter is not in a much better condition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Of course you see that she really suffers, when Mr Boffin shows how he is changing? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But the piano suffers for want of use. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The tax made upon the nervous system by the defective eye lessens the supply of energy available for other bodily use, and the general health suffers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- You will find how very much he suffers. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Although the raw meat treated with the acid turns slightly pale on the surface it suffers no change whatever internally. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Although he suffers from a cold, We joy to hear him speak, For words of wisdom from him fall, In spite of croak or squeak. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The world suffers for it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She suffers him to stand by the door and asks him what he wants. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The benefit of the person who does the injury is often equal to the loss of him who suffers it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By a subsequent statute, the master suffers six months imprisonment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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