Sufferer

Examples

• I am such a sufferer that I hardly dare hope to enjoy much of your society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mrs. Norris, however, as most attached to Maria, was really the greatest sufferer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In that case there is no need for me to write about the trumpery scandal by which I was the sufferer--the innocent sufferer, I positively assert. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mrs. Pryor, bending over the pale little sufferer, was now smoothing the hair under her cap, and gently raising her pillow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There is a restlessness in all disorders of the mind, which the sufferer imagines can be best relieved by exercise. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The same energy turns the electric fan, and with kindly service soothes the weary sufferer, and at another place remorselessly takes the life of the condemned criminal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A generous rivalry, no doubt, as to which should be most attentive to the dear sufferer in the state bedroom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I am very ill, Harriette, said the dear sufferer, with encouraging firmness, holding out her hand to me; but don't frighten yourself. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There sat a silent sufferer--a nervous, melancholy man. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Speaking as a sufferer by both, I don't know that I wouldn't as soon have the Merdle lot as your lot. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• How gladly Gerty would have welcomed the ministry of healing: how willingly have soothed the sufferer back to tolerance of life! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Yet, as great a sufferer as Port Royal was, more houses were left standing therein than on the whole island besides. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and herself. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A yokefellow is not a companion; he or she is a fellow-sufferer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Sufferer, faint not through terror of this burning evidence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They were two solitary sufferers, or connected only by Fanny's consciousness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I see men here going about in the streets who look ground down by some pinching sorrow or care--who are not only sufferers but haters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Oh, my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• We clustered together a group of wretched sufferers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have also said that if they do occur (not that I admit it), the fault lies with the sufferers themselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He can no longer be a fit subject for pity; the survivors are the greatest sufferers, and for them time is the only consolation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Typist: Rachel