Suffering

Examples

• There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The exquisite pain and suffering endured previous to the use of anaesthetics often caused death by exhaustion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But let us take a decided course, and put an end to any discomfort you may be suffering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some of my suffering is very acute. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Only those who know of the suffering endured in former times can fully appreciate the decrease in pain brought about by the proper use of narcotics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Her face was like a small, fine mask, sinister too, masked with unwilling suffering. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. Claypole, without making any further change in his position than suffering his legs to reach the ground, gazed at the beadle in drunken terror. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• We will not wring the public bosom, with the delineation of such suffering! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• 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.
• Her hope had been to avert the wrath of Heaven from a House that had long been hateful to the suffering many. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She was evidently in a condition of great suffering, and Tom often heard her praying, as she wavered and trembled, and seemed about to fall down. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Do not forget the deadly sin, do not forget the appointed discovery, do not forget the appointed suffering. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I answer that it was because I could see his mother's face in his, and that for her dear sake there was no end to my long-suffering. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She was hurt and angry; but repressed herself in consideration of his suffering, and of his being her brother's friend. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their sharpness, had been gradually restored to him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Her theme was their wants, which she sought to supply; their sufferings, which she longed to alleviate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You laughed--laughed in your daughter's face, where death had already set his hand--at our sufferings, then. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I could not see how human beings could enjoy the sufferings of beasts, and often of men, as they seemed to do on these occasions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Pray that my sufferings may soon cease. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Never, if Saint Antoine knew his own sufferings, insults, and wrongs! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And what opiate for his severe sufferings--what object for his strong passions--had he sought there? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We are all more or less subject to bodily sufferings. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I cannot bear to see the sufferings of others. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Regretting that all my efforts for alleviating the sufferings of wounded men left upon the battle-field have been rendered nugatory, I remain, &c. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I am content to suffer alone, while my sufferings shall endure: when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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