Symptoms

Examples

• Do you see no symptoms there? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The next morning produced no abatement in these happy symptoms. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Dr. Bangs came, said Beth had symptoms of the fever, but he thought she would have it lightly, though he looked sober over the Hummel story. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My left arm, though it presented no bad symptoms, took, in the natural course, so long to heal that I was still unable to get a coat on. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The advice was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head ached acutely. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The old pain over the heart and the other symptoms of the illness at Grimsby returned, and Anne was confined to her bed in the cottage. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Within twenty-four hours I was in his sick-room, and was relieved to find that there was nothing formidable in his symptoms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• My fears for Adrian were ceaseless; August had come; and the symptoms of plague encreased rapidly in London. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The conversation exhibiting these unequivocal symptoms of verging on the personal, Mr. Pickwick deemed it a fit point at which to interpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Because I am so glad to see you,' replied Job Trotter, gradually releasing Mr. Weller, as the first symptoms of his pugnacity disappeared. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But this was enough to wear off the shyness on her side, and any symptoms of mortified pride and vanity on his. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At Grimsby the first serious symptoms of illness had shown themselves in Anne. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At last a mitigation of the patient's most urgent symptoms (acute pain is one of its accompaniments) liberated me, and I set out homeward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She is repressing symptoms favourable to the fit when she seems to take alarm at something and vanishes down the stairs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• All the dancing girls felt the symptoms, but Eustacia most of all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They are extremely important as symptoms, as milestones, and as instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Symptoms of a lumbering coquetry became visible in her, and Archer found the strength to break in: But Madame Olenska--has she gone to Newport too? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Could there be finer symptoms? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Still, new symptoms may arise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Circumstances had called me to London; here I heard talk that symptoms of the plague had occurred in hospitals of that city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was consumption in my father's family, two of his brothers having died of that disease, which made my symptoms more alarming. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She did not hope; and therefore she neither endeavoured to read the physician's countenance, nor to watch for symptoms of recovery. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Do you think I show symptoms of yellow fever or cholera, that you are making post mortem arrangements with such zeal? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Inject under the skin of the arms, legs, and over the stomach every hour until the symptoms are relieved. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Mr. Sam was one of the objects of her aversion, and the more so because he showed serious symptoms of an aim at her hand. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fever and inflammatory symptoms set in, and Mrs. Bute was forced to leave Sussex for Hampshire. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It wanted five minutes to twelve, when the premonitory symptoms of the working of the laudanum first showed themselves to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Dr. Bain, I know, believed that my symptoms bordered on a decline and he wished me to try Italy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• As the fire augmented, symptoms of it became soon apparent in the chamber, where Ivanhoe was watched and tended by the Jewess Rebecca. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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