mortal sickness

Come, you have a better eye than mine for mortal sickness.

The loneliness, the sadness, has made living a mortal sickness.

The decline of a State is not equivalent to a mortal sickness therein.

The privileges of mortal sickness had almost been forced upon her, what she thought of them might never be told.

Long before he reached the western tower he could smell the stink of mortal sickness.

The expression of his face was not so much of terror as of mortal sickness.

Is this a mortal sickness?

A few who were elderly or worn with mortal sickness died with smiles on their lips; and miracles happened along the flux lines.

The story of Ciaran's mortal sickness and penitential pilgrimage home to Aberdaron was known to all.

With other business over, Derlington set off for Ireland, but had not gone far from London, when he went down with a mortal sickness.

By the last week of August the mortal sickness in the wards had become so general that he could no longer hope to pray individually with the dying.

A friend of mine read a pugilistic novel called "Rodney Stone" to a famous Australian prize-fighter, stretched upon a bed of mortal sickness.

The last days of her life were devoted to smoothing the pillow of mortal sickness for her beloved brother the Reverend John Templer.

Recorded in the writing is a description of "the Order of what the clerics of any city ought to do when their bishop falls into a mortal sickness."

M'Guire half unconsciously fetched it out; and looking on that black continent at arm's length, withered inwardly and felt his features sharpen as with mortal sickness. '

So Jaka began his plotting, thinking of how he might turn the mortal sickness he felt festering within his broken heart to some advantage over the stubborn girl's willpower.

She felt she could pay any price for one more glimpse of him, and she almost hoped that some mortal sickness would strike the lonely captain on the bridge and delay departure.

And her nurse stays near her, who with very wondrous craft sought secretly through all the town, so that no one knew it, until she found a woman sick of a mortal sickness without cure.

Emergency measures, however, are of only temporary value, for the present depression is a sign of the mortal sickness of the whole capitalist system, and this sickness cannot be cured by the application of salves.

Nature had meant him to be amiable, kindly, unembittered, circumstances had so deformed him that he turned against his nature once, and fatally, and he was all too well aware of his mortal sickness.

When the body becomes a burden, through mortal sickness, it is a relief to the spirit to lay it aside; and for a Christian, who longs to be with Jesus, to lay it aside is a joy.

I was in the service of the prior of Hyde Abbey, a lay clerk, when this mortal sickness came on me, and I took this vow of mine to spend my remaining days in the canonry of Aberdaron.

He returned to China and, when plague broke out in Manchuria, went to Harbin, where a great Chinese physician, Dr Wu Lien-teh, succeeded in staying the spread of a mortal sickness which seemed to threaten the whole world.