nervous prostration

The emperor would be in a state of nervous prostration for a week.

I had found my way to the free public library, and was reading myself into nervous prostration.

After such a period he was left exhausted, sometimes near to nervous prostration.

Well, let me tell you it was a wonder I didn't fall down on the spot in a state of nervous prostration.

And he wouldn't lift a finger to keep the boy from working himself into nervous prostration.

The episode left him in a condition of nervous prostration, the more so as he by now had five children to support.

"You look as though you are on the verge of nervous prostration."

"Of nervous prostration following a great loss or waste of blood."

"Not unless this old crate falls apart from nervous prostration."

A note of three words does not suffice to keep me from having nervous prostrations."

He died in 1880 in an asylum after a short period of nervous prostration.

As for myself, I was worn out, on the verge of nervous prostration, fit for nothing.

Look at those Austrians; they've got nervous prostration of the worst sort."

"If he stayed below with us I fear I should have a return of my nervous prostration."

"He's shipping an airship, all taken to pieces, and he has nervous prostration for fear it will be broken.

Lewis Tappan died of nervous prostration in 1880.

"Then he must have nervous prostration," said Grundy.

I shall have nervous prostration within a fortnight."

Helen is in perfect physical condition and if she shows any evidence of nervous prostration or over-work, I cannot discover it."

Total nervous prostration combined with persecution mania.

The New York Times reported the cause as "insomnia, melancholia, and nervous prostration."

King Oldorin of Perivor appeared to be in a state verging on nervous prostration.

Through carefully-preserved woods they had marched, frightening the birds and driving keepers into fits of nervous prostration.

I got nervous prostration.

His companion suffered nervous prostration.