afflicted

• She is as delicately afflicted, as properly distressed, as might be expected; indeed, so faithfully, and with such perfect belief in her own powers, does she perform the pensive rôle_, that she fails not to create real admiration in the hearts of her beholders. —  Molly Bawn
• Inside the concourse, fringing the great crowds, lay the afflicted--on litters, on reclining chairs, on blankets spread over the ground; standing and kneeling, men, women and children from all lands and of all stations, pallid-faced, emaciated, suffering, dying, brought here to supplicate for help when all other help has failed them Seigneur, nous vous adorons!_" chanted a priest with golden voice and ten thousand tongues responded Seigneur, nous vous adorons! —  Possessed
• Oh! how comforting is the thought that in all our afflictions Christ was afflicted, and the angel of His presence strengthened Him. —  Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. ; Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.
• And this is the principal symptom in little girls thus afflicted--the discharge. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• Little did I think that it would be to the boy who was left destitute that I should pour out my soul when afflicted, and find in him that sympathy which I have long lost, by the removal of those who were once my friends! —  Jacob Faithful

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