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Most like a brother's, watch'd his bed of sickness,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various
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[Lu] Wan [to the capital, Lu] Wan feigned sickness,
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Thus did the joyful spirit of this dear friend at last take flight for the Heavenly Country, when, as he said himself in his sickness,
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Often when I speak enthusiastically of something in history or in poetry, I receive no response, and I feel that I must change the subject and return to the commonest topics, such as the weather, dressmaking, sports, sickness,
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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Y: But We cast him forth on the naked shore in a state of sickness,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Thus, in the southern district of the island of Ceram, when a whole village suffers from sickness,
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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The purchaser may go into one shop and purchase furniture for his house; stove to warm it, flour, groceries, and potatoes to satisfy his wants; medicines to heal all sickness,
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Cabin show, so dad had to stay in his stateroom on account of sickness,
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But after a short conflict between his eager desire to believe she was in his neighbourhood, guarding, like an angel of mercy, the couch of his sickness,
The Waverley 1877
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I then observed that I was not a hard drinker, but being a total stranger and liable to sudden sickness,
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