"Illness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his death-bed, Sir Robert Peel, who only knew of his illness, not of his imminent danger, wrote to him a noble and touching letter, announcing that a pension was ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... to her to call and inquire whether there was any truth in the report of Mrs. Warwick's illness. Mrs. Warwick! She ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... the regular army, retired on account of illness,—brave, intelligent, cultivated, a Churchman undeveloped in spiritual sense, rough in his sports, proud as a Roman, his whole being, indeed, built up on manly, Roman pride,—a Greenland voyager, and better read than any man I have met ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various
... from the mechanical laboratory funds, and guaranteed by the writer personally, and another aid whose services were paid for partly by the Institute and partly as above. The pay of the superintendent was similarly assured. This scheme had been barely entered upon when the illness of the writer compelled him to temporarily give up his work, and the direction of the new organization fell into other hands, although the department was carried on, as above, for a year or more ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 • Various
... symptoms now appearing of brain fever: bleeding, cupping, leeches, and ice to his head; these were the agreeable finale to his dream of love. We must hasten to add, however, that this violent crisis in the physical led to a perfect cure of the mental being. The barrister came out of his illness with no other sentiment than cold contempt for the treacherous Hungarian, a sentiment which did not even rise to a desire ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
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