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"Affliction" Quotes from Famous Books

... her, as if to offer her his arm, and checked himself. Firmly persuaded as he was that her mind was deranged—readily as he admitted that she claimed, in virtue of her affliction, every indulgence that he could extend to her—there was something repellent to him at that moment in the bare idea of touching her. The image of the beautiful creature who was the object of her monstrous accusation—the ...

— The New Magdalen • Wilkie Collins

... He now became more brilliant than ever, and we were indebted to him for some valuable discoveries. He had learned that his supposed enemy was a real friend and true admirer of his great talents. He never suffered again from the affliction, which, had it not been arrested in time, would have ended in confirmed madness. He became more than ever a strong advocate for the observance of my laws in ...

— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... repent of her crimes and repeat them no more, she is sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, with the bread of affliction and the ...

— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 • Mark Twain

... self-compulsion, I strove to reconcile myself to its idea. Indeed, there was much in the peculiar circumstances of Isora, much in the freshness of her present affliction, much in the unfriended and utter destitution of her situation, that, while on the one hand, it called forth her pride, and made stubborn that temper which was naturally so gentle and so soft; on the ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... blest! And those, to whom is given Calmly the course of mortal life to pass, By no affliction sunk, pronounce ...

— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton

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