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"Nervous breakdown" Quotes from Famous Books

... cream of the whole story. The Archdeacon was to pine secretly. His work was to be neglected. He was to be threatened with a nervous breakdown. He was to confide his sorrow to the paternal bosom of his Bishop. When Aunt Aggie was in her normal state it was the Bishop in whom the Archdeacon was to confide. But sometimes in the evenings after a glass of cowslip wine, her imagination took a bolder flight. The Archbishop himself was ...

— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley

... cigarette. "Anyhow, we couldn't find anything really wrong," he said. "Three senators retiring because of ill health, one because of old age. And Farnsworth, the youngest. He had a nervous breakdown." ...

— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett

... having fallen from his binder and so injured his foot in the machinery that amputation was necessary; he was in no condition to undertake new and arduous duties in organizing a publishing proposition as he was still suffering greatly from his injury. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, it required only the upsetting of the plans he had cherished to make him give up altogether and he resigned the editorship of the new magazine after getting out the ...

— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

... it was nervous breakdown. An' Old Bill was afraid of consumption. An' Jack Belllounds swore she was ...

— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey

... "I took the revolver home. You will understand that I was in a condition of mind bordering upon a nervous breakdown. I felt my responsibilities very keenly, and I felt that if Mr. Lyne would not accept my protestations of innocence, there was nothing left for me but to quit ...

— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace

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