During a slow convalescence, having read all the romances he could find, he took up the "Lives of the Saints," and became fired with religious zeal.

A long season of such delightful convalescence was now his for the taking.

I find it characteristic of Mrs. CLIFFORD'S method that the only at all violent incident, a railway smash, happens discreetly out of sight, and does no more than provide its victim with an enjoyable convalescence, and the attentive reader with the suggestion of a psychological problem that is both unnecessary and unconvincing.

If any one fretted him in his somewhat fretful convalescence, it was this grenadier member of the household, who since Blossy's marriage had endeavored to fill the vacant post of "guardeen angel.

When Annie came on her quest for dust, you tooted once upon your nose, just to show that a remnant of your infirmity persisted, then put your golden convalescence on the making of your curtain.

To me it was most perilous, particularly the convalescence; for then I could be of so much use to her!

CHAPTER XX IN WHICH SOMETHING MUST BE DONE Clem's prolonged convalescence was a trial to his militant spirit.

All were living in confident expectation of a speedy convalescence; the news of the death came upon them like a thunderclap.

This was the beginning of an illness which lasted, with its subsequent convalescence, through the remainder of the year.

And it is the prime merit of genius, and its most unequivocal mode of manifestation, so to represent familiar objects as to awaken in the minds of others that freshness of sensation which is the constant accompaniment of mental, no less than of bodily, convalescence.

His first few months, while he was still in need of care, had been spent with Miles and Anne, and that tender ministry to him which his sister-in-law had begun in his illness had been with him when he was tired, dispirited, or beset by the trials of a tardy convalescence.