From this time the Prophet grew steadily worse.

This mountain range was very difficult to pass with horses, even in midsummer, and was of course infinitely worse now, when the mountain streams were swollen by the fall rains into foaming torrents, and the storms which herald the approach of winter might be at any moment expected.

I hear the boys tittering at the table behind mea sound which, telling me how ill I am speeding, makes my confusion tenfold worse.

If she happens to have fresh jelly, or fresh fruit, she will frequently give it to the patient half an hour after his dinner, or at his dinner, when he cannot possibly eat that and the broth tooor worse still, leave it by his bed-side till he is so sickened with the sight of it, that he cannot eat it at all.