The illness itself was no good to her, considering that she didn't want to be ill this time.

But my illness will be my present security, should he indeed have meditated villany.

Her illness was Kate's opportunity.

Illness would be a very serious matter, as I had arrived at an important stage in my career.

After my illness came a sense of change.

Well she knew that illnesses are expensive affairs.

This nagging illness was the cause of much of that irritability of temper which frequently led him to scold the public, and for which he has been harshly handled by unfriendly critics.

If mother's illness was a sore affliction, her recovery is a great blessing; and even the illness itself has its bright side, for we have joyed in showing her how much we prize her continued life.

A serious illness, a law-suit, a bankruptcy, even an ordinary prosaic marriage, may be a crisis in a man's life, without being necessarily, or even probably, material for drama.

The real illness is weakness of calibrea looseness of fibre.

long illness is the real vampyrism; think of living a year or two after one is dead, by sucking the life-blood out of a frail young creature at one's bedside!Well, souls grow white, as well as cheeks, in these holy duties; one that goes in a nurse may come out an angel.

Thiers says that the Imperial illness at Pirna was "a malady invented by flatterers," and yet only a few pages before he says that "Napoleon proceeded to Pirna, where he arrived about noon, and where, after having partaken of a slight repast, he was seized with a pain in the stomach, to which he was subject after exposure to damp."

This mortified him severely, and a serious illness was the consequence.

We are too apt to look upon illness and death as capricious events, and there are some who ascribe them to the direct effect of supernatural interference, whereas the fact of the maladies of two twins being continually alike shows that illness and death are necessary incidents in a regular sequence of constitutional changes beginning at birth, and upon which external circumstances have, on the whole, very small effect.

I sent for a doctor and he declared the illness to be fever, and probably typhoid.

My sister's illness is the most obstinate she ever had.

His illness was the occasion of a display of loyalty and sympathy from thousands of British subjects.

My confession gave him "that turn," as Mrs. Gamp would say, that his present illness may be the result of it.

What if this illness of Duge's is a fake!

Her illness is exciting great sympathy in our church, and nobody seems willing to let her go.

But the girl said to herself that her trouble was one that they could not fathom, that her supposed illness and the remedies she had to endure were nonsense.

The illness was pneumonia, although not in its severest form; but Mr. Rudd's age was an important factor in the case.

To another he said that his illness was a great trial of his patience.

Dear Miss Betham,I sit down, very poorly, to write to you, being come to Mr. Walden's, Church Street, Edmonton, to be altogether with poor Mary, who is very ill, as usual, only that her illnesses are now as many months as they used to be weeks in durationthe reason your letter only just found me.

On the night that Washington's illness first became serious his secretary narrates that "Between 2 and 3 o'clk on Saturday morning he [Washington] awoke Mrs. Washington & told her he was very unwell, and had had an ague.