Or it was the death of a friend, an illness, an accident, a disappointment, which turned the thoughts to heavenly things.

Mrs. Boyle had removed here from Baltimore, a few years before her own death, that she might be with her brother through his long and fatal illness; and, finding her health improved by change of air, had occupied his house ever since, until one of those typhoid fevers that infest such river-gorges at certain seasons of the year entered the village about the mills, when, in visiting the sick, she took the epidemic herself and died.

One day he asked his physician in a very earnest manner what was the cause of his illness.

Her husband had been out of work a long time by reason of his illness; he was now of a fashion recovered, and had gone off to seek for work.

On January 1, 1860, I began arranging my notes for my work on the Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, but it was not published until the beginning of 1868, the delay having been caused partly by frequent periods of illness, one of which lasted seven months, and partly by being tempted to publish on other subjects which at the time interested me more.

She displayed, during her illness, much penitence and true faith, and she died with a good hope of pardon through her Saviour.

She knew that such a journey would be fatiguing to a frame much enfeebled by illness and a life of continuous exertion, but she still had an earnest desire to work for the good of others, if it seemed the will of her Lord and Master.

Cold or tepid baths should be employed every morning, unless, on account of illness or other circumstances, they should be deemed objectionable.

The first meal of the day, breakfast, will then be served, at which all the family should be punctually present, unless illness, or other circumstances, prevent.

The still-room was formerly much more in vogue than at present; for in days of "auld lang syne," the still was in constant requisition for the supply of sweet-flavoured waters for the purposes of cookery, scents and aromatic substances used in the preparation of the toilet, and cordials in cases of accidents and illness.

After various futile efforts during his later years to unify his empire, Charles died from an illness which seized him in 877, on his return to France from a fruitless campaign of subjugation and pillage in Italy.

The illness attacking her had begun insidiously, with a gradual enlargement and thickening of her face and hands.

This tripfor the means to make which I was indebted to Norton, my illness having exhausted my resources, and the great crisis which had broken over New York the year before having swept off the fortune of my brothergave me a sight of the South before the war, with slavery and the patriarchal system at its perfection.

In after years I saw her not infrequently, and when illness and grief had touched her, and I saw always the same serenity and the same wide personal charity.

We had planned to go togetherthe elder Browning, Robert and Mrs. Browning, Miss Browning, my wife, and myselfto pass the summer at Fontainebleau, and we were awaiting the arrival of Robert and his wife from Florence when the news came of Mrs. Browning's illness, followed not much later by that of her death.

In the first place, M.'s illness cut out three months; then fitting up G.'s room at Princeton took a large part of the next three; then ever so many people wanted me to paint them pictures; then I began a book; then Moody and Sankey appeared, and I wanted to hear them, and was needed to work in co-operation with them.

We heard yesterday that Dr. Schaff had lost his eldest daughter after a ten days' illness with typhoid fever.

Illness and Death of Prof. Smith.

Neither her mother nor sister could go near her during their illness or after their death, because of the flock of little ones in their house, and it was not safe to have a funeral.

She translated it at Genevrier during the illness of her children.

Sudden Illness.

The girls having written to a friend who was to visit us the next week, she asked if they had mentioned her illness.

Her eyes were unusually bright, but the marks of recent or approaching illness were stamped upon her countenance.

He thought it was sympathy because of his wife's illness, and as such accepted it in a grateful spirit.

just when I have begun to know and to use my moral powers rightly, illness seizes me and threatens to undermine my physical powers.