On one occasion she had withdrawn from her friends for a single evening, pleading indisposition.

From Central America I have received assurances of the most friendly kind and a gratifying application for our good offices to remove a supposed indisposition toward that Government in a neighboring State.

Bouillon feigned an indisposition, and refused to leave his hotel, where, after a long interview with the Duke, it was resolved that Condé should be warned not to trust himself in the power of the Queen-mother.

Lady Moseley, on returning, was alarmed lest the draught would increase her indisposition; but her sister, observing that the window commanded a view of the road, thought the air too mild to do her injury.

Immediately after he felt indisposition of any kind he complained of a return of the pains due to the accident, and there can be but little doubt that the inward injuries then sustained had left their mark, though nominally healed.

This famous powder, however, instead of adding to the means of securing a long and healthy life, is well known to produce constant indisposition, and at length to cause a most miserable death; being composed of certain drugs of a poisonous nature, though slow in their operation.

Yet he was not insensible to martial fame; and he accordingly showed no indisposition to forsake his harem for the field.

I hope during the winter, if we have any, to send you many amusing books to shorten the tediousness of time, and charm away your indisposition.

Charlotta will be here immediately;she has counterfeited an indisposition to avoid going to vespers, and obtained permission for me to stay with her;so that every thing is right, and as soon as the choir is gone into chapel you will see her.

She could say this with truth; for so rapidly had she recovered, that the inexperienced eye of the Indian could detect no remaining indisposition in the slight and graceful form of the interesting pale-face, or any trace of disease in the bright eye that smiled so kindly upon him.

Bianca's own physician failed to diagnose her indisposition, whilst the Court physicians scouted the ideaalready being translated into wordsthat the sudden attacks of the Grand Ducal couple were due to poison.

Gideon felt it himself, and was certain that a "misery," that embracing indisposition of his race, was creeping upon him.

And hence floweth an utter indisposition and unfitness for duty.

From circumstances, however, over which the Government of the United States had no control, but which are not supposed to indicate any indisposition on the part of the Paraguayan Government to consummate the final formalities necessary to give full force and validity to the treaty, the exchange of ratifications has not yet been effected.

Thus, for example, some of them will affect to doubt that the jobber wishes to sell to them, and propose, as a test, that he shall let them have some choice article at the cost, or at less than the cost, now on one pretext, and now on another,intimating an indisposition to buy, if they cannot be indulged in that one thing.

The continual agitations of her mind, joined to want of air, a quite different way of life, and perhaps fitting more closely to work than she had been accustomed, threw her at length into a kind of languishing indisposition, which, tho' it did not confine her to her bed, occasioned a loss of appetite, and frequent faintings, which were very alarming to her.

were I to have owned this indisposition to my late harasses, and to the uneasiness I have had for disobliging you; all is infinitely compensated by your goodness.

On Saturday morning he absented himself from the schools, pleading by post a slight indisposition, and took all his earthly goods to the booking office at Vauxhall Station.

They should be taken immediately after the repast, or some hours after, because the taking these substances during the process of digestion is apt to provoke indisposition.

We see comparatively so few people that we are apt to recur to recollections of those we like best with almost childish frequency, and a little fresh news about you would be a welcome variety, especially the news that you had quite shaken off that spine indisposition which was still clinging to you that last morning when we said our good-byes.

I had suffered a slight indisposition, so Major Browne deputised for me, and inspected the Russian and Czech guards of honour drawn up to welcome the troops on their arrival.

At first we thought her indisposition of little account, but she seems run down.

I became a dreamer, and acquired an indisposition to all bodily activity; and I was fretful, and inordinately passionate."

When he finds himself a prey to these fits, which, in his pride, he persists in attributing to transient indisposition, he goes to walk in the mountains, taking with him only his pipe, his Bible, and his spy-glass.

After ringing for her maid to sit in the adjoining room, Mrs. Wilson went below, and announced to the family the indisposition of her charge, and her desire to obtain a little sleep.