They are infected with trypanosomes, a kind of attenuated worm that circulates in the blood, but fortunately not the variety that causes sleeping sickness.

In Nicholas's mind was the perplexing fact that these white men could bring sickness, but not stay it.

I feel this sickness of absence.

"For when I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

I could bear sickness better, if I were relieved from solitude.

You will never again know sickness, and you will never have to die.

For this reason he often feigned sickness and remained at home, so as not to be compelled to say or do anything definite.

It will be a chance to tell these people about Jesus who heals the soul-sickness.

"The vaccination may make a little sickness, but it keeps you from getting the big sickness," said Mary.

If you took it you would not sell one of its limbs for many marks of gold, for it has a medicine that will cure your sickness.

they filled the air with perfume, that was so overpowering as sometimes to produce sickness.

They are exposed to wasting sickness, without the ability to procure a nurse or employ a physician.

"Is it possible that this can be sleeping sickness?"

For 130 days his crew enjoyed the luxury of fresh vegetables, which were served out with their salt beef and pork, and prevented sickness among them.

As the vessel began to take the rise and swell of the sea, I traversed the deck diligently, and, by dint of perseverance in keeping the deck, escaped sea-sickness.

"I will help your people fight the smallpox sickness.

But if in the army there should be found more sickness and death than in the community at home, or even an equal amount, it is manifestly chargeable to the presence of more deteriorating and destructive influences in the military than in civil life.

He shammed sickness.

Some feared him as one that contemplated the imposition of a new tax; others viewed him askance as a doctor from the Hospital despatched by higher authority to put an end to the ceremony; and yet others,the larger number insooth,deemed that here at last was a Saheb who had found physic a failure and had learned that the Mother alone has power to allay grievous sickness.

And here, in their hour of sickness and suffering, lay those whose health and strength are spent in unrequited labour for usthose who, perhaps even yesterday, were being urged onto their unpaid taskthose whose husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, were even at that hour sweating over the earth, whose produce was to buy for us all the luxuries which health can revel in, all the comforts which can alleviate sickness.

This mother patiently bore sickness for eight months, and then passed away.

but she carried home heart-sickness, weariness, and a discontent of which she purged her soul, on her knees, before lying down to sleep.

The Sioux suppose that this rattle, in the hands of one of their medicine men or women, possesses a certain virtue to charm away sickness or evil spirits.

Whether the fear of being thrashed drove away my sickness, I do not know, but this is certain, that I felt no more of it after the second beating, and the next morning when I awoke I was very hungry.

They must endure the heart-sickness of seeing a child underfed.