1 When the cow had the colic and the horse fell ill with a mysterious ailment which threatened to remove him permanently from them, Will sat up nights with them and saved them.
2 If you encourage servants in giving way to every little disagreeable feeling, and complaining of every little ailment, you'll have your hands full.
3 Fauchelevent had done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a slight ailment.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 4 Besides, the physician might declare the ailment feigned; and Milady, after having lost the first trick, was not willing to lose the second.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY 5 No ailment was found, and he investigated again.
6 A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 7 as far as any improvement in his ailment goes.
8 Even the strictest old ladies felt that a man who could discuss the ailments and problems of childhood as well as he did could not be altogether bad.
9 Furthermore, various ailments had begun to cry out.
10 While he had been tossed by many emotions, he had not been aware of ailments.
11 His ailments, clamoring, forced him to seek the place of food and rest, at whatever cost.
12 If I was one of the complaining sort, or ever made any fuss about my ailments, there would be some reason for it.
13 However, instead of probing deeper into the subject of Chichikov's ailments, Murazov turned to Khlobuev.
14 We learned how to bleed men to cure them of all ailments.