Citations:afflicted

English citations of afflicted

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  My conscience, too, afflicted me; and, as I thought, the Judge had always his eye upon me, shewing indignation in his countenance.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion — remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved — for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge, humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity.