state of health


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I wish you could get Reginald home again on any plausible pretence; he is not at all disposed to leave us, and I have given him as many hints of my father's precarious state of health as common decency will allow me to do in my own house.
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Though much might be fancy, he could not doubt, when he looked back, that she was in a weaker state of health than she had been half a year ago.
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Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest ornaments.
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At her age, and in her state of health, were good spirits compatible with such an errand to a physician as the errand on which she was bent?
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To show him Benjamin's narrative, in his state of health, and in the face of the warning addressed to me, was simply out of the question.
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There can be no doubt," Horace agreed, "that Grace must be kept in the dark, in her present state of health.
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Indeed, he is already nearly in his usual state of health.
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Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr.
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On reflection I had felt the necessity, in Anne Catherick's state of health, of precipitating events, and of having Lady Glyde at my disposal earlier than I had originally contemplated.
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He expressed great alarm at his pastor's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favourable result.
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I have sometimes observed that circumstances which have produced a strong impression on patients, when they are in a state of health, give a certain direction to the wandering of their minds, when they are in a state of fever.
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Trundle had to be informed of all the mighty preparations that were making in London; and, being in a delicate state of health, was informed thereof through Mr.
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