Sadie, like Beth March, suffered ill health -- got rheumatic fever and had to be careful of her heart -- but that never dampened her spirits.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Later in life, Mary struggled with the stresses of losing her husband and sons, and Robert Lincoln committed her temporarily to a mental health asylum in 1875.

Anne and Charlotte do not appear to have been close while at Roe Head ( Charlotte's letters almost never mention her ) but Charlotte was concerned about her sister's health.

He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.

Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

The school's poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria ( born 1814 ) and Elizabeth ( born 1815 ), who died of tuberculosis in June 1825.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after the marriage but her health declined rapidly and according to Gaskell, she was attacked by " sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness.

This second child weakened her already fading health.

In 1976, Pat Phoenix returned to her role as Elsie Tanner and, after a spate of ill health, Violet Carson returned on a more regular basis as Ena.

With her health impaired, her work output dwindled for the remainder of her life.

Laura's health declines and her father has a doctor examine her.

But at long last came a time when I broke away from Mother and her society `` chi-chi '' in order to spend a cosy evening with Viola and her chaperon at her home.

No believer in the traditional devotion of royal servitors, the plump Pulley broke the language barrier and lured her to Cairo where she waited for nine months, vainly hoping to see Farouk.

Jones had been about a hundred and fifty feet from her when he first broke through to the top of the Reef.

She was transformed by her therapy with Otto Rank, who broke with Freud over his failure to appreciate the power of women's sexuality, the value of art, and the meaning of the mother-child relationship.

From Aeschylus ' Agamemnon, it appears that she has made a promise to Apollo to become his consort, but broke it, thus incurring his wrath: though she has retained the power of foresight, no one will believe her predictions.

Melony is an extremely stoic woman, who refuses to press charges against a man who brutally broke her nose and arm so that she can later retaliate herself.

In response, Eleanor broke down, and meekly excused her behaviour, claiming to be bitter because of her lack of children.

Before his relationship with Monica, Chandler dated Janice Hosenstein in season 1 and subsequently broke up with her many times.

But still Frigg preferred the splendour of her own apparel to the divine honours of her husband, and submitted herself to the embraces of one of her servants ; and it was by this man's device she broke down the image, and turned to the service of her private wantonness that gold which had been devoted to public idolatry.

His appearance on stage prompted the Queen Mother to rise to her feet, the only time she did so during the whole show, and she later broke protocol to go backstage to speak with Cagney directly.

" As a teen, she became overweight and her skin broke out so badly she was left with deep scars which required dermabrasion.

In 1836 Marx became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, a beautiful baroness of the Prussian ruling class —" the most desirable young woman in Trier " — who broke off her engagement with a young aristocratic second lieutenant to be with him.

When the First World War broke out, he hastened to join the British Army, releasing Barbara from her engagement in case he was killed or mutilated.

However Luthor broke out of prison and gave her flowers he had developed that removed the bad memory from her mind.

In 1477 Abbess Hedwig, aided by her brothers Ernest and Albert, broke the resistance of the town and expelled the bishop's forces.

He eventually broke off the treatment entirely because of what he saw as her hostility to men.

The conspirators effectively ruled Egypt as Ptolemy V's guardians, until, two years later, a revolt broke out under the general Tlepolemus and Agathoclea and her family were lynched by a mob in Alexandria.

Example: " Tja meine Herren, dem haben wir das Rückgrat gebrochen "-" Well, Gentlemen, we broke her (" the ship's ") backbone there ".

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He saw her hand start to work down the leather thong toward the handle of the quirt, and he grabbed her wrist.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

Slowly and thoughtfully, she slipped the ornament into the pocket of her slacks, moved down the stairs and out of the house.

It crept into the open neck of her blouse and slid down her body, seeping into her flesh through all the quivering pores of her skin.

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

She set down her suitcase.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.