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Sadie, like Beth March, suffered ill health -- got rheumatic fever and had to be careful of her heart -- but that never dampened her spirits.
During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).
" Biographer Trefousse indicates that Johnson's drinking on the occasion was the result of ill health which began before his arrival in Washington, though the exact nature of the ailment is not specified.
With his return to Germany in 896, Arnulf found that his physical ill health meant he was unable to deal with the problems besetting his reign.
For example in the case of anthrax, it is likely that by 24 – 36 hours after an attack, some small percentage of individuals ( those with compromised immune system or who had received a large dose of the organism due to proximity to the release point ) will become ill with classical symptoms and signs ( including a virtually unique chest X-ray finding, often recognized by public health officials if they receive timely reports ).
Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.
These may result from individuals ' personal discomfort, caused — for example — by ill health, poor eyesight or hearing difficulties.
By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill 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.
In July 2007, after 34 years in the role of Vera Duckworth, Elizabeth Dawn left the show due to ill health.
Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.
Following Lenin's forced departure due to ill health, a power struggle began, which involved Nikolai Bukharin, Lev Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tomsky, Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev.
He was offered the governorship of the province of Africa, but declined it, either due to ill health or, as Tacitus claims, the machinations of Domitian.
His elder brother Henry, who had been in ill health in part due to problems with alcoholism, died on August 1, 1831.
' In September Oxford again wrote of ill health, regretting he had not been able to pay attendance to the Queen.
Oxford continued to suffer from ill health, which kept him from court.
In spite of his bouts of ill health, he left no will.
Soon after his enthronement, Saga himself took ill. Emperor Saga's untimely health problems provided former-Emperor Heizei with a unique opportunity to foment a rebellion ; however, forces loyal to Emperor Saga, led by taishōgun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, quickly defeated the Heizei rebels which thus limited the adverse consequences which would have followed any broader conflict.
During the war, unscrupulous contractors sold the Union Army decrepit horses and mules in ill health, faulty rifles and ammunition, and rancid rations and provisions, among other unscrupulous actions.
He attempted to join the British Navy, but was turned down due to ill health.
Between 1906 and 1909 the Hawks family began to spend more time in Pasadena, California during the cold Wisconsin winters in order to improve Helen Hawks's ill health.
One is to take the NHS back more towards health prevention by tackling issues that are known to cause long term ill health.
Randolph was re-elected as president of the second congress in 1775 in which Middleton also served as a delegate until his resignation in 1776, citing ill health.
In October he was too ill to take the President's chair and in November Fanny Burney recorded that " I had long languished to see that kindly zealous friend, but his ill health had intimidated me from making the attempt ": " He had a bandage over one eye, and the other shaded with a green half-bonnet.

ill and at
After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.
Whatever the Hetman's ambitions, his colleagues were kept ill at ease.
I am really ill at the present moment, and I will go to some sort of a sanitarium to normalize myself ''.
Police said he became ill while parked in front of a barber shop at 229 West Pratt Street.
His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College.
* 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.
Within a few months, Emily unable to adapt to life at school, was physically ill from homesickness.
Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.
He tinformed Olga Carlisle that, at the end of The Blind Beauty, he wished to depict " the birth of an enlightened and affluent middle class, open to occidental influences, progressive, intelligent, artistic ..." However, Pasternak fell ill with terminal lung cancer before he could complete the first play of the trilogy.
In late medieval England, congregations regularly received Communion only at Easter ; and otherwise individual lay people might expect to receive Communion only when gravely ill, or in the form of a Nuptial Mass on being married.
Administered by Li Guoqiao at the Tropical Medicine Institute, the program relies on hybrid Artemisia annua of hybrid ancestry, which was used for a drug regimen by which all residents of the island, whether or not visibly ill, took two doses at a 40-day interval.
Human response at all levels of the organization can affect the customer experience for good or ill.
Gravely ill by November of that year, he died in Paris on December 6, at the age of 80.
Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.
Two months later he fell ill and spent over a month in recovery at Augusta National Golf Club.
When phoned at the Chelsea that morning, he said he was feeling ill and postponed the engagement.
de Gutierrez-Mahoney, doctors that treated Thomas while at St. Vincents, concluded that Faltenstein's failure to see that Thomas was gravely ill and have him admitted to hospital sooner, " was even more culpable than his use of morphine ".
The King of France himself was also gravely ill at that time, suffering " a flux of the bowels " ( dysentery ) from which he seemed unlikely to recover.
Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two contiguous, possibly coincidental events as related and causative of his death: " The Snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely ill, that he could not return to his Lodging ... but went to the Earle of Arundel's house at Highgate, where they put him into ... a damp bed that had not been layn-in ... which gave him such a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr Hobbes told me, he died of Suffocation.
In English, the meaning was taken from being " embarrassed ", ill at ease, hindered, by shame.

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