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  • 687-688) Syria was afflicted by a serious famine.
  • He was afflicted with asthma, and his retirement was relieved only by the society of a few chosen friends.
  • I realize that it hurts to see their afflicted little child punished and made to do things against her will.
  • Besides these public establishments for the custody of lunatics, there are in the vicinity of Dublin various private asylums. The principal institution for blind men (and also those afflicted by gout) is Simpson's hospital (1780), founded by a merchant of Dublin; while blind women are maintained at the Molyneux asylum (1815).
  • He was afflicted with the stone, and obliged to be particular as to what he drank.
 
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