Citations:afflicted


 * 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.