It was a melancholy season, one of severe mental and bodily suffering.

He was the founder of an art genre that featured human bodily suffering.

Having been relieved from the most terrible of all man's bodily sufferings, we were content.

Others take it to signify the infliction of some bodily suffering or disease.

For two years before her end she was in great bodily suffering and her death agony lasted five days.

Paul Notara, blind in one eye, older than his years through mental and bodily suffering, was no longer the handsome young man of the past.

I willingly and gladly accept death; it is not from souls like ours that secrets can be wrung by bodily suffering.

He bore his many troubles and the additional burden of much bodily suffering with sweetness and patience, dying on 8 September 1656.

And wailing in an anguish of the heart so strong that her bodily suffering seemed to be forgotten, Hendrika, the Baboon-woman, died.

Even martyr literature, however, offers "detailed, indeed luxuriant, descriptions of bodily suffering", and became a popular genre at times indistinguishable from fiction.

So, had they been blows, and he a brave man, under strong constraint, and weakened by bodily suffering, he might have stood before the executioner.

The myth of Uncle Tom portrays the bodily suffering of blacks, which serves as a sign of their virtue and elicits white sympathy.

This stoicism of the old woman under the daily hardships, this contempt of bodily suffering, could only be caused by a moral grief equal to her own.

To be snatched from the maw of death was well worth a little bodily suffering, only it was unfortunate that he should miss the hanging of the Beaver.

It is what she has experienced already, but with the addition of responsibility, pain, and bodily suffering exemplified in the bearing of children and the shedding of blood.

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But she had by now reached a stage of physical and mental prostration wherein even acute bodily suffering counts as nothing, and is endurable because it is no longer felt.

As someone who had ridden only intermittently since childhood, I'd been prepared for a little bodily suffering; now humiliation as the lone inexperienced rider in an enclave of experts seemed certain too.

"As regards bodily suffering and material extortion, it is possible to attain such a limit as no longer to excite the cupidity of even the most rapacious deity," admitted Leou.

"In the course of a few days, Mr. Greely did what would have saved a world of trouble, and much mental and bodily suffering and misunderstanding, if he had done it sooner.

In a fragile condition Generalissimo Kilmaine left Switzerland and returned to Passy in Paris, where his domestic griefs and chagrins added to the poignancy of his bodily sufferings, for his constitution was now completely broken up.

Kraus was a man of brilliant and versatile talents, a scholar of great learning, a clever and elegant writer, and, in spite of ill-health and the acute bodily sufferings of his closing years, an author of wonderful productivity, who delighted in his work.

That is why the prayer of the Church as such, the Eucharistic meal which expresses and celebrates joyfully the community of the Church and the ultimate unity of humankind is the sacrament of bodily suffering, of the sacrificial death of Christ at our hands.

He was a patriot attached to his native soil- a prince true to his subjects, and indignant of their wrongs- a soldier, daring in battle, firm in adversity, patient of fatigue, of hunger, of every variety of bodily suffering, and ready to perish in the cause he had espoused.

At last, a fall from my horse convinced me bodily suffering was an evil; and the worst of an argument overset my maxims and my temper at the same moment: so I quitted Zeno for Aristippus, and conceive that pleasure constitutes the [Greek (transliterated): to kalon].

"With you I share a time of life marked by physical suffering."

People should be very worried about doing away with claims for physical suffering.

But I'd be inaccurate to say there was no physical suffering.

Images of physical suffering are clearly important to Park.

All of the agony and physical suffering during the past two years seemed compressed into this moment.

But the new memorandum also noted that physical suffering was difficult to define.

Because John was too preoccupied with ideas to notice his physical suffering, he suffered not.

He clearly recalled another passage: 'Physical suffering is not to be feared.

What was any physical suffering compared to such a frenzy of mind-agony?

He had lived in studious retirement, subject to physical suffering and depression.

In almost all cases, unbearable physical suffering were reported.

But mere physical suffering isn't enough for your sensors.

For having entirely dedicated himself to helping to relieve spiritual and physical suffering.

The Pope did not refer directly to his own physical sufferings, but addressed the issue in the first person.

As the play went on Carringer's physical suffering returned with increased aggressiveness.

"Some people believe physical suffering enhances the purity of revolution.

For Nastya a long period of fierce mental and physical suffering follows.

The physical suffering is worse for the victims.

Save during the first century of industrialism, there was no serious physical suffering among the proletariat.

Women who had these basically optimistic views suffered less than others psychologically, though there was no difference in their physical suffering.

In all that I endured there was no physical suffering but of moral distress an infinitude.

A1 Fear bound the hostages in Iraq far more than physical suffering or cruel treatment.

Leonie might have spared her protegeé some physical suffering, but at what price?

But this physical suffering was nothing compared to the moral torture I was about to endure.

Physical suffering and humiliation were considered appropriate retributive justice for the crimes they had committed.