Sick-man Sentence Examples

The sick man is considered to have lost his shadow or a part of it.

The duty of the physician was to foresee these changes, "to assist or not to hinder them," so that "the sick man might conquer the disease with the help of the physician."

The patient's skin burns, that of a frog is cold to the touch; therefore tie to the foot of the bed a frog, bound with red and black thread, and wash down the sick man so that the water of ablution falls 1 In its technical ecclesiastical sense the ablution is the ritual washing of the chalice and of the priest's fingers after the celebration of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church.

In the rite of death-bed penance given in the old Mozarabic Christian ritual of Spain, ashes were poured over the sick man.

Similarly, the sick man is to be moved to make a special confession of his sins if he feels his conscience troubled with any weighty matter.

He will acquiesce simply because he is a sick man.

Jesus's disciples, for example, who plucked ears of corn in passing through a field on the holy day, had, according to Rabbinical views, violated the third of the thirty-nine rules, 2 which forbade harvesting; and in healing the sick Jesus Himself broke the rule that a sick man should not receive medical aid on the Sabbath unless his life was in danger.

By the door of one of these a sick man was lying upon a couch, helpless and pale.

The sick man was given something to drink, there was a stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service continued.

The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray mane-- which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight of for a single moment during the whole service.

After a few minutes' bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had carried the sick man dispersed.

The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience.

The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall.

Pierre, girt with a rope round his waist and wearing shoes Karataev had made for him from some leather a French soldier had torn off a tea chest and brought to have his boots mended with, went up to the sick man and squatted down beside him.

Pierre told him about the sick man.