afflict

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In Migraine Revelations Afflict Michelle Bachmann’s Campaign, John Rennie argues this is not necessarilly a disqualifying thing for her if one understands migraines.

From Scientific American • Jul. 22, 2011

But thought of Bharat's523 pain and toil, And my dear spouse the giant's spoil, Afflict my tortured heart and press My spirit down with heaviness.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

"Afflict you?" said I, at last; "I come to tell you what, now that I am here, I cannot tell——" There I stopped.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

Can a reproach, that in my love had birth, Afflict you so?

From Don Carlos by Schiller, Friedrich

Afflict not one to this dear haven fled, My private earthly paradise—my BED.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 by Various