make ill

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Most people were born at home and died at home, and medicine’s principal function was to make ill people as comfortable as possible while nature healed them or killed them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017

Nothing tends to make ill feeling more than having to do another's work; and, where there are many in a party, each one is apt to leave something for others to do.

From How to Camp Out by Gould, John Mead

For thine own good I would not have thee strive, nor make ill blood And shame about thee….

From The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides

I lingered there as long as four days, and was betrothed to them all; for it seemed shame to set one above her sisters, and might make ill blood in the family.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

“If the amiable devil should be moved to sacrifice now, I would be the nearest to his hand––think you he would make ill use of my youth and tenderness?”

From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis