make ill

Example Sentences

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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

I know what you think about family, and I don’t want to make ill return for the courtesy and kindness you and Mr. Winthrop have always shown me.”

From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

But one may make ill use of hope, since the passion of hope, like the other passions, is subject to a mean and extremes.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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

Also, you noise abroad that my lord Arthur is slain, and that is not so, and therefore you will make ill work in the land.'

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)