| 单词 | wasting away |
| 例句 | Dunbar seldom laughed any more and seemed to be wasting away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You speak coolly enough; but you suffer in the conflict. You are wasting away.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z These communities desperately need their young men to be holding down jobs and supporting their families, rather than wasting away in prison cells. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Trouble!” my uncle Juan whispered hoarsely, but his voice carried and I could hear, “trouble in town! Tenorio’s daughter, the one who has been sick and wasting away, death has come for her!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tyson, you’re wasting away. Would you like another peanut butter sandwich?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Physical therapists worked his arms and legs to keep the muscles from wasting away, but something vital had gone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A post-mortem examination revealed a complete wasting away of the bone marrow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He realized that wasting away on this Mexican backstretch was a brilliant horseman. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I love her dearly, but I can't live with her for a day without feeling my whole life is wasting away. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Reyna and the coach experienced his journey through Tartarus, his capture by the giants, his days wasting away inside that bronze jar. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Immediately, her mind filled with images of Montez laid out on a cot somewhere, wasting away as gray-clad soldiers stormed over barricades. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Consider it on the house. We don’t want you wasting away just yet.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Tall, bullet scarred, small-eyed, and jittery, he seemed to be wasting away from within—hence his nickname, Slim. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Most didn’t last long, either taking their own lives or wasting away from a lack of will even to eat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Hudson, Harriett, and I had the same teacher as everyone else, and yet we’re the only ones from our class wasting away in summer school. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I had found the boy in squalid conditions, wasting away in an orphanage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Again the wars were ‘inevitable’ and this time there were atomic weapons, so that mankind could no longer live through its torment to the inevitable wasting away of inevitability.—And positronic robots came. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She lost weight, refusing to eat as if wasting away in despair. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “And he’s been off-color for ages, he was wasting away. It was probably better for him to snuff it quickly — one swallow — he probably didn’t feel a thing.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Whoever came to him suffering, whether from wounded limbs or bodies wasting away with disease, even those who were sick unto death, he delivered from their torment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They worked willingly to build her a temple, and when it was finished Demeter came to it and sat there—apart from the gods in Olympus, alone, wasting away with longing for her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your whole summer is wasting away,” Bunny complained the following week in that wilting tone of disgust she was so good at. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The three-year-old was only getting sicker, wasting away before everyone’s eyes, as the mutant germs flourished. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z These lush and reverb-thick songs are ambitious and pointed about subjects that often drag: leaving, wasting away, aching. New Music: New Albums by Dum Dum Girls and the Bangles 2011-10-03T22:39:47Z Louisa is wasting away with a rare blood disorder and is flying to London for treatment. The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read 2010-08-02T21:29:00Z A chivalrous man who "never used one word when twenty would do the same job," he's also a near-invalid, wasting away in his elegant clothing, barely managing to walk the three blocks of Front Street. 'Doc': Mary Doria Russell's intoxicating novel of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and Dodge City 2011-05-11T20:59:05Z And it made Adams appear to be a woman wasting away in a hospice, instead of a patient actively undergoing treatment. Awful cancer writers say you just don’t understand them 2014-01-14T16:30:00Z We imagine a woman wasting away and faithful to the end. Poem of the week: The Bed That Is a Tree by Kim Lasky 2012-05-28T10:54:50Z It is, in a way, a picture of dissipation worse than Rust’s physical wasting away; the Marty of the 2000s just seems like an inert, constipated ball of sadness. True Detective Watch: Scarface 2014-03-03T03:01:18Z An old woman, literally wasting away, kidnaps our attention by briefly itemizing her infirmities. Terrence Malick's To the Wonder: Rapturous, Forbidding, Wondrous 2012-09-02T18:36:04Z All the papers and preparation in the world, though, can’t get you ready you for how radically life-altering the transplant process is, how fundamentally less than human you become while waiting and wasting away. When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The official death certificate said an advanced and incurable cancer led to malnutrition and wasting away. Pablo Neruda's body to be exhumed over Pinochet regime murder claims 2013-04-08T09:00:00Z He couldn’t drink or eat… and seemed to be wasting away. Will Olympics spread measles? 2012-07-26T15:50:00Z Indeed, Kang’s subject and tone owe much to Kafka, in particular “The Hunger Artist,” which similarly features a protagonist slowly wasting away and an elaborate extended metaphor about making art in a conventional society. A woman going mad, and a radical refusal, in ‘The Vegetarian’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The disease is never mentioned, although the images reveal a slow wasting away. Adrian Tomine plays against type in 'Killing and Dying' 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z We don’t see white coats or hear beeping monitors; there’s no wasting away, no hair loss, no funeral. The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z When I learned about the id, ego and superego in school, I felt like my superego and my id were so busy duking it out that my ego had shrunk into a corner, wasting away. My paralyzing perfectionism 2014-05-12T00:00:00Z He lives in his mom’s basement; said mom is wasting away with dementia and needs full-time care. ‘Rent-A-Pal’ Review: You Don’t Want to Borrow This VHS Tape 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z A diorama and animated footage show American soldiers falling in hails of bullets and prisoners wasting away in dank cells. George Washington Really Slept Here. So Did His Slave. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z With the box office wasting away, “Escape to Margaritaville” is calling it a day. ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ Is Closing on Broadway 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z I was unable to sleep, to think, and struggled to even look at Theo, as whenever I did, all I saw was his cruel and painful decline, his muscles wasting away before my eyes. Our beautiful sons could die before us 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z An ailing woman, literally wasting away, kidnaps our attention by briefly itemizing her infirmities while clutching her infant child. Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder: A Gush of Cosmic Rapture 2013-04-11T09:45:05Z Or worse: become stuck in a deep hole, alone, slowly wasting away. Her dog went missing in the middle of the pandemic — and a neighborhood of strangers found a mission 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z He had been suffering from prostate cancer and his death certificate said he died of "cancerous cachexia" - a wasting away caused by the disease. Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet's death still shrouded in mystery 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z “People are dying because they cannot access health care services and medicine. And now, because of the war, Sudan’s children are wasting away for lack of food and nutrition,” it said. The U.N. and its partners ramp up their appeal for peace and aid at the 4-month mark of Sudan’s war 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Then, after his own son becomes collateral damage, Season 2 finds the devastated former judge in prison, not talking or eating — just wasting away. Bryan Cranston plumbs the depths in 'Your Honor,' then slowly begins the climb back 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z It's a country that's become thoroughly militarized and so is slowly wasting away, marked increasingly by fear, deprivation, and unhappiness. Ex-military officer: DOD budget shows vast power of the military-industrial-congressional complex 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z In cavefish, groups of genes that contribute to the wasting away or loss of muscle tissue were turned up, meaning they had lower muscle mass than those that had remained outside the caves. How will ‘couch potato’ humans evolve? Idle cavefish offer clues. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z It has been wasting away for years now, and this month’s midterm results are the finishing blow. Opinion | The GOP is dead. A new GOP must listen to working people. 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “Their hands symbolized their love and sacrifice for family. But my unblemished hands signified nothing in return, only evidence of wasting away their hard work.” ‘Miles Walked, Miles Driven’: This Year’s College Essays About Money 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Most of his patients were children, including one of his first, a 9-year-old boy named Steven, whose skeletal muscles were rapidly wasting away. Leon E. Rosenberg, Geneticist Who Wrote of His Depression, Dies at 89 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z “We are thus witnessing a slow but unrelenting wasting away of water availability in our country,” Patuanelli told the lower Chamber of Deputies. Drought: Italy warns a third of farm production at risk 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z When one is chronically starving, this use of amino acids for energy production can lead to a wasting away of the body, as more and more proteins are broken down. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Without it patients faced losing muscle and wasting away. Pancreatic cancer: Life-changing medication not given to 40% of patients 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z But my unblemished hands signified nothing in return, only evidence of wasting away their hard work. ‘Miles Walked, Miles Driven’: This Year’s College Essays About Money 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z The performance of “Fidelio” I attended Sunday afternoon was on a day when a 21st century reign of terror was raining down on Ukraine, while political activists in Russia are wasting away in the gulag. Review: Beethoven remade as Black Lives Matter music at the Broad Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z For Wall, the remainder of his career is wasting away. Perspective | The NBA’s newest trend keeps stars in street clothes and demeans the game 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s also a blunt metaphor for what nearly every character here experiences: the steady wasting away of body and spirit. Review: Spend a hell of a Thanksgiving with Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun in 'The Humans' 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z He added: "It can be difficult to capture the feeling of a life wasting away, watching prison creep closer while we sit in the PM's in-tray." Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband begins new hunger strike in London 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Kids are being lazy, wasting away their youth playing video games? Why China's Xi Jinping looks to be pursuing a road back to socialism 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z And Brenner, then a platoon commander in his mid-20s, thought it was a good idea to get “19-year-olds to read books and use their brains when they would otherwise have been wasting away.” Getting educated while on active duty is getting harder as military limits benefits 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z "Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day," she wrote from the scripture. 'Duck Dynasty' star Korie Robertson speaks out on Afghanistan, Haiti events: 'Utterly heartbreaking' 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z By the summer of 2018, J50, not even 4 years old, was wasting away, spurring an attempt at an international rescue effort, even as mother orca Tahlequah was clinging to her dead calf. Southern resident orcas celebrate 3 healthy calves as researchers find J pod in best overall condition in a decade 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z About 30 million children worldwide are so hungry that their bodies are wasting away. Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Beasley earlier described a visit this week to a child-malnutrition ward in a Sanaa hospital, where he saw children wasting away. US resumes aid to Yemen’s rebel north as famine threatens 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z He said that at a child malnutrition ward in a Sanaa hospital he saw children wasting away from lack of food. ‘This is hell’: UN food aid chief visits Yemen, fears famine 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z It is caused by mutations of a gene that produces dystrophin, which is involved in building muscles, and results in the wasting away of muscle fibres, leading to disability and death. After the Nobel, what next for Crispr gene-editing therapies? 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Ten days later he was in hospice care, diagnosed as terminally ill by a small Covina provider of end-of-life services that said he was weak and wasting away, with six months or less to live. End-of-life care has boomed in California. So has fraud targeting older Americans 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Her first novel tells the story of Bea and her five-year-old daughter, Agnes, who is wasting away in the smog and pollution of the metropolis they call home. Booker Prize 2020: Authors await £50,000 announcement 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z “Forgotten and wasting away in far-off prisons. Wrongfully detained by foreign governments. Americans were beaten, abused, starved and left for dead. Until President Donald Trump stepped in.” Arrested, Tortured, Imprisoned: The U.S. Contractors Abandoned in Kuwait 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Maybe she would eat and stop wasting away. Pandemic isolation has killed thousands of Alzheimer’s patients while families watch from afar 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Until that happens, I dream of wasting away in Margaritaville as I turn and stare at the Buffett memorabilia that now graces my office wall. VIRUS DIARY: Dreams of Buffett songs and warm distant shores 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Their Facebook page said it was an “opportunity for First and Second Amendment supporters to get together, meet people with commonalities and get some exercise while we’re all wasting away at home,” Raleigh News & Observer. Wizards' Bradley Beal speaks out about citizens carrying 'military grade' weapons in wake of viral photo 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z He recalls the first major TV news broadcast showing men wasting away from AIDS. COVID-19 and AIDS crisis: NYC gays see parallels, contrasts 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “There’s still so much good stuff wasting away in here,” she told her employee. Traveling the loneliest road 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z “So he was wasting away. He just looked drained, he was just depleted. He wasn’t getting the nutrients.” Jaden Smith addresses health issues on 'Red Table Talk' after parents raised concerns over his diet 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But there’s nothing sad about the sight, nothing sympathetic to be said about the rain-drenched man, isolated and wasting away. Banished after Baylor rape scandal, Art Briles is coaching again and wants to leave it at that 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Their wasting away is unlikely to be a pretty sight. Soaring eagle films crumbling Alpine glaciers as Earth warms 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “He was wasting away. He just looked drained. He was just depleted. He wasn’t getting the nutrients.” Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith held intervention for son Jaden after concerns over his diet, weight loss 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z It leads to muscles wasting away and affects the ability to move, eat and even breathe. Gut bacteria may have motor neurone disease role 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Megan Rapinoe has the world at her feet and shamefully refuses to properly recognize the national anthem, while Lou Gehrig is shown giving his "luckiest man" speech while wasting away from of a horrible disease. Letters: Death of Tyler Skaggs is a huge loss for the Angels 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Home to 145 launches, including the Mariner missions, which sent probes deep into the solar system, it, too, was wasting away. The Florida Space Coast is bouncing back with help from SpaceX, Boeing and Blue Origin 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z My job seems specifically designed to keep me wasting away in a chair. Forget standing desks: to stay healthy, you've got to move all day 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The other day this newspaper ran before and after drone images of one whale, K25, that show it to be clearly wasting away. In the great debate to save the orcas, the apex predator is missing 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z There is even a gym on the ISS where astronauts can keep their muscles – no longer needed to prop them up – from slowly wasting away. Space: how far have we gone – and where are we going? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Added to these tensions would be three muscle biopsies performed under general anaesthesia, procedures that are particularly unnerving for people whose muscle is wasting away. How Facebook and Twitter could be the next disruptive force in clinical trials 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z When Paul McCartney actually became 64, he wasn’t “sincerely wasting away” or “knitting sweaters by the fireside” at all – he had recently headlined Glastonbury. 'We were sad of getting old': how pop stars are growing up gracefully 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z As high school wrestler in Sacramento, he found himself wasting away from anorexia as he tried to cut weight during the season. Mariners minor league catcher Mike Marjama retires from baseball 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z I’m wasting away and I’m wasting my family away. Tennessee women battling addiction – photo essay 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z He says it was ‘an incredibly disturbing image’ wasting away Sundays witnessing his hometown team sleepwalk through one loss after another during a 17-season playoff drought that ended last year. Buffalo buzzing over Bills draft picks, Sabres lottery win 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z And far too many who are addicted to drugs when they enter prison are still addicted upon release, their lives wasting away as they are trapped in the downward spiral of human despair. Prison Reform and Redemption Act offers hope for former prisoners 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z By mid-January, he lay in a hospital ward, wasting away from tuberculosis. ‘We’re Losing the Fight’: Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z But when a calf was wasting away in November without influence from humans, the group stepped in … with a helicopter. Orphaned Baby Elephant Saved by Helicopter 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Both the company and state experts said several weeks ago that they presumed all the escaped fish are dead or wasting away. Violations prompt Washington state to cancel Atlantic salmon farm lease at Port Angeles 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Farmed Atlantic salmon are still being found in Puget Sound rivers, despite state experts saying they are wasting away and not turning up on spawning grounds. Despite agency assurances, tribes catch more escaped Atlantic salmon in Skagit River 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z It resist treatment, abstracts one from daily life and even personal life, and casts a wastage upon people's energy and spirit as if they themselves were wasting away. Waiting for Depression to Lift 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z He couldn’t bear to see his son, his only child, wasting away in front of him. We need to talk about male suicide – and not just when celebrities suffer | Richard Taylor 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z This was a child literally wasting away and with what appeared to be blood in her diaper, according a doctor at Children’s National Medical Center, where she was declared dead at 12:26 p.m. Opinion | How I helped let a seven-week-old baby die 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It was an astonishing discovery — dozens of pets wasting away from a disease that nobody knew existed. The Mystery of the Wasting House-Cats 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z On the way back,Yusuf decided to risk an escape attempt, convinced that otherwise he, too, would die in the jail, where some had been wasting away on starvation rations for months. Africa’s new slave trade 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z "I was wasting away and totally depressed," says Ana. Spain's female bodyguards who protect abused women - BBC News 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z “What we’re going to end up with is internment camps along the Southern border, and people wasting away in them,” he said. This company is making millions from America’s broken immigration system 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Astronauts on the ISS exercise for two hours a day to protect their muscles from wasting away, but losing bone density is unavoidable. From shrinking spines to space fungus: The top five dangers of space travel 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Her shame was greater than the fear of wasting away. Major HIV vaccine trial in South Africa stokes hope 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z That means defendants ruled incompetent to stand trial end up wasting away in jail instead of receiving treatment. Too many defendants in Maryland are in jail instead of in treatment 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z While palaeontologist Stephen Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh describes the decline as “very, very plausible,” he believes that doesn’t mean dinosaurs were “wasting away” towards an inevitable end. Dinosaurs in decline long before asteroid catastrophe, study reveals 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z “This is why he is wasting away in jail today, and precisely why the world’s free writers should use their freedom of expression as a weapon in the war on oppression.” Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded freedom of speech prize 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z An MRI conducted during the 20th week showed that the portion of the brain that controls decision making, as well as the portion that detects vision, hearing and touch, were wasting away. Startling Zika Finding Reported at D.C. Hospital 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The stereotypical look of distance runners is gaunt and wasting away, and I experienced a small work slump before finding a balance. This fashion model is passing up the L.A. Marathon for a 100-mile run -- in Alaska 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z This wasting away drew on, despite the physical strength her body needed to complete complicated dance moves on stage. Teen overcomes anorexia, warns others of eating disorders 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Once you’ve lost weight, your body fears that food is in short supply, and that slowing your metabolism will keep you from wasting away. 6 Tips for Keeping Off the Weight Once You Lose It 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z He had just ministered to long-forgotten victims wasting away from radiation more than thirty years later. How the Pope Flies: Across Four Continents with John Paul II 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z It's been three years since millions of sea stars from Alaska to Canada and down to Baja, Mexico started wasting away into gooey white mounds. Starfish Are Still Dying, But Here's Reason for Hope 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “I feel I’m wasting away here,” he said. What Home Means to New York’s Oldest Old 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z I’m not wasting taxpayers’ dollars, I reassured myself, as I refused to recognize that instead, I was wasting away myself. What It Was Like Growing Up With Food Insecurity 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Instead of snowfall, Washington residents huddled under winter rains, and what little snowpack accumulated has been quickly wasting away. Three Ways U.S. West Can Adapt to Deep Drought 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, her brother Mohamed, a 27-year-old U.S. citizen and Ohio State University graduate, is in the same Egyptian jail, wasting away on a hunger strike. Her family in peril, Virginia woman takes on the role of lead advocate 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z He told Westminster Magistrates' Court he felt his life was "wasting away". Commons marble thrower Steven Abberley sentenced 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Its reputation as a haven for boozy revelers “wasting away again in Margaritaville,” as local hero Jimmy Buffett famously sings, long eclipsed its lure as a destination for luxury travelers. Key West: America's Hottest New Luxury Destination for 2015 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Ben and Saoirse don’t like this relocation, for as much as they miss their dad and their sheepdog, Saoirse seems to be suddenly, disturbingly wasting away. ‘Song of the Sea’ movie review: A dreamlike voyage home 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z After wasting away in Edmonton, Perron has rediscovered his soft hands - and the back of the net - in Pittsburgh. Penguins pound floundering Wild 7-2 to 6th straight loss 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “After five years of literally wasting away, Alan is done. It is time for President Obama to bring Alan back to the United States now; otherwise it will be too late.” Wife of US aid worker jailed in Cuba: 'Enough is enough' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The gradual wasting away of the brain in dementia cuts lives short. Dementia tops female causes of death 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z I’m offering you an out here – a chance to skirt obsolescence, to actually make the world better instead of wasting away in your own bigoted pointlessness. It's game over for gay marriage opponents. These dodos need to find a new obsession 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The people and places that I and many others hold dear are wasting away. Stop Making the Ebola Crisis About the United States 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Below you will find the details of a case involving a retired state trooper who starts wasting away. Think Like a Doctor: Losing It 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z "Dinosaurs weren’t wasting away for tens of millions of years." Bad Timing to Blame for Big Dinosaur Extinction 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z With her son wasting away in front of her eyes, she called Borody again and he suggested a faecal transplant. The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z But while her body was wasting away, her mind was still sharp and she could – and did — talk and laugh and cry with everyone. City Room: One Woman’s Dying Wish: A Monthlong Farewell Party 2014-01-13T19:24:30Z “She was incredibly weak, and I thought, “ ‘Oh, my God, my child is just wasting away.’ Why was this high school student losing weight and feeling so sick? 2013-11-18T22:16:09Z Overall, the focus on customer experience seems to be slowly wasting away, many visitors complain. Apple's New Retail Chief Is Not A Fashion Play 2013-10-15T23:34:00Z However, those given the compound showed no sign of brain tissue wasting away. Discovery 'may hold Alzheimer's key' 2013-10-09T20:15:33Z The extreme physical demands of the race meant they were wasting away from the inside out. Downfall of a Champion 2013-10-08T23:05:21Z Older people who hang onto their body mass are generally better off than older people who start wasting away. The Obesity Paradox 2013-10-01T16:19:00Z Though outwardly we are wasting away…inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 10 Bible Verses Obama Uses at Memorials 2013-09-22T11:20:27Z A teaching assistant described him as a "bag of bones" and the trial heard he was "wasting away". 'Missed opportunities' to help boy 2013-09-16T23:00:06Z Finally in May, restless that he was wasting away the Champions Tour season, he told one of the surgeons he needed to get to work and asked him what he would do. Rick Fehr comes home for Boeing Classic 2013-08-23T01:38:26Z First, he believed that “individuals should be rewarded for recycling” and second, he saw an opportunity – “many electronics still hold value but yet are wasting away in landfills.” Boston Start-up Gives Cash For High End Electronics 2013-01-24T12:11:22Z Though outwardly we are wasting away, inwardly, we are being renewed day by day. President Obama’s speech at prayer vigil for Newtown shooting victims (Full transcript) 2012-12-17T02:38:00Z Looking for something to play in the airport or during those countless hours wasting away on the tarmac? Top 5 Mobile RPGs For Thanksgiving 2012-11-21T21:29:22Z The costume contained the whole sprawling critique in one playful package: the recession, finance run amok, captured regulators, the betrayal and wasting away of the middle class. Mitt?s student loan flip-flop 2012-04-23T12:12:00Z Some preferred to see her as Gandhi, nonviolent, implacable, wasting away. IHT Rendezvous: Now, a Question of Tactics in Myanmar 2012-04-02T04:13:44Z It was gangrened with vice,—“wasting away in its deceitful lusts.” The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z “None of you seems to be wasting away,” retorted Jack. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z It has been observed that the island is gradually wasting away. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z A careful observer may witness the gradual wasting away and dilution into thin air of even great stretches of cloud, when circumstances are favourable. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z You don’t die of any particular illness, and you haven’t gradually been wasting away under the spell of some awful, enfeebling disease that began years or decades earlier. Should We Stop Trying To Cure Cancer? 2012-02-08T11:53:42Z I am gradually wasting away, and I shall not last a great while longer. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z Finding themselves wasting away before the small-pox and the Sioux, they moved up the river, and planted themselves opposite the Ricaras. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z She had taken quinine, both internally and externally, with little benefit, and was wasting away notably. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z It is supposed that the pointing of the bone causes a gradual wasting away of the victim until death takes place. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z At the Vatican his life-long adversary Pius IX was wasting away with a mortal disease. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z She had a long illness; she died of consumption, after eight years of confirmed invalidism and gradually wasting away. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z There stood the footstool on which I used to sit at her feet; and there stood the couch on which at last the lovely shadow leaned, when she was wasting away from our sight. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Legs wasting away, skin very dry and inelastic. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z In a few days she passed away quietly in her sleep without suffering, indeed she had suffered very little pain during the whole of her illness, just a gradual wasting away of the body. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z A former editor said the word made him think of people wasting away from tuberculosis, which happens to be Merriam-Webster’s first definition. Mall Rats Can’t Bring About the Wealth of Nations: Caroline Baum 2011-12-02T04:42:00Z The symptoms are, a diminution of rumination, wasting away of the body, and frequent snorting, obstruction of the nostrils with mucus of a greater or less thickness. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z His disease was called by the physicians marasmus, a wasting away of the vital powers, a sort of consumption, not merely of the lungs, but of the stomach and every thing else. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z They found Branwell at home, physically the same as when they left him, gradually failing from the chronic bronchitis which had lasted through the summer, and with the perceptible wasting away of decline. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z It passed from existence behind and about me as if it were annihilated, without wasting away in the opalescent appearance once familiar as that of a spreading fog. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The West will ultimately prevail; the temper of the East is rapidly wasting away, and the breach will soon be closed up. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z The falling off in flesh, or wasting away, of swine is in most cases owing to derangement in the digestive organs. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Our lives are wasting away, unless they are renovated by a truer spirit, and thus winning ever more than they lose. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z He was suffering, in addition to his chronic bronchitis, from marasmus, a consumptive wasting away, arising from hereditary tendency, as well as from mental agony and the effects of irregular life. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z We continued our route, wasting away, so that you might see us growing thinner every moment. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Before the study, he was weak, suffered repeated bouts of pneumonia and was wasting away. Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer 2011-09-12T21:31:22Z His head and cheeks were quite hairless; his wrinkled face was of a sickly grey tinge; his limbs seemed to be wasting away; his back was crooked; his knee was bent outwards, his chest inwards. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Helping illegal immigrants get scholarships would also dissuade more kids from dropping out of school and "wasting away," she says. Scholarships for the Undocumented: Will California's DREAM Come True? 2011-08-31T10:05:00Z Diglyme caused decreased sperm production, poor growth of fetuses, reduction in red blood cell count and wasting away of bone marrow, the spleen and the thymus gland. It's Glymes Time: EPA Takes on Obscure Chemicals in Consumer Products 2011-08-08T17:45:03.500Z The poor brutes could be seen wasting away, and this pained me more than anything. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Antony dear, I could not get well, but felt as if I was wasting away because I could not see him. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z From the hangman, from the prison, I may not be able to save my child, but perhaps I can save her from despair, from wasting away. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z I have been pining, languishing, wasting away with a desire to go fishing. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z "She is really wasting away from day to day." Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Admissions officers say they may be more inclined to accept students who are doing something with their summer other than wasting away on a couch. The Choice: When a Part-Time Job Is Your Extracurricular Activity 2011-07-06T16:44:46Z Likewise, he can take all the credit for reclaiming a life that was wasting away mostly in a cloud of smoke. The Reclamation Of Robert Garrigus 2011-06-28T04:00:00Z The growth of a thing from the simple to the complex, and the wasting away of the complex until it is simpler than ever. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z It had been fine dinners, and suppers, and fooleries of all kinds for weeks, and more weeks, and money wasting away like water running into sand. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z There it burned, white and faintly tremulous in the current of air caused by the hole in the shutter, slowly wasting away, but distinctly revealing her every movement to the watchful assassin without. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Their mother was the next to go, slowly growing weaker, and wasting away before the eyes of her husband, who was powerless to save her. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z It struck me after a time that my new "Violetta" was not wasting away in the fourth act of La Traviata alone. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z Land areas are continually wasting away, owing especially to the attacks of the streams, and the material removed is deposited in the sea. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z To think that you—you, Emilie, who have never for a single day been absent from my thoughts, should be wasting away your life among the yokels of an insignificant seaport town. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z "Simply a gradual wasting away and loss of strength." I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The wasting away of the poor woman was frightful. Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z This leads to an inability to control movement, and muscles wasting away. Brain disorder 'messaging clue' 2011-03-14T00:09:12Z The patient is a young girl in her sixteenth year, who is gradually wasting away with consumption. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z You are much smaller, and since you have taken to wearing black and indefinable gray gowns, you seem to be wasting away to nothing. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Even when he wrote this, he did not realise the worst; the truth was not forced on him till his wife had been "wasting away on the knowledge of it" for three weeks. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Daily—as if in a decline—he saw himself wasting away, for the vampire would suck the very marrow of his bones. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Fatigue was in the damp air, surely, but Spring was also there, and Lonesomeness, and worst of all, that desolating sense of patient, dying snow wasting away before one's eyes like Life itself. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z So had it been with his wife's illness; he saw her wasting away daily before his eyes, yet he closed them to the possibility that she might die. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z And so I have been wasting away for the last twenty years at your side like a condemned criminal. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z Where a well of the requisite virtue is not conveniently near, the favourite form of charm for wart-curing is in connection with the wasting away of some selected object. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Their yearlong ordeal as hostages wasting away in the jungle ended in tragedy when Gracia was rescued but Martin was killed; it was the Philippine Army’s 17th attempt to free them. Book Review - The Tenth Parallel - By Eliza Griswold 2010-08-21T06:00:00Z Innocent men spent years wasting away in a cage, with no due process of any kind, subjected to horrific and life-destroying abuse because of what Bybee authorized. Jay Bybee's sociopathic self-absorption 2010-07-16T13:17:00Z His patient was wasting away, losing 60 pounds over the course of eight months. How Microbes Defend and Define Us 2010-07-12T21:06:00Z "The notion of him sort of wasting away over there is really far-fetched," Kahn said in May. Rubio won't play in NBA before 2011; open to move 2010-06-04T23:28:00Z It almost always fails to be successful and the beautiful slugs just end up dying or slowly wasting away. Why Nudibranchs? And Readers' Questions 2010-06-01T20:01:00Z His hands shook with palsy, and his body was wasting away. Evan Thomas 'The War Lovers': Book Excerpt 2010-04-30T22:59:00Z Or, in absence, have you forgotten that lover who, on your account, is wasting away? The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments But the medical warning could not be disregarded, and he could see for himself now how fast she was wasting away. Left on the Prairie See the blade hair turn gray, the strength of manhood wasting away, the eye growing dim, the body weak. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 You are visibly wasting away, and occasion us all very serious uneasiness. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 At such a rate of consumption the population of the island was rapidly wasting away. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Before her mother went to Europe, Mrs. Gray showed her that the poor little finger was wasting away, and would never grow like the others, unless Nelly would stop sucking it. Little Frankie and His Cousin There are among them fast and slow poisons, poisons that will kill almost instantly and others that are guaged in strength to accumulate and resemble wasting away and slow death. The Social Gangster Isle of Portland.—The peninsulas of Purbeck and Portland are continually wasting away. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology I could not but see that he was rapidly wasting away, a prey to that terrible disease, consumption. Fragments of an Autobiography “How can I be, my child, knowing as I do that my little bit of property is slowly wasting away, and—” “Here’s the urn, aunt,” cried Laura. Blind Policy We were anxious to leave behind us that miserable country, where our animals were wasting away daily, and where we had ourselves met with such fatigue and misery. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] He is excited—and seems to be wasting away. The Social Gangster They were wasting away under Free Trade and the sugar bounties. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses It is at present twenty miles long, by about a mile wide, and is wasting away rapidly. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History Mrs. Thorn’s husband and six children had died with consumption, and now the last, and youngest, on whom the mother had depended for aid, was wasting away with the same disease. Doctor Bolus and His Patients Here am I, a d�tenu,—and have been these two years and a half—wasting away existence at Verdun, while my property is going to the devil from sheer neglect. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II His cheek grew paler, and his frame seemed wasting away, while his impaired strength and tottering step betrayed that something more than sorrow was at work within him. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I Here amid surroundings marked by a simplicity due less to simple tastes than poverty Poe lived and wrote by the side of the delicate wife who was wasting away before his eyes. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations Had he not once before beheld a being wasting away in the constant longing for the eternal home and yet destined never to find rest? Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians If I moan in my chilly dungeon, do thou in her arms think of me, of me wasting away and thinking only of thee; of me whom the earth is about to cover again.’ La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages If the freedmen were a race like the Indians, wasting away by unseen laws through the mere contact of the white man, the case would be very different. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 She is preceded by a man of a pallid and impure appearance, seemingly wasting away under some severe disease, except that his eye sparkles, and has not the dulness usual to such. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The thought of feeding inferior creatures was repugnant, but it was better than rotting to feed monocells or ectogenes, and far superior to wasting away in space. Anything You Can Do! I'm wasting away to a mere shadow trying to keep my balance in this wedge. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida During all this time the strength of his flying foe had been wasting away. Alexander the Great Makers of History See how they die off, not from hunger or fever, for we have enough to eat, but wasting away and dying from home-sickness, and because they have nothing to live for. Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow But the sight of her only child wasting away from sheer want, had at last broken down her pride. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly That is why the accounts of the two Syrians do not fare alike; Shakib’s is gaining in weight, Khalid’s is wasting away. The Book of Khalid The natives had sufficient intelligence to perceive that the colonists were fast wasting away. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots The Germans let him go because he was simply wasting away on the horrible food they gave him to eat, and he's like a skeleton now. The Education of Eric Lane It was a beautiful sight, the three young girls just bursting into womanhood, with their earnest and pure natures, ministering to the faint old man who was fast wasting away from this earthly being. The Elm Tree Tales Poor Mrs. Flannery was almost overcome with sorrow as she saw her boy wasting away and sinking lower and lower as each day passed by. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street I saw lovely girlhood wasting away into thin and hopeless age. A Son of the Middle Border Medicines and physicians were powerless in presence of this organic wasting away, the cause of which could not be discovered. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories To prevent the wasting away of the carbon by combination with oxygen the filament is enclosed in a glass bulb from which practically all air has been sucked by a mercury pump before sealing. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use From this house we went on to one where the father, mother, and children were all having a meal—a poverty-stricken family again, where one of the children was wasting away with fever. In the Tail of the Peacock I was in despair at this wasting away, but she, though touched by my sorrow, only smiled at me sweetly and sadly with the fatal smile of those who feel their death approaching. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Marasmus is a condition in which the ingested food seems to fail to nourish the body and gradual wasting away occurs. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying We had become so entranced by the boy, his doubts and fears, that we rose reluctantly to follow the gaunt youth, whose bodily and mental strength seemed wasting away in that atmosphere of baleful repose. Through Finland in Carts If we deprive him of this power, his strength will be continually wasting away, and the spirit and courage of his men waning. Hannibal Makers of History Wasting, wasting away, she withered away, fell ill and had to keep to her bed.... The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Opposite,—fortunately, photograph from the figure itself, so that you can suspect me of no exaggeration,—is Michael Angelo's Cumaean Sibyl, wasting away. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving Even now the precious moments are wasting away. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... The only instance among them of chronic sequels to those complaints occurred in an old man almost in dotage, whose feeble remains of life were wasting away by an ulceration of the lungs. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage The result is, he and his companions are wasting away on an island, without any chance of return. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary I had reserved 1,000 cruzados for my own expenses, which I considered as quite sufficient, but they were gradually wasting away, for I was everywhere received, and in the best company of Rio. The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago I knew that what I ate was barely sufficient to sustain life, and I felt that I was fast wasting away. The Boy Tar Breaking hearts are all poets’ nonsense, Percy, but poor Myra is slowly wasting away from misery and unhappiness. Witness to the Deed No more searching of books; no more wasting away of health and strength in the pursuit of knowledge; no more going to learned men, as the beggar goes to the rich for bread. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus "They said, that your force was wasting away by famine and disease; that your supplies could not hold out above a fortnight; that your granaries were empty, and your hospitals filled." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 It is earnestly hoped that, instead of wasting away, they will, by their own efforts, establish for themselves a condition of respect, ability, and prosperity. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The Stoltzfoos stake of silver and gold cowries was wasting away. Blind Man's Lantern The thought of succumbing to inferior creatures was repugnant, but it was better than rotting to feed monocells or ectogenes, and far superior to wasting away in space. Anything You Can Do ... Both parties had narratives to give of disaster; and gloom impenetrable still hung over the feeble colony, so rapidly wasting away. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago For the same reason that the afflicted are looked upon by the pure-minded as sacred, Margaret regarded her sister with a reverence which preserved her patience from being spent, and her attachment from wasting away. Deerbrook It seems a gradual wasting away and weakness. A Little Girl in Old Quebec He has no fever, or pain in his head, but he is wasting away, and some one else will enjoy my kingdom! Italian Popular Tales There are faculties and powers which are wasting away, sacred endowments which have lost their vital circulation. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year They have scared away our game—my people are wasting away. Diary in America, Series Two The first symptom of Wet Beri-Beri is a swelling of the legs, like dropsy; that of Dry Beri-Beri is a wasting away of the limbs. The Philippine Islands It is the one real thing amidst a world of others which are wearing and wasting away and therefore in a true sense unreal. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles One of the slaves named Charity had been sick a long time, just wasting away. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 "I see you wasting away before my very eyes." The Carpenter's Daughter The elder of the two, Harriet Culliford, about twelve years of age when she died, had been for many months wasting away in consumption. A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part I've been kept waiting so long I'm wasting away to a mere shadow. Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie It is, down to the present time, wasting away; and that there are inhabitants at all seems in the main referable to merely accidental causes. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Some had been long there, wasting away from day to day, and now lay quiet, though suffering, from sheer exhaustion. The Red Eric I had reserved 1000 cruzados for my own expenses, which I considered as quite sufficient, but they were gradually wasting away, for I was everywhere received, and in the best company of Rio. The Privateersman A little low room, with one small window, and no furniture in it, except an old rickety bedstead, upon which lay a woman about thirty years old, wasting away in a consumption. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Their spirit was broken, they became humble and degraded, and the race was rapidly wasting away. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country It is a shameful truth that not only the power and strength of this country are wasting away and expiring, but her well-earned glories, her true honor and substantial dignity, are sacrificed. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Alcestis is wasting away, and fading with swift disease, while her distracted husband holds her in his arms, entreating impossibilities. Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Because he is haunted perpetually by the countenances of his daughters, on which he reads sorrowfully written that they are wasting away for lack of the bedchamber apiece promised them by their mother. The Opinions of a Philosopher He was wasting away fast; getting thin, old, and yellow; and his father and all his friends were afraid that he would die. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know "You thought I was wasting away in a shirtwaist factory!" she laughed. The Fifth Wheel A Novel For several weeks the work continued, while the wretched inhabitants were fast wasting away with hunger. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico We'll go, surely, in place of keeping a watch on a love had no match and it wasting away. Irish Plays and Playwrights I grieve to say he looks to me as if wasting away. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle She is wasting away in a silent, hidden combat between herself and her friends. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 I observed scattered in the forest small mounds of mud, wasting away to the level of the ground; there were many of them; the birds perch thereon. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government For fourteen days the siege went on, Alfred's army, no doubt, daily increasing, that of his foe wasting away before the ceaseless flight of arrows and javelins. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Subject to its inevitable power, the organization is continually wasting away and continually being repaired. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls As has already been stated, in some persons Seminal Disease and Losses of Vital Fluid lead to a wasting away, shrinking or dwindling of the Generative Organs. Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. I can affirm without any exaggeration that I could see him wasting away under the ceaseless moral blows dealt to him, and that the mental torment he went through undoubtedly shortened his life. In the World War "There's a report that you're gradually wasting away from lack of pie and cake." The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films By wasting away, the length of the arc increases and likewise its resistance, until finally insufficient current will pass to maintain the arc. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization Her baby too, her only comfort, was wasting away before her eyes, whether of disease or for lack of food, she did not tell, and there was none to help her. Effie Maurice Or What do I Love Best He is losing flesh and strength every day, and is fast wasting away. Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Symptoms.—The only difference is that the patients are younger in acute forms, the course is more rapid and the wasting away is more marked. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada My 149body is ill; and wasting away but I am well. The Women of the Arabs Through countries enamelled of nature's best offerings, as fine as ever spread out before the eye of man, we travelled; but all seemed wasting away in the inertness of bad government. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth The death of a daughter, long and slowly wasting away before his eyes, could be calmly borne. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse Here I am rooted to one spot," he said, "fossilized, stagnant, wasting away, dead to the whole world except this one little acre. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope Was this wasting away the result of a drug? A Short History of France Why, the good king shows his love for her in his tender glances, and he has been wasting away, as if he were losing sleep. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works As years passed on, Alfred found his army diminishing, and the strength of his kingdom wasting away. King Alfred of England Makers of History This picture of the sinking of the heart, of the wasting away of the body and mind, of the gradual failure of all the faculties under the contagion of a rankling sorrow, cannot be surpassed. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution For five years Christine had seen her mother grow thinner and paler, wasting away a little bit each day until she became a mere shadow. His Masterpiece In the close room at the top of the old tenement house little Lucy lay wasting away with a relentless disease. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories We are wasting away—we are dying every day beside each other. The Pilot and his Wife Pine, ix, 35, wasting away; viii, 40, pined, wasted away through torment. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I All unheeded the tides of life surged in the world above him, while his mind with his body was wasting away in the long agony. The Empire of Russia Miss Biddy, I’m wasting away like a farthing candle in the dog-days—I’m going down to my snug grave through your cruelty. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841 He had sat and sung, and looked in vain for his Nereid, while she, like a true Nereid, was wasting away with her lake, sinking as it sank, withering as it dried. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know For since you set sail for Pylos, they say he has not eaten or drunk or gone about his work, but sits in his house sorrowing and wasting away with grief.” The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) I permitted myself to descend to it, that I might gain a moment's time to plead with you for the heart which is wasting away beneath your coldness. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue I'll never ask satisfaction again either in bed or board, but to be wasting away with watercresses and rising up of a morning before the sun rises in Babylon! Three Wonder Plays In December, 1846, Father Mathew wrote to Mr. Trevelyan, then secretary of the treasury, that men, women, and children were gradually wasting away. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times And he stopped there through the length of a year, and he was wasting away, but he told no one the cause of his sickness. Gods and Fighting Men He stared fixedly at the small flushed face, which looked more elfin than ever now that the flesh was wasting away.... V. V.'s Eyes The substance of Odysseus was wasting away; for day after day the wooers came thronging to the house, a hundred strong, and feasted at the expense of its absent master, and drank up his wine. Stories from the Odyssey Nervous pains began again in her arms and neck, and she experienced the same wasting away of the very substance of her being, of the protecting envelope of the unconscious. Evelyn Innes He was some weeks wasting away, and I took care of him always half the night. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Honey and wine are plentiful there, and everything the eye has ever seen; no wasting will come on you with the wasting away of time; you will never see death or lessening. Gods and Fighting Men It is not such a cry as comes from those who are suddenly hurled out of life, but a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away. The Abominations of Modern Society No man wasting away with consumption could stuff like that. The Chums of Scranton High out for the Pennant I have often considered objects which were wasting away. Romance of the Rabbit It is earnestly hoped that instead of wasting away they will by their own efforts establish for themselves a condition of respectability and prosperity. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson There is no race which yields so many victims to love; for, though suicide is rare, the gradual wasting away which is called consumption is very Prevalent. Recollections of My Youth This prevents the zinc wasting away when no current is being used. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do With nothing to eat, nothing to burn, nothing wherewith to clothe themselves, wasting away from exposure and disease, we can only wonder at the forbearance which stayed the hand of violent seizure so long. George Washington, Volume I A rapid wasting away, as I am informed. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney Provisions were wasting away, and some had been reduced to the last alternative of subsisting on the oxen alone. Death Valley in '49 Dear Lord," he said, "there's only room for seventy-five of thy little lambs that are pining and wasting away in every dark street and alley like mine. Alone in London The child had no definite disease, but was wasting away, and it was argued to her that the returning spring would restore the health lost during the winter. Annie Besant An Autobiography When his health failed for a time in Philadelphia, and he seemed wasting away to a shadow, his physician recommended tobacco. Isaac T. Hopper It was really the morbid wasting away that suddenly attacks people of the abundant, food-yielding countries. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel They could only look sadly at him and pass on in silence, for he seemed fast wasting away. Death Valley in '49 It is a grief that mortal eyes cannot see; it is only keenly felt; its tears are the wasting away of health, and its lamentation is the low beating of a sinking pulse. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 A few steps and we reach a cottage, where other parents were watching over a little son of five years, who is wasting away with consumption. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland The struggle is hard and slow, and in carrying it on they are wasting away and growing fewer in numbers. Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People The income of the company might be wasting away, and the loss never suspected until the quarterly returns from the meters were obtained from the inspectors. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 It really is driving me crazy; I feel that I'm wasting away; My brain is becoming more hazy, My appetite less every day. Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse All the spring time she languished; the summer came, the roses bloomed, and the grain began to ripen, but she was wasting away. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West From that time, with each month, week, and day that passed, Sergius felt his own inner life wasting away and being replaced by external life. Father Sergius A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character were the unusual diagnosis. The Fall of the House of Usher I saw, sir, that his wife was wasting away, beneath cares of which she never complained, and griefs she never told. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people The rest of the women seem to be marked out for apoplexy, and the rest of the men to be wasting away. James Pethel It went to my heart to see this fine old fellow wasting away before my eyes. Round the Red Lamp Ten days he lay there,—a swift week and three endless days, wasting, wasting away. The Souls of Black Folk He would lie there and cough and cough, day and night, wasting away to a mere skeleton. The Jungle While I was deferring the time of our departure from day to day, I was gradually losing strength, and, although I did not perceive it, my vital forces were slowly wasting away. The Confession of a Child of the Century She was, for the most part, silent; obeyed, when they begged her to eat, showed no outward signs of sorrow, but, for all that, was wasting away like a candle. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories He did not appear to be affected with any specific disease, but seemed gradually wasting away from an over-taxed mind and body. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men However ridiculous this fancy may appear, it had taken such hold of the man, that he was really wasting away—his appetite failing as well as his spirits. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 His muscles were wasting away, and what were left were soft and flabby. The Jungle Frail as she had ever seemed, her lungs were sound, and she spoke easily and with almost all her original force, so that her wasting away was not the consequence of anything pulmonary. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale The clothing and munitions of all kinds, either for maintenance or defence, were rapidly wasting away, and the want of all supplies or tidings from Spain was sinking the spirits of the well-affected into despondency. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) All of a sudden he fell ill, took to his bed, and moped for days, getting thin, and odd-looking, and yellow, and wasting away fast, so that they thought he must die. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland During his reign, intellectual life and health were infused into the country, and its powers, which had been so long wasting away, were revived and renewed. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities It was hard to see him wasting away before her eyes and keep cheerful looks in her face and an accent of cheerfulness in heir voice. Esther Waters The titles of their works were changed: they dealt with Spring, the South, Love, the Joy of Living, Country Walks; but the music never changed: it was uniformly soft, pale, enervated, anemic, wasting away. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Now is the critical moment and there must be no wasting away of your influence in unnecessary delay of conference. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him It is an excess; it is not a wasting away. Jean-Christophe, Volume I "Would my father's monomania account for the fact of my brother's hair turning grey and my mother wasting away to a mere shadow?" The Mystery of Cloomber It is all that is most private," Toff answered; "my poor master is wasting away in unrelieved wretchedness and suspense. The Fallen Leaves But God is as near His servant in the one place as in the other, and the slow wasting away is as much His messenger as the sudden apocalypse of the horsemen of fire. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes When his companion, the lame seaman, went away, Elder developed a form of melancholy, with hallucinations, and appeared to be wasting away from loss of sleep and appetite. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders As my flock was wasting away, I hid one day to see what took place. Malayan Literature In spite of all efforts, the Ottoman Power is rapidly wasting away. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The heartbroken old man saw his beloved child wasting away. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction I'm burning up like a candle, I'm wasting away because of love and pity for you, and yet I haven't once heard a kind word from you. Plays The calls of patriotism were not unheeded by the "chivalry" of the South; but what could patriotic gentlemen do when their estates were wasting away by litigation and unsuccessful farming? Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders The stranger was not only well advanced in life, but he was obviously wasting away with disease. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers Of old didst thou lose Homer:... now again another son thou weepest, and in a new sorrow art thou wasting away.... Adonais A wasting away of his whole physical substance ensued; and he died, almost suddenly, while in years he might be considered hardly past the prime of his life. Hawthorne and His Circle I'm simply wasting away now like some poor devil, on account of your business, sir; because I'm not that kind of a man, sir. Plays While the Indian allies of the French were wasting away beneath this atrocious warfare, the French themselves, and especially the travelling Jesuits, had their full share of the infliction. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century If insufficient food, or food lacking in foodstuffs for growth, is given to children, a wasting away of brain cells and muscle may take place and stunted growth will result. School and Home Cooking "What with fighting and hardship, our troops and militia are wasting away." Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV "You are accused of wasting away the tenants, because cattle and sheep are more profitable than people." The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland But I cannot see you wasting away before my eyes without wishing to help you. Greifenstein How it makes the heart ache to think of this little sufferer, wasting away, moaning with hunger, and sobbing for something to eat. History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra Indeed, he could see himself wasting away to a mere shadow through worry and dread. Green Fancy "Can a man, wasting away in a decline, discredit the fact that he is dying with every breath he draws?" The Broad Highway I remember the tender ambition which inspired me to win the encouraging sympathy of this sensitive woman, who was painfully wasting away amid the coarsest surroundings. My Life — Volume 1 You know what it is in this disease, as though the nerves were wasting away. The Treasure-Train "Menstruation is a periodic wasting away of those corpuscles that are too old to make a placenta." The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene The square was gradually wasting away, and occupied but half the ground which it had stood upon when the battle began. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War For with us 'old age' presents the idea of the gradual wasting away and deterioration of the powers of the body it is the shadow from the darkened future, foretelling the end of life. The Wedding Guest I feel as if my heart was wasting away. Basil Ironically, the only ultimate benefit of his fasting with me was to permit him to suffer a far longer existence in a wheelchair without wasting away and escaping into death. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor A flush remained upon her cheeks, in marked contrast to the pallor which for a long time had given her an appearance of wasting away. The Odd Women A graver trouble was the state of Jane's health; the sufferer seemed wasting away. Demos An independent vegetable existence, alive and vascular as my own flesh; capable of being wounded, bleeding, wasting away, or almost of repairing damages! Winter Sunshine It is probably wider than it was formerly, in many places, owing to the trees having been cut down, and the consequent wasting away of its banks. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The world processes by which rocks are continually wasting away are thus indispensable to the life of plants and animals. The Elements of Geology He has a racking cough, but endeavours, by stiffening himself up, to hide how it is wasting away his life. The Dynasts "God speed you, then, and deliver you from the malady that is wasting away my life!" Prince Eugene and His Times Then my father, seeing that he could do nothing, that I was wasting away, and was on the road to join my mother in the cemetery, decided to let me complete my folly. The Widow Lerouge "In that case," said the abbot, "you will give me your love, and gratify my passion for you, with which I am all afire and wasting away." The Decameron, Volume I We have seen that rocks are everywhere slowly wasting away. The Elements of Geology On the Slave Coast when a mother sees her child gradually wasting away, she concludes that a demon has entered into the child, and takes her measures accordingly. The Golden Bough Though shells were bursting over their houses and at their feet, though sickness was raging in their hospitals, and hunger was wasting away their kindred, they swore to resist for two weeks longer. Prince Eugene and His Times Even the merchant rose to something more than mere pillows, and the curtain fell on his pathetic assurance that in the absence of his dear Beauty he was wasting away to a shadow. The Enchanted Castle Nor would I be multiplied with worldly goods; wasting away time, and wasted by time; whereas I had in Thy eternal Simple Essence other corn, and wine, and oil. The Confessions of St. Augustine Not merely phthisis, but a cessation of functions and a wasting away of the organs most concerned in the vital processes. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 7: Miscellaneous There was no virulent disease of any particular organ, but he was slowly wasting away from atrophy, and he knew, or thought he knew, he should not recover. Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott And as for De Montespan, was she not wasting away into an old woman? Prince Eugene and His Times Hard to bear, that persistent standing still, and the food wasting away. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories An independent vegetable existence, alive and vascular as my own flesh; capable of being wounded, bleeding, wasting away, and almost of repairing damages! Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers And yet how many are there who go on in this course, without learning better from the daily, the hourly disappointments, listlessness, and satiety which accompany this fashionable method of wasting away their days! Human Nature and Other Sermons You've always got to wait, and wait, and wait—and here are the great wars wasting away for a hundred years, and you never get a chance. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Excretions such as this mean a violent wasting away of vitality and power. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes And, indeed, Clément was wasting away daily; for he had received other injuries, internal and more serious than that to his arm, during the mêlée which had ended in his capture. My Lady Ludlow Her love for the poor girl was infinitely distressed by seeing the daily wasting away, the constant heavy depression of spirits, and she grew impatient of the continual pain of sympathy. A Dark Night's Work I am wasting away; without hope, and tormented by thy beauty. Stories from the Pentamerone Who then shall call thy conduct into question? who blame thee for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as a wasting away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting energies? The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 I have heard of women, no longer young, wasting away because no man loved them. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story With their fuel wasting away and the climate changing imperceptibly, century by century.... Secret Places of the Heart The unhappy lady is wasting away with a fever for which we are powerless to supply a remedy, for the medicine-chest was lost when the ship began to sink. The Survivors of the Chancellor The unhappy lady is wasting away with a fever for which we are powerless to supply a remedy, for the medicine chest was lost when the ship began to sink. The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger She was slowly and steadily wasting away in a decline. Little Novels But I never heard of her wasting away. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story An independent vegetable existence, alive and vascular as my own flesh; capable of being wounded, bleeding, wasting away, or almost repairing damages! The New McGuffey Fourth Reader We passed down a few steps into an inner library where piles of early folios were wasting away on the ground. The Enemies of Books Turan almost cursed him as he saw the form of Tara of Helium slowly wasting away before his eyes, while the hideous kaldane seemed as full of vitality as ever. The Chessmen of Mars So slow, so eager, so bloodless and gaunt, I felt as if Richard were wasting away beneath the eyes of this adviser and there were something of the vampire in him. Bleak House |
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