Sentences with phrase «sickly young»
Speaking of iffy practices, in 1892, citizens of Exeter, R.I., exhumed the body of Mercy Brown, recently dead of tuberculosis, and fed the ashes of her heart and liver to her sickly younger brother.
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Moody, downbeat tale about a Southern teen (Jamie Bell) who runs away from home with his sickly younger brother after their greedy uncle kills their father.
Undertow tells the story of a Southern family: a soft - spoken father, John (Dermot Mulroney), a troublesome older boy, Chris (Jamie Bell), and a sickly younger boy, Tim (Devon Alan); their mother has long ago passed on.
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From the start, it was clear that young Alfons would never be a farmer; sickly from birth, he was baptised swiftly as his chances of life were not hopeful.
If you had to distill someone larger than life into a few vulgar paragraphs, you would have to mention Bryant's hardscrabble upbringing in Moro Bottom, Ark., as one of 12 kids of a sickly father and a mother whom young Paul accompanied on her rounds selling produce from a wagon.
6 Young René Descartes was a sickly child.
The young children I've seen on this diet are very sickly looking and I worry about the extremely negative consequences of this diet such as accidental ketosis.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine begins in 1845 in the room of a young sickly boy named James Logan with his father Thomas and friend Victor Creed near by.
When a young woman moves into a large Victorian home to become the caretaker to her aging, sickly grandmother, she soon finds herself sleepwalking and having strange visions and is forced to confront her family's darkest secrets before the evil presence in the house overtakes her sanity.
The dark thriller stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman in 1867 Paris whose aunt, Madame Raquin, is forcing her into an arranged marriage with her rich, but sickly, first cousin (Tom Felton).
Olsen stars in the 1860s Paris - set thriller as the titular character, a beautiful but sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage with Camille (Felton), her sickly cousin.
When a young woman gives birth to a deformed and sickly child, she becomes the victim of cruelty and superstition in her Ghanaian community.
Elizabeth Olsen is Therese, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton) by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange).
But the war against Germany changes plans, as Joey gets handed off from two young German brothers that desert their front, to a sickly but brave French girl living with her protective grandfather.
At one point in the sickly sweet Lars And The Real Girl, a fresh - faced young woman who still has barrettes in her hair and hearts on her socks weeps in quiet despair because an officemate has killed her teddy bear.
In Georges Bernanos» novel The Diary of a Country Priest, a sickly, humble, and idealistic young priest pays the ultimate price for the spiritual lethargy of his parish, while Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) in John Michael McDonagh's brilliant...
That is to take one of the most blunt storytelling cliches, «Hey, the fashion industry sucks the life out models and turns bright young things into sickly ghouls,» and the challenge is to apply such brilliant cinematic craft to the proceedings to make it appear more than what it is, akin to putting the glittery gemstones on Elle Fannings temple and cheeks.
«However, if the patient is extremely young with a naive immune system, elderly, sickly or at risk of the infection progressing into pneumonia, then antibiotics may be necessary.»
In a multi-pet home, it may be difficult for the sickly or elderly pet to eat without the younger pets taking his food.
The young, weak, old and sickly are vulnerable to being attacked and eaten.
Reviewers say Dr. Elsey's is great for their elderly and sickly cats, but also love it for younger and healthy cats as well.
Imagine a Bavarian cream, then replace the sickly yellow custard with a naturally sweet, velvety glob of young coconut.
In physics we have a young sickly lad at Woolsthorp Manor: Issac Newton, another lab apprentice: John Tyndall, a telephone engineer: Nikola Tesla, a young Swiss patent clerk: Albert Einstein, and a pair of high school dropout / bicycle mechanics: The Wright Brothers to name just a few.