Example Sentences

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We must pay for our privileges, and if a town is built in a hollow, and is sheltered from the east wind, the chances are that its climate will be enervating.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

In my life as a sainted prophet, I shall have somewhat too much of this; it will be enervating and sickening, and I shall need another kind of diet.

From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel