sickly

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• Martinus Beijerinck, a Dutch microbiologist and botanist, demonstrated that viruses cause disease by experimenting with sap from sickly tobacco-plant leaves during the 19th century.

• Born in 1928, Walter Tevis was a sickly, unhappy child, confined for many months to a hospital bed and dosed with addictive phenobarbital because of rheumatic heart disease.

• The problem, it turned out, was that the algorithms’ designers assumed that patients who spent more on health care were more sickly and needed more help.

• Bennett was sickly and needed full-time medical care, so Ada took him to an orphanage while trying to earn enough money to provide for her son by sewing for the prospectors who were the lifeblood of the violent and rough-edged Alaskan city.

• Furthermore, use the bones from healthy looking game animals that you’ve taken and avoid using the bones from sickly ones.

• Neruda suffered from cancer, and he looked unwell, with a sickly yellow glow.

• At 9:03, the second plane banked sickly toward the south tower as the world watched on television.

• How did your family react to seeing you so skinny and sickly looking?

• A hunter comes across a sickly gorilla, too weak to defend itself from the blows of his cleaver.

• Seconds later my friend picked me up in front of the truck stop, his face a sickly shade of white.

• If the father is old or , the son sleeps near him by night, and does not leave his presence by day.