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What would be idleness in another is for him a storing of forces; what in an ordinary man would be malingering and procrastination, is for the writer the repose necessary to allow his energies to concentrate themselves upon his chosen work. June 8, 1889. I have been looking at a catalogue, this morning, of the publications of a firm that is always bringing out new editions of old writers.
I was now coughing badly and felt quite ill. Same medicine, same result; I really should have been admitted to the sick bay but was not. Reporting sick for the third time brought accusations of malingering; at no time had I seen either of the two doctors on board, the diagnosis had been made by an NCO of the RAMC, so I soldiered on. Some of our convoy separated from us and docked there.
Terribly nauseous was the draught he insisted on my swallowing; nor would he leave me till every drop had gone down, and then I rushed off to the berth and threw myself on a locker to luxuriate in the flavour, which nothing I could take would remove from my mouth. It was the first and last time I ever made an attempt at malingering.
With set jaws and an angry spot glowing in his gaunt cheeks, he stared wickedly around him and then at the Messenger. "You do miracles, they say. Can't you do one now?" "I don't know, sir. Who is this deserter?" "Roy Allen a sullen, unwilling dog always malingering. He's spent half the time in the guardhouse, half in the hospital, since he arrived with the recruits.
Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph. A little occasional talk about half-crowns, oysters, or any other extraneous subject produces a pleasing effect of delirium." "But why would you not let me near you, since there was in truth no infection?" "Can you ask, my dear Watson? Do you imagine that I have no respect for your medical talents?
But on Punchard's remarking one day that he believed Vetch was malingering, it came out that he had not been seen by his roommates for nearly a week. Was it possible that while we had been merely thinking of escape, Vetch had found a means of escaping? It seemed impossible, and when I was having my daily conversation with the soldiers of the guard, I asked point blank what had become of him.
The only way in which the invalid could clear herself from the suspicion of malingering, as it is called in the army, was to go on lacing and unlacing till she fell down dead at the royal feet. "This," Miss Burney wrote, when she was suffering cruelly from sickness, watching, and labour, "is by no means from hardness of heart; far otherwise.
Then the words of one of the "pulpit thunderers" of New York rolled back on his ears "This world will be destroyed, not by the hand of God, but by the wilful and devilish malingering of Man!" Another pleasant thought!
He held by the side as he came, and saluted. "I felt sick, sir, and was trying to get the scuttle open." The heads were all raised along the silent line, and eyes and ears were eager to see and listen. The double tier of bunks looked terribly like a row of wild beast cages at that moment. Maurice Frere stamped his foot indignantly. "Sick! What are you sick about, you malingering dog?
You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there malingering. There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it a blind man! And I'm to lose my chance for you! I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still."
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