The skin and flesh smoked and crackled under the terrible infliction.

The terrible infliction has tried her soul, and she has been purified as by fire.

Be patient; we will elucidate this mystery, and the motive of this terrible infliction upon her.

I make the assertion because I know it will not a little console you, under this terrible infliction.

Confinement was bad enough; but confinement tempered by a course of continual sermons, delivered mostly through the nose, was a terrible infliction.

Their talk, indeed, on the way home, would have been a terrible infliction upon an outsider, had one been of the company.

He was constitutionally fastidious, and had to school himself to become able to put up with the terrible inflictions of uncongenial fellowships.

"Ah, yes, it is a terrible infliction."