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Meanings of incurable complaint in English

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Usage of incurable complaint in English
1
He is not really ill, but he has an incurable complaint-oldage.
A Crooked Path: A Novel
2
The woman with an incurable complaint touched me on the knee.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
3
He had an incurable complaint, and his death followed close upon his son's.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
4
For years he has been suffering from an incurable complaint which gave him great pain.
The Secret Passage
5
Well, 't is not an incurable complaint.
The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche
6
I suffer from an incurable complaint, Mr. Jennings, and my doctor tells me I shall die soon.
The Secret Passage
7
I fear it is an incurable complaint!
The Fortunes of the Farrells
8
Though suffering under an incurable complaint, he was everywhere seen marshalling his troops and encouraging them by his exhortations.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
9
He suffered, as he had told Jennings, from an incurable complaint, and there was no chance of his recovering.
The Secret Passage
10
All Ghikas, he said, suffered badly from the same incurable complaint- aholein the pocket- adisease ,alas ,commonto many other honest men!
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
11
"I spend my life watching people die, not of their disease, but of another bad and incurable complaint-thewant of money," said the doctor.
Poor Relations
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Incurable complaint across language varieties
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