1 R. C. Teuton (54 Court Road, Frampton Cotterell BS36 2DN): To —— I afflict with obi etc (comp. anag. & lit).. 2 P. L. Stone (7 Appleby Court, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire HG5 9LU): Spell after tea without runs, pitch losing a bit of pace (b(r)ew + (p itch).
When I was in my early twenties, I became afflicted with what I deemed "post-college marriage mania".
I'm too sad to be eloquent!" James Dwyer: "When I was a teenager, I was afflicted by terrible nightmares.
"I was afflicted with it as a child, and I was very fortunate that I escaped without lasting effects.
I'm not ashamed to admit I'm afflicted with writer separation anxiety.
At least, I am afflicted now, or have been the hundreds or thousands of times I have remembered this incident.
But within one year I was prohibited to read any more by my doctor, since I was afflicted with an eye disease.
At this point, I am afflicted by the uneasy suspicion that my American readers, if perchance I have any, will condemn this small commentary for its confessed, its flaunted lack of that kind of wearisome research of which Americans, in their desperate and deplorable love of fact, are so intensely avid.
I was afflicted with nightmares of being chased down and captured, and many nights I scrambled into the warm cleft of mattress between them, then held my breath and lay perfectly still until they had rolled over and gone back to sleep.
I am afflicted with ancestors and relatives.
