| 1. | A Thoracic seldom has any kind of chronic ailment. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 2. | This gives him a chronic feeling of heaviness and inertia. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 3. | I lived in a state of chronic uneasiness respecting my behavior to Joe. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | It was clear to me at a glance that he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | There are marked symptoms of chronic exhibitionism. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | There would have to be a long period of chronic symptoms which would at once have attracted my attention. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 7. | The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 8. | This type has no physical characteristics which can be called liabilities except the tendency to chronic diseases. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 9. | The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |