1.   He was also a brave man, taking personal risks to comfort the sick during an outbreak of plague.

2.   She is planning a scholarly study of mercy, how a society should feed its hungry and comfort its sick.

3.   She zipped her lip, quit moaning about the prince and got on with what she did best, comforting the sick.

4.   With the terror of AIDS abated by drugs and activism, Mitulski and his church have moved from comforting the sick to feeding and housing the poor.