The episode left him in a condition of nervous prostration, the more so as he by now had five children to support.
After such a period he was left exhausted, sometimes near to nervous prostration.
Well, let me tell you it was a wonder I didn't fall down on the spot in a state of nervous prostration.
I had found my way to the free public library, and was reading myself into nervous prostration.
And he wouldn't lift a finger to keep the boy from working himself into nervous prostration.
"Of nervous prostration following a great loss or waste of blood."
"You look as though you are on the verge of nervous prostration."
He died in 1880 in an asylum after a short period of nervous prostration.
The emperor would be in a state of nervous prostration for a week.
A note of three words does not suffice to keep me from having nervous prostrations.