Aghast this whirlwind of distress to view, “O, Jove!
Can we be so unreasonable as to expect she will distress her own Natives, to encourage those in Ireland, as if they had not Sense to consider, that their Charity, as well as ours, should ever begin at home?
The invalids, excited and uneasy, are irritated at not being understood, to the great distress of the family whose sympathetic kindness is received with the bad humour that fever and suffering often call forth.
In their distress they beg for help which is not given.
He himself had nothing to read, but that did not distress him.
Don't distressyourself about me, Ruth; I have my work for consolation.
I hope nothing fresh has happened to distress you.
Ireland was politically tranquil, and the distressdue to the failure of the crops had been alleviated by the combined action of Englishmen irrespective of party.
The distress was peculiarly acute at the Docks, where work is precarious and uncertain in the highest degree.
His distressbecame so intolerable, that he applied to Dr.
To assist industrious indigence, struggling with distress and debilitated by age, is a display of virtue, and an acquisition of happiness and honour.
Let not that distress you," said I, "for I can relieve you of that difficulty until the king's convalescence enables him to undertake the pleasing office of assisting your wishes.
She desires me to thank you most humbly for your gracious condescension: she is in violent distress for the severe loss she has experienced, and begged my excuse for quitting me suddenly, as she had to superintend the stuffing of the deceased.
My poor houris, dreading some fatal drama of the usual Turkish character, had indeed passed through a cruel time of distress and anguish.
Overwhelmed with distress when I perceived the possibility of losing Kondjé-Gul, I almost thought I should go mad.
Among other petitions a rough draft exists of one evidently prepared by the Marchioness herself; whether sent or not cannot now be ascertained, but of its authenticity as a family record of distress there can be no doubt whatever.
While his own and the public distress thus gradually lessened every prospect of success, one last ray of hope seemed to present itself to the unhappy monarch.
There was never any need to distress her by a relation of the morbid fancies which afflicted me when I was a boy, and which, perhaps, were the foundation of the profound melancholy which, after sunset, has lately crept upon me.
Will you pardon me for the question whether you believe that to be really so--whether his answer to your solicitous inquiry was not prompted by his desire not to trouble or distress you?
She stood still at that, looking at him, her blue eyes full of distress and concern.
Glancing down at her the Southerner could not but note the panic and distress in her fair face.
I began to offer it; but my distress and confusion of mind were such that in the middle of a set phrase I broke off, and stood looking fixedly at him, my trouble so plain that he asked me civilly if anything ailed me.
Salzburg during the wars of Frederick the Great against Bavaria and France was frequently occupied by one or other of the contending nations, and was reduced to a state of poverty and distress from which it was a long time recovering.
The tranquillity and happiness which she had experienced a few hours ago were all gone, and her mind was filled, instead, with an undefined and mysterious distress and terror.
Jemmy's distresswas owing much more to his alarm and his sense of guilt, than to the actual pain of the injury which he had suffered.
On these occasions distress is laid before us with all its causes and consequences, and our resentment placed according to the merit of the person afflicted.
Khonds in distress often sold their children for victims, 'considering the beatification of their souls certain, and their death, for the benefit of mankind, the most honourable possible.
Pandora joyfully, passing in a moment from distress to delight.
Forsooth, Father, you do indeed distress me," said he.
She "grievously bewailed" herself, and, as people often do, nursed her distress as if it were something very dear and precious.
The wound was an ugly one, and the father was in great distress of mind for fear hydrophobia would set in.
One dream was to the effect "that all my [his] children were dead except Sarah, which did distress me sorely with reflections on my omissions of duty towards them as well as breaking of the hopes I had of them.
Another of the signs is, "Great distress in the world, so that a man when he passes by another's grave shall say, Would to God I were in his place!
He would have liked to take the child in his arms and soothe her distress as one would have petted a bird fallen from the nest, or a truant, beaten dog.
He could not forget the distress in the eyes that had looked out from the pale oval face.
And in the midst of his discontent there arose within him the memory of the haunting distress in the young girl's large eyes, and he was filled with warm, eager compassion for the poor, forlorn creature for whom there was no one to care.
In the midst of her distress she was overpowered by intense fatigue: her eyelids drooped above her eyes, and with her nightly prayer still on her lips she fell asleep.
In some distress Erika looked down at her shabby gown, made out of an old dressing-gown of her mother's, black, with a Turkish border.
The strange resemblance flashed like an arrow through Alyosha’s mind in the distress and dejection of that moment.
It’s not easy to believe that it could cost you such distress to confess such a secret.
He foresaw with distress that something very unseemly was beginning and that there were positive signs of disobedience.
Her face beamed with delight, to the great distress of Alyosha, but Katerina Ivanovna suddenly returned.
Don’t distress yourself about my opinion of you,” said the elder.
The cords of death ringed me round, And the narrows of Sheol found me, Distress and trouble did I find.
Distress and anguish have found me, Thy commandments are my delight.
His eye looks on Israel's distress with pity, and every sorrow on which He looks He desires to remove.
The word rendered narrows may be employed simply as = distress or straits, but it is allowable to take it as picturing that gloomy realm as a confined gorge, like the throat of a pass, from which the psalmist could find no escape.
