I will not weary you with too detailed an account of the talk of a foolish youth who was also distressed and unhappy, and whose voice was balm for the humiliations that smarted in his eyes.
I now know from the information I obtain upon the spot, that the impressions that then distressed me, for I was proud of America, were but too well founded.
In the mean time I am distressed to see matters so badly conducted, and so little attention paid to moral principles.
There came a time, however, when good Master Hamnet Hyde was greatly distressed to find a grievous disease slowly yet surely creeping over him.
Now, not only was Master Hamnet Hyde distressed with this intelligence, and not only did his good wife Dame Joane, weep until her good looks were impaired, but the news also gave great pain throughout the parish.
My existence is a pain to myself, and every one near and dear to me are distressed in my distresses.
Through that experience his chivalrous feeling for women was developed into a quixotic readiness to be the champion of any woman whom he found distressed or slandered.
It was just at this moment that the Queen and the Fairy arrived in the flying chariot, and the Queen was dreadfully distressed at the turn affairs had taken, and said miserably that she was destined to be unfortunate all her days.
The King was so distressed when he heard it that he was almost overcome by grief.
And among them one thing that constantly preoccupied and distressed him--the numbness of his affections.
He was deeply distressed at the sight of poor Trilby's sufferings, and offered whiskey and coffee and gingernuts, which she would not touch.
Martha looked a little distressed at the idea of her kind father being considered cruel by the young lady, but she didn't know very well how to answer her.
He even stopped throwing stones at a wounded bird in a field when he saw it distressed her, though he laughed at her for being such a simpleton as to care for a half-dead bird.
I was distressed at first, and then I thanked God, who was delivering me from the torments of existence.
My lord married his daughter to the heir-presumptive to the English throne, and England, being by nature ungrateful, has distressed this worthy parent, while robbing him of all his possessions.
I had no intention of giving you pain; I am distressed at having done so.
If Francis had been made a duke, instead of merely trying to be a member of parliament, he would never have been ashamed of his past life, nor would he have been distressed or disturbed by the unexpected honour.
His father was dead by this time, as well as his eldest brother, so his heart was especial soft, and he looked sore distressed at my being in such a bad way.
Another resource to lighten the weight of anxiety and disappointment was found in Peggy's extraordinary gift in finding out distressed people, which even in her new residence, did not desert her.
Mrs. Phillips was astonished and distressedto see Elsie return with Brandon without Mrs. Peck.
Her husband had never found any fault with her in the bush of Australia; but her blunders before his father, brother, and sisters had distressed him so much that he had spoken to her many times rather sharply in private about them.
Every one will think that he gave you up, and will fancy you are so distressed about it.
This must surely have been a comical sight, but poor Mr. Tebrick was altogether too distressed then or at any time afterwards to divert himself at such ludicrous scenes.
Yet next morning when he woke he was distressed when he found that she was not in the bed with him but was lying curled up at the foot of it.
How quiet is he from the storms of trouble, and the sickness of mind, which others are distressed with!
You little know how lamentable and distressed a case you will be in, or how great an advantage the tempter hath, if once he do but tire you by overdoing!
I saw that he did not like the crayfish soup, and was distressed because he had so large a helping.
I had learned from my friends in Richmond that they were living and in good health, but greatly distressed on my account.
Madame de Sevigne was much distressed by the conduct of her son.
Although I was in ignorance of her indisposition, I remarked two or three times to Madame de Parabere[93] that I felt very distressed on her account.
Champmesle had been greatly distressed at having to renounce her triumphs and the adulation of the public.
A much-distressed bird came boldly up to me behind the glass, saying by his manner--and who knows but in words?
He went on reading and noticed comments the harshness of which distressed him beyond measure.
Philippe took refuge in a fierce silence that distressed his wife.
A vein swelling on the old man's temples distressed him beyond measure.
The kind physician at once relieved the distressed animal, nor did he forget to admire the inscrutable goodness and mercy of God, who had been willing to use so humble an instrument as the poor outcast poodle for the inculcating of, etc.
By sunrise I was out of my mind, and everybody marveled and was distressed at the idiotic burden of my ravings--"Punch!
Within half an hour, he had passed from a thoroughly distressed state of mind, to something so like perfect happiness, that it could bear no other name.
Seeing that she was distressed by the power of his mind, Ayrault once more sank to the floor, burying his face in his hands.
I fear, however, that my return to earth greatly distressed the waterer of the flowers you showed me.
Ayrault had noticed Sylvia's father and mother in church, but Sylvia herself was not there, and he was distressedto think she might be ill.
She warned me against skepticism, and seemed much distressed at my present spiritual state.
Thus no lover can return to earth till his fiancee has joined him here, or till, perceiving the benevolence of God's ways, he is not distressed at what he sees, and has the companionship of a host of kindred spirits.
He was equally surprised and distressed to find that they treated his petition with contempt, and ridiculed his fears.
Then was it not high time for him to leave his banqueting, for application of a remedy in haste, and to give speedy order for succouring of his distressed household?
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