Among some distressful emergencies that I have experienced in life, I ever laid this down as my foundation of comfort--That he who has lived the life of an honest man, has by no means lived in vain!
Great was the grief and pity aroused throughout England, and through all lands where knighthood was held in honor, by this distressful event, for never before had two such faithful lovers breathed mortal air.
She uttered a low, distressful cry, and, gliding swiftly into her room, for the first time in her young life turned the key between them.
On this peculiar Saturday afternoon in May, Kristian Koppig had been witness of the distressful scene over the way.
There was no tinge of insanity discernible in her manner to the most observant eye; not even in those distressful periods when the premonitory symptoms had apprised her of its approach, and she was making preparations for seclusion.
I am afraid we are not placed out of the reach of future interruptions; but I am determined to take what snatches of pleasure we can, between the acts of our distressful drama.
I did consent, And often did beguile her of her tears When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd.
The King, that calls your beauteous daughter wife, Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother; Again shall you be mother to a king, And all the ruins of distressful times Repair'd with double riches of content.
The more he perplexed his mind with such questions, the deeper grew the darkness of the inexplicable dilemma, to which a fresh obscurity was now added in his suddenly distinct and distressful remembrance of the "Pass of Dariel.
Nay, wherefore did I let it haunt my mind, This dark, distressful dream?
His meeting with some of his Countrymen, and their distressful Voyage.
Behind her the patient was making distressful sounds.
Sir Isaac had been very fond and insistent and inseparable, and she was doing her best to conceal a strange distressful jangling of her nerves which she now feared might presently dispose her to scream.
There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings.
This strange word seemed first to hold him in distressful suspense and then to infuriate him.
The boatman paus'd, methought I heard A child's distressful cry!
I heard a child's distressful scream The boatman cried again.
But the saints letting it be known in the distressful land that they had struck oil, their friends and relatives swarmed across the Channel in such crowds that the King was in danger of being eaten out of house and home.
The cheapest way of coming across in those days from the "distressful country," was to sit on a millstone and wait for a fair breeze.
At the mere thought of Mrs Higden in this inconceivable affliction, Mr Sloppy's countenance became pale, and manifested the most distressful emotions.
With distressful spirit, accepting humiliation as well-deserved chastisement for his chimerical fancies, Pierre retired, stepping backwards according to the customary ceremonial.
The whole wretched, abandoned district was in a flutter, a distressful wail ascended from those lifeless streets with high resounding names.
Only, behind all that lust of power, that continuous onslaught of ambition, what a distressful prey was stirring--the whole people with all its poverty and its sufferings!
She did not answer the loving words which her father addressed to her, but simply glanced at him with her large distressful eyes, and then again turned them upon the marble statue which looked so white amid the radiance of the tapers.
But how distressful were the eyes with which he watched Pierre climb the stairs, how he seemed to supplicate him with his whole quivering form.
And at last he caught himself repeating the prayers of the crowd, in a distressful voice that came from the depths of his being "Lord, heal our sick!
He pursed his lips and held tight to the lapels of his coat, his piercing yet distressful eyes blinking rapidly behind their glasses with a kind of nervous malice.
There was something odd about him--something distressful and indignant.
So many circumstances unite in rendering the present state of it distressful to us, that you will not think any deliberations misemployed which may lead to its relief and protection.
Here he stated the distressful and critical situation of America at the period of its establishment; he remarked, that it was at the time of the declension of the Continental money.
The temptation, however, was overpowering, and again Shakespeare yields to it: "And often did beguile her of her tears When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffered.
When his car-wheels will sink in the earth, availing thyself of that opportunity, thou shouldst slay him in that distressful situation.
In one distressful winter over L300 was thus sent to him and his wife.
What is a Board of Guardians to do, with its awful responsibilities and its awful obligations, during such distressful winters as Poplar sometimes witnesses?
The twelve years old drummer boy was not singing now, but sobbing, with a manly effort all the while to stifle the distressful sounds that would break out.
For a little while, there was no sound in the room but the drip of water, from a stump or two, and John's distressful gasps, as he slowly breathed his life away.
It was his part, by one striking act of martyrdom, to direct all men's eyes on that distressful country.
In this distressful situation, they had no other resource than to repair to the uncultivated parts round the Upas, and requested permission of the Emperor to settle there.
