I hoped you would never suspect the distressing facts.
She knew now that the keen pang she suffered that day could mean nothing less solemn and distressing than the mortifying fact that she was beginning to love her guardian.
What did he do under these distressing circumstances?
Yes, certainly; and a most distressing duty," put in the officer.
Parkins's experience on this occasion was a very distressing one.
It must be very distressing to you, but--you will soon fly again.
McQueen never had the humiliation, so distressing to an old doctor, of being asked by patients to send his assistant instead of coming himself.
It's distressing to have the pack so tight, and the bergs make it impossible to lie comfortably still for any length of time.
Instead of the incessant distressing noise in London, I saw here at a distance, sundry little family parties walking arm in arm along the banks of the Thames.
The union of an emigration with an arrangement is distressing if the whole place is shown to be there.
This is not a disturbing thing, this is not a distressing thing, this is not an important thing.
I fear that this note of poignant sadness and regret will sound again and again in these pages like a melancholy and distressing leit-motiv.
During the days that followed, everything at home was thrown into such confusion, and the sight of all that my father had touched or loved was so distressing to me, that I begged my mother to let me leave Beaucourt for a while.
This dressing forms a carapace for the penis, protecting it from the bedclothes and effectually preventing the annoying and distressing erections.
When they heard this afflicting intelligence, they all began to lament in the most distressing manner.
My heavy affliction is occasioned by intelligence of three distressing events which I have just received.
The eyes of the aged domestic filled with tears, and a look of anxious indecision, which was even more distressing than his tears, crossed his pale face.
This sudden fall was occasioned by other tidings of a still more distressing nature; by a rumour which so affected Mrs. Proudie that it caused, as she said, her blood to creep.
This has been a distressing affair," said Lady Lufton, after her first salutation.
The younger was earning her living, she was not listening then to the story which was distressingof the older sister then almost not earning any living.
When I am asked I say it is distressing not to be right.
Vice conditions in such cities as London and Liverpool are particularly menacing; strong drink is everywhere a distressing problem.
On the morning after a distressing night of suspense following the loss of more than a hundred lives as the result of bombs, I rode from Paris to Bordeaux.
Richard looked at her, amazed at these evidences of distressing emotion.
It's very distressing to me to put it so plainly, but in my opinion it's a disgraceful business.
And, along with this, distressing restlessness took him, compelling him to seek relief in change of posture and of place.
Terribly distressing thing his deformity and all that, both for himself and Lady Calmady.
To every one else I am an embarrassment, a more or less distressing curiosity.
The boy she had left, the man who stood awaiting her so calmly were, save in one distressing peculiarity, two widely different persons.
Troublesome, distressing things had happened, and he perceived I needed change.
Richard smiled at the phantasies of his own mood; yet he forgot to be shy, forgot the distressing self-consciousness which made him shrink from the observation of strangers--specially those of the other sex.
At the expiration of twenty-one days, under many distressing circumstances, we reached Bangalore.
She did not believe it would be so distressing to talk to Cousin Robert if only they could be together somewhere among strangers.
Mr. Jimson only answered by a distressing cough; and the next moment the girl was on her knees, and their faces had almost knocked together under the table.
To calculate cubes occurred to him as an ingenious and even profitable refuge from distressing thoughts, and he threw his manhood into that dreary exercise.
And with all these distressing experiences to wear him down and sicken his heart, our hero found himself further hampered by treachery in his own camp.
Baden-Powell loves children, and few incidents in the siege of Mafeking could be more distressing to those who know the stout-hearted Defender than these cruel bombardments.
The distinctness and solemnity of the voice made such a distressing impression upon me that I slept no more.
In the second place, those of our percipients whose hallucination is in fact more or less coincident with somedistressing external event, seldom seem to have been predisposed to the hallucination by a knowledge of the event.
Then it is distressing to see his horror of Liberalism, of speculation, of development, of all the things that constitute the primal essence of the very religion that he blindly followed.
It is rather pathetic than distressing to see Newman again and again deluded by the antiquity of some petty human logician into believing his utterance to be the very voice of God.
In my life I never saw so distressing a spectacle.
