Some women are rendered unstable by the process, others are completely transformed, and still others adapt themselves, with little or no discomfort, to the new situation.

So great was the fear in my mind because of what we were about to attempt, that bodily discomforts seemed as nothing.

I had quite a talk with Sibbern, the Swedish minister, who was very friendly and sympathetic, not only at our leaving the Foreign Office, but at the extreme discomfort of moving in such frightfully cold weather.

He put back the knob, went to bed, and passed half the night in extreme mental discomfort and the other half in snatching brief intervals of sleep.

But she is not so well used to domestic discomfort as I am; so she insisted on going.

Wet through, cold, with a face rendered painful to the touch by driven rain, I reached my tent with a feeling of thankfulness for myself and deep sympathy for the tens of thousands of brave boys enduring intense discomfort and fatigue, coupled with the fear of short rations for the next day or two.

The worst that could have happened to them was temporary discomfort offset by adventures.

A loud cheer greeted the arrival of the prisoners, and looks of considerable discomfort began to be evinced by the Indians.

Courage told his attentive listener all about Master Busy's surmises and his determination to probe the secrets of the mysterious crime, whichto be quite truthfulthe worthy butler with the hard toes had scented long ere it was committed, seeing that he used to spend long hours in vast discomfort in the forked branches of the old elms which surrounded the pavilion at the boundary of the park.

Coarse or refined, it is the universal protection, whether from the minor discomforts or the more frightful risks of war.

For a desert-journey, we had little to complain of as regards actual discomfort.

While the rogue was yet gloating over the apparent discomfort his words had caused, Joe suddenly threw himself upon the vagabond, and while he bore him to the pavement and while his hands throttled the viper's throat, he shrieked into the beggar's ears.

May every citizen of your glorious country for ever remember that a partial discomfort of a corner in a large, sure, and comfortable house, may be well amended without breaking the foundation; and that amongst all possible means of getting rid of that partial discomfort, the worst would be to burn down the house with his own hands.

She endured her father's hand under her chin with evident discomfort, and the Vicar's face was somewhat severe when he finally released her.

With that oxlike patience of the North-European peasant breed, which seems accentuated in these Germans in time of war, they quietly endured what was acute discomfort for any sound man to have to endure.

The sun by this time was straight overhead, but my umbrella saved me from absolute discomfort, while birds furnished here and there an agreeable diversion.

We made the journey on mules, with extraordinary discomfort.

Jokes used to stick out of all the horrible discomfort, something like the points of a harrow would stick into you if you slept on it.

As for soda-water and allied beverages, he gets his supply from the cheapest manufacturers; while his ice-cream contains probably more water than milk and is flavoured, not with vanilla, pine-apple or orange, but with some article which he declares is a complete antidote against internal discomfort.

The wintry dawn is beginning to creep through the windows, and shows the bare discomfort of the old room.

The phrase is typical of the mentality of the Poilu, who accepts anything and everything that may happen, whether it be merely slight physical discomfort, or intense suffering, as part of the willing sacrifice which he made on the day that, leaving his homestead and his daily occupation, he took up arms "offering his body as a shield to defend the heart of France.

The man, having a lame horse, had come very slowly, fidgeting Mr. Grey into additional temporary discomfort.

But this particular point of psychology does not arise at all in the modern cases of mere public discomfort or inconvenience.

And whenever they ate a meal, flies settled on the food and drink causing universal discomfort.

He sat in amazed discomfort during the operation, and emerging with his friends remarked that he felt half a stone lighter.