I have gone through the most fiery ordeals that have fallen to the lot of man.

The aspirant was required to go through the most severe ordeal, and show the greatest moral resignation."

That would be a painful ordeal for both of us.

The federal principle in America has passed through this fearful ordeal and come out stronger than ever; and we trust it will not again be put to so severe a test.

He had distinguished himself in the defence of Calcutta in 1756, when he was wounded, and, being taken on board the ships, escaped the dreadful ordeal of the Black Hole.]

The frightful ordeal unsettled his reason, and he spent eighteen months in an insane asylum.

Returning to my room, where Mr. Blank was in waiting, I supported his drooping courage and again assured him that he should be spared the dreaded ordeal.

To the parties in action, it is not difficult to suppose these combinations might prove something short of perfectly agreeable, more especially, as on such occasions as these, some of the fair daughters of our courtly belles were undergoing the awful ordeal of a first ball-room appearance, on whom these contingencies would inflict ten-fold embarrassment.

Does no crime attach to those, who accuse others falsely, or who multiply and divide crimes for the sake of the profit of the punishment, and who for the same reason continue the use of barbarous and absurd ordeals as a test of innocence or guilt?

But the desire to see her, to hear from herif only to learn how she had endured the bitter ordeal of the day beforesoon became unbearable.

This cruel ordeal lasted five months without the least progress to lessen its bitterness.

A ghastly ordeal it was.

It grew in time into a perpetual grimace, so that the expression of an old range rider is that of a man steeling himself to pass through some grim ordeal.

Now, he lay on the banks of James River, thirty miles away from the capital, and his army was worn out by the tremendous ordeal it had passed through, and completely discouraged.

There is no need in subjecting her to that distasteful ordeal.

It was still a decided ordeal for her to go in; to feel the water flowing over her feet and to hear it splash against the piles of the dock and gurgle over the stones along the shore; but she resolutely steeled her nerves against the sound and the feel of the water, forcing back the terror that gripped her like an icy hand, and courageously tried to follow the director's instructions to put her face down under the surface.

This unjust ordeal had a painful effect on her joyous spirit.

It is touching to think of him whom we all know as the most honoured name among living veterans of letters, passing through the vexed ordeal of the young recruit, and battling for his own against the waywardness of critics and the blindness of publishers.

Yet he found himself en-route to her home, facing the ordeal of an interview with heran ordeal for her as well as for himand one through which he feared she could not safely come.

The longer a girl remains in this retirement the greater honour is it to the parents; but she is disgraced for life if it is known that she has seen fire or the sun during this initiatory ordeal."

When the new gasometer, which looks like the skeleton of some vast colosseum, is finished here, an additional balminess will be given to the immediate atmosphere, which may be very good for children in the hooping- cough, but anything except pleasant for those who have passed through that lively ordeal.

I am working hard to get through the academic requirements, sir, and I don't intend to pass the mental ordeals here and then find that I can't keep on as a midshipman just because I have too many demerits against me.

Come to me quietly, and let us get this messy ordeal over with quickly.

The long tables which had so often, to use a hackneyed phrase, "groaned" beneath the weight of civic farethe cosy high-backed stuffed chairs which had held many a portly citizennay, the very soup-kettles and venison dishesall were to be submitted to the noisy ordeal of the auction hammer.

It was an ordealeven a greater ordeal than they had thought it would be.