"WHEN DISTRESS IS GREATEST, HELP IS NEAREST.

When Distress is Greatest, Help is Nearest.

Distress is the sure parent of discontent, unless the people have a very complete confidence in their government.

Distress is the remedy usually applied, the landlord being authorized to enter the premises, seize the goods and chattels of his tenant, and sell them, on the fifth day, to reimburse himself for all arrears of rent and the charges of the distress.

His face is full of distress; indeed, distress is too weak a wordof acute and utter pain.

It became necessary to surrender; the council of the Company called upon the general to capitulate; Lally claimed the honors of war, but Coote would have the town at discretion; the distress was extreme as well as the irritation.

The distresses of the kingdom were to them the ladder of ambition.

They were determined to endure every hardship, and their greatest distress was the want of corn.

Our distress Is so extreme, so boundless, that we care No longer for thine anger. GESSLER.

"Earnestly desiring that you may be induced to discharge your duty as Christians, and whatever may be the result, acquit yourselves of your share of the national guilt, I conclude with the words of a friend: 'For my own part, I think the present distress of the nation may be the retributive chastisement of our recent atrocious war in China and the East.

In politics it was a supporter of Lord Liverpool's Government; but public distress, the currency, trade and commerce were subjects of independent comment.

It is reasonable to believe the contrary, because good fortune is seldom without the evidence of flattery, or envy, whereas distress and obscurity, are almost inseparable companions.

My distress about this unhappy war will be keener, when I feel that my dear friend may be its victim.

Athgabail ([)a]h-gowil) = "distress", was the universal legal mode of obtaining anything due, or justice or redress in any matter, whether civil or criminal, contract or tort.

Another distress was the constant calls of natives with the most undesirable things for me to buy; two or three calls daily for a long time.

The private distresses occasioned by the dissolution of the convents are not the only consequences to be regrettedfor a time, at least, the loss must certainly be a public one.

The distress of France, the injustice they have been induced to commit on public credit, immense bankruptcies, and great bankers hanging and drowning themselves, are comfortable objects in our prospect; for one tiger is charmed if another tiger loses his tail.

You ever trusted, my Emmeline, though far greater distress was your lot than mine.