"Though I know nothing of what he says, yet I can see that he flies a distress signal.

there goes the distress-gun.

We should say guineas, but your evident distress hath moved us to gentleness and mercy.

She had been greatly distressed by the unhappiness of her friend, and in that distress compunction had played its part.

Hence its great importance, the vast amount of space devoted to it in the laws, and the fact that the law of distress deals incidentally with every other branch of law and reveals best the customs, habits, and character of the people.

It doesn't make a man a murderer because he's hungry, does it?" The plea seemed reasonable and the prisoner's distress genuine, but, somehow, Coquenil was skeptical; he himself had eaten nothing since midday, he had been too busy and absorbed, and he was none the worse for it; besides, he remembered what a hearty luncheon the wood carver had eaten and he could not quite believe in this sudden exhaustion.

Girty instantly told Kenton it was the distress-halloo, and that they must all go instantly to the council-house.

The shock of grief had evidently overmastered his facultiessomething, too, besides affliction, seemed to worry and distress himsomething of which he wished to unbosom himself, but that yet he could not make up his mind to reveal.

The distress incident to the derangements of some years past has visited large numbers of our fellow-citizens with hopeless insolvency, whose energies, both mental and physical, by reason of the load of debt pressing upon them, are lost to the country.

It would have seemed as though no other grief could be the portion of Ellen, but another sorrow was impending over her, which, while it lasted, was a source of distress inferior only to Herbert's death.

And since then there has been nothing I could do for you but to pray that your faith may bear this test and that you may deeply realise that God is the refuge of His saints, When storms of sharp distress invade.

Though thou be in prison cast, Or any distress men do thee bede, offer.

To try to gain men far away Will but your heart's distress prolong.

Such is the general revolution of affairs in every state; danger and distress produce unanimity and bravery, virtues which are seldom unattended with success; but success is the parent of pride, and pride of jealousy and faction; faction makes way for calamity, and happy is that nation whose calamities renew their unanimity.

[Illustration: A DISTRESSED AGRICULTURIST.

" That breath had scarce ceased, and the unhappy mother, the unhappy father, had already sprung forward, kissing those lips that exhaled the final quiver of life, and sobbing and crying their distress aloud.

DISTRESSED MOTHER (The), a tragedy by Ambrose Philips (1712).

Kauravya, it is owing to my absence from the Anartta country at that time that thou hast fallen into such distress begot of dice!

They had distress calls.