5890 examples of distress in sentences

Here in your country" Even in her distress she caught his phrase "here in your country" and turned ghastly white.

In this manner did I part from a man who had not scrupled to seize me in distress, as he would a waif on a beach.

I was influenced to take this course, from an expectation that either party, after a conflict with an equal, would be less disposed to molest a neutral, and that I might possibly obtain assistance from the conquerorfew cruisers being found at that day, without having foreigners on board, that they would be willing to give to a vessel in distress.

This same difference existed between the two other vessels, though, on the whole, le Cerf got out of her distress sooner and more skilfully than her consort.

"Come, come, Mr. Claridge," Hewitt said more placably, for he had gained his point; "don't distress yourself, and don't attempt to deceive meyou can't, I assure you.

The forty-five years of his reign were filled in home affairs with intrigues between the cliques at court, with growing distress in the country, and with revolts on a larger and larger scale.

An important factor was the general distress in China.

No experience of their individual lives had ever presented such a daily ordeal of physical distress; none had ever been so devastating to hope and spirit.

If mental distress and physical discomfort can constitute vengeance Ben was already avenged.

And ye whose minds distress can move, Bewail a Sparrow's fate; The Sparrow, favourite of my fair, Fond object of her tend'rest care, Her loss indeed how great.

And we see him using his power still to comfort persons who are in distress.

One day, Jesus went into the house of the apostle Peter, and found the family in great distress, because the mother of Peter's wife was very ill and in danger of dying.

He broke into a run, covering the ground with the ease of the practised athlete, elbows at sides and head up, going at an even pace which he knew he could maintain to the finish without distress.

She had never before looked upon such an abandonment of distress as she now beheld, and since Mrs. Fielding was obviously beyond all reasoning or consolation she was powerless to cope with it.

Vera shrank closer to Juliet, but she began to make some feeble efforts to subdue her wild distress.

He clung to him in voiceless distress.

Today for the first time she was able to turn her head and smile and even to murmur a few sentences without distress.

"The Athenians, in their present distress, scarce knew where to turn.

"I cannot pity any one who is under no distress of body nor of mind.

"James relieves neither the boy's nor the girl's distress.

" A copy of this enterprising sheet, addressed in an unknown hand, arrived at the Whipple New Place, to further distress the bereft family.

A voice scarce raised above the tone of a whisper, either in tenderness, resignation, innocent distress, or jealousy suppress'd, often have as much concern with the heart as the most clamorous passions; and when on any of these occasions such affecting speeches are plainly heard, or lost, how wide is the difference from the great or little satisfaction received from them?

Now in this distress, what more natural remedy could be found than to incite and encourage (tho' with some hazard) the industry of the surviving actors?

I hope you are not going to distress your sister with such remarks.

It seemed to him that God was as unresponsive to his distress as the lake.

5890 examples of  distress  in sentences