841 examples of ordeal in sentences

Things which appall us when we read them become a simple part of our purpose when we live in an atmosphere of peril and put our hope only in ending the ordeal.

The striplings were spared many of his hardships and were still able to endure the ordeal, if the end were sure relief.

When outside, he sighed; the quiet of the night was like a blessing compared with the ordeal of the colonel's devilish coldness.

" I knew that Sergeant Corney would say many things which he himself did not believe, if he thought thereby he might strengthen my courage for the terrible ordeal which was probably before us; therefore his words of cheer had less weight than might otherwise have been the case.

Here, in order to obtain an accurate knowledge of the language, I cut myself off from all European society for about six months, and gained by this ordeal an insight into the habits, ways of thinking, laws, and language of that section of the Bechuanas called Bakwains, which has proved of incalculable advantage in my intercourse with them ever since.

It was Dorn's ordeal that his mentality robbed this hour of novelty and of adventure, that while his natural, physical fear incited panic and nausea and a horrible, convulsive internal retching, his highly organized, exquisitely sensitive mind, more like a woman's in its capacity for emotion, must suffer through imagining the infinite agonies that he might really escape.

At last a stepa knockher father's voice: "Lenorecome!" Her ordeal of waiting was over.

Would she never suffer his ordeal?

She began to relieve the worn-out nurse during the day, and she prepared herself for the first ordeal of actual experience of Dorn's peculiar madness.

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Here will I leave himhereAll-seeing God! Such as he is, and sore perplexed as I am, I will commit him to this final Ordeal!

thy blind Father, on the Ordeal Of the bleak Wasteleft himand so he died!

At length he resolved to ascertain the innocence of Saiáwush by the ordeal of fire; and the fearless youth prepared to undergo the terrible trial to which he was sentenced, telling his father to be under no alarm.

The king himself fell from his throne in horror on seeing him surrounded and enveloped in the flames, from which there seemed no chance of extrication; but the gallant youth soon rose up, like the moon from the bursting element, and went through the ordeal unharmed and untouched by the fire.

Darrin and Dalzell had come out of the ordeal with the highest markings they had yet achieved at the Naval Academy.

A legal examination, not so much on account of the jewels, but because of the necessary assertion of my age, would have been a terrible ordeal.

The Combat finished, the Ordeal begins XII.

They can give us nothing like a positive assurance, that the Negro slaves in our colonies would pass through the ordeal of emancipation without danger to their masters or the community at large.

The Empire has passed through a period of great danger, during which its every interest was threatened, and it has come successfully out of the ordeal, but to those upon whom the responsibility lay of initiating and directing the nation's policy the serious nature of the perils which faced us were frequently such as to justify the grave anxiety which sprang from full knowledge of events and their significance.

He was come on an errand which civilisation has contrived to make an ordeal.

That which he communicated, accordingly, had to pass through the fiery ordeal of the Irishman's brains.

It was a magnificently successful effort of the will to hold back almost overpowering emotion, and to keep both mind and body strong and steady for any ordeal through which he might have yet to pass.

It was a very plucky fight, for the ordeal was a severe one; and when it was over the poor child broke down completely in spite of all her efforts and wept upon Piers' shoulder.

It had been something of an ordeal for him also, and with relief he turned his attention to comforting her.

And such an ordeal as it was!

841 examples of  ordeal  in sentences