886 examples of plight in sentences

Fire destroyed their provisions, and they would have starved had not two dwarfs, who dwelt as hermits on the top of some rocks, received divine intimation of their plight and revealed it to their emir, Fakreddin.

"What, ma'am?" "Coming to see a lady in that plight.

" "This plight?

In this plight I waited to introduce myself to my formidable aunt.

He was declared to be equal to a god and obtained eternal honors, whereas those who slew him perished, the evil men, in evil plight.

The emperor lamented bitterly the plight in which the disease had placed him and bitterly his powerlessness, in that he was not able to make away with himself, though he might still, even when so near death, destroy anybody else.

"No, no, Marten," replied Mr. Mortimer laughing"No, no, my boyyou have got more on your hands now than will suffice you: so off with you home, and take care that when we return we do not find the doves flown, Nero lost, or Reuben with black eye or bruised leg, and yourself in some unlucky plight, my boy.

And for a lord to see me in such a plight!

Messer Biagio, finding himself in this plight, and being no doubt laughed at by his friends, complained to the Pope, who answered that he could do nothing to help him.

He became indignant, and in pantomime vividly described the suffering of guests at the Tiare with the ice exhausted, and Lovaina's plight if she could sell no more drinks.

The mill-owners, seeing what desperate plight these women were in, agreed to deduct from the weekly rent a sum equivalent to twelve cents per boarder, and they also authorized the housekeepers to charge each girl twelve cents more.

DISTAFFI'NA, the troth-plight wife of General Bombastês; but Artaxaminous, king of Utopia, promised her "half a crown" if she would forsake the general for himselfa temptation too great to be resisted.

Lucy Ashton, being attacked by a wild bull, is saved by Edgar, who shoots it; and the two falling in love with each other, plight their mutual troth, and exchange love-tokens at the "Mermaid's Fountain."

Our plight could therefore be well imagined.

But two negatives in the same clause, if they have any bearing on each other, destroy the negation, and render the meaning weakly affirmative; as, "Nor did they not perceive their evil plight.

But for the generosity of our relatives we would have been in a pretty plight.

The Wilbur twin, forgetting his own plight, glanced warm encouragement to her.

To-day our plight is pitiable enoughthe duke, the jockey-boy, and the artist are exactly alike; they are dressed by the same tailor, they dine at the same clubs, they swear the same oaths, they speak equally bad English, they love the same women.

Thus it will be seen that I was not in a bad plight; but although I appreciated this, I grew more and more troubled and uneasy.

The real plight of these folk came when a horse died and they had to buy another.

Rafael was anxious to get out of his plight.

They were in a worse plight than shipwrecked people, for no ship of good hope could take them home again.

Upon this long train were a thousand other men and women in the same plight and with the same grief.

The plight of a president.

We scrambled up the high bank, in a miserable plight, to join in the general lamentation over the probable consequences of the accident.

886 examples of  plight  in sentences