Only Kaviak seemed likely to come unscathed through the ordeal of the winter's captivity; only he could take the best place at the fire, the best morsel at dinner, and not stir angry passions; only he dared rouse Mac when the Nova Scotian fell into one of his bear-with-a-sore-head moods.

It was generally known that the pretensions of the candidates for the episcopate would be decided by public competition, and it was rumoured that this would partake of the nature of an ordeal by fire and water.

I had to spend a certain part of it with Roland, which was a terrible ordeal for me, for what could I say to the boy?

If it is true that this story is largely autobiographical, the separation must have been a trying ordeal in Kipling's childhood.

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

He underwent a terrifying ordeal at the hands of his demented captor, although he was not actually injured.

Diggory glanced up, and received a look from the two prefects that amply repaid him for the trying ordeal through which he had just passed.

But Bobby lingered, oddly fascinated, supporting the ordeal to its final moment.

Cave always began by saying he could never go through this ordeal without the help and sympathy of his dear wifehis support and joyat whose bidding and in pursuit of whose dreams he had come forward to win a seat in their uncorruptible borough, and to represent themthe most coveted honour of his lifein the House of Commons.

" She added the "nearly happy" as the thought came to her that even with the broken statue paid for and off her mind she had still another ordeal before her.

Does no crime attach to those, who accuse others falsely, or who multiply and divide crimes for the sake of the profit of the punishment, and who for the same reason continue the use of barbarous and absurd ordeals as a test of innocence or guilt?

'I hope my poor Ulysses will not come home thoroughly broken in health, but that our Sutherlandshire breezes will set him up again.' 'Rather an ordeal after India, I should think,' said Lord Denyer.

Ordeal on St. Valentine's Day.

She had passed through an ordeal under which a strong man might have broken, and the picture he had of her struggle in there alone turned him from the tent filled with a determination to make her believe that the events of the morning, both with him and MacDonald, were easily forgotten.

Still it was a less dreadful ordeal than previously, though she had to tell the worst, for she knew her ground better, and then there was throughout wonderful support in Charles's eyes, which told her, whenever she glanced towards him, that she was doing right and as he wished.

You went through that trying ordeal like a soldier.

But with splendid courage and gallant spirit, he went in for his first ordeal against one of the finest warriors in the world.