81 Verbs to Use for the Word discomforts

The weather again became bad on December 14 and the troops suffered great discomfort from heavy rains and violent, cold winds, so that only light operations were undertaken.

They help to shade the eyes from excessive light, and to protect the eyelids from perspiration, which would otherwise cause serious discomfort. 335.

Wet through, cold, with a face rendered painful to the touch by driven rain, I reached my tent with a feeling of thankfulness for myself and deep sympathy for the tens of thousands of brave boys enduring intense discomfort and fatigue, coupled with the fear of short rations for the next day or two.

The girls laughed and forgot their discomfort.

They feel this so strongly that they experience a dull discomfort in any relationship that is not tinctured with passion.

In all the eight years in which he had fathered Ned's sons, both before and since his brother's death, never once to his knowledge had either one lied to him, even to save himself discomfort, censure or punishment.

I was feeling wonderfully rested, and found no discomfort in Shalah's long strides.

You trust me, and, I believe," (she added, colouring), "you love me, twelvefold more than I deserve; yet you think me unwilling or unworthy to take ever so small an interest in your work, to bear a few hours' discomfort for it and for you.

She no longer felt discomfort.

I am sent to request you will make such preparations as may befit your convenience during a few months' residence in a purer atmosphere, and that this may be done speedily, as your journey, always to prevent discomfort to yourself, will commence before the rising of the sun.

Our Infantry and many of our Batteries would then be out in the open, in view from the Austrian O.P.'s, unable to light a fire by day, and only able to send up supplies by night; and our general situation would be so much the worse with heavy snow increasing our discomfort and the visibility of any work we might undertake and of our every movement.

When he could find leisure he was fond of travelling, especially in Italy; but he hated and avoided the discomforts of travel.

But men will brave all such discomforts and the attendant perils with a hearty delight, if you will train up the right spirit in them.

An idea may operate for even more transient purposes; it may make one oblivious to present discomfort to a remarkable degree.

But many warriors murmured against this, for the undertaking was a difficult one, and they knew the discomforts of a long march.

He is for the open air, seemingly incapable of realising any discomfort from it, and yet his hours within doors spent with equal profit.

The extreme cold lasting so long brought many discomforts.

For a desert-journey, we had little to complain of as regards actual discomfort.

And good Isabella McDonald turned angrily away, and drummed on the window-pane with her knitting-needles to relieve her nervous discomfort at this slight passage at arms with her best-beloved daughter.

Whatever it was, they were apprehensive; for throughout the night we heard them barricading the town with great hurry and clatter; and it gave us sad discomfort to think that in the morning there would be these walls to climb before our men could get at them.

He stood in the centre of a little crowd of village boys; his golden head was bare in the blazing sun, but the crop of curls seemed thick enough to protect him from its rays, and he was far too engrossed in his occupation to heed any discomfort from the heat.

The wintry dawn is beginning to creep through the windows, and shows the bare discomfort of the old room.

Is the plea of a wish to spare mental discomfort to others an admissible and valid plea?

Breaking the habit of excessive use of drugs, tobacco, tea and coffee, or alcohol, will occasion much discomfort, hardship, and even functional disturbance, but these ills are only temporary, and the organism soon returns to its original normal condition.

A long weary journey that was, in a third-class carriage in the cold month of February, but the labor had in it a joy that outpaid all physical discomfort, and the feeling that I had found my work in the world gave a new happiness to my life.

81 Verbs to Use for the Word  discomforts