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Sentences ending with distress

He flushed joyfully yet with painful distress. [2]
I could never withstand distress. [5]
Agne was gazing wide-eyed into the darkness; Dada had long been asleep, but she breathed painfully and her rosy lips were puckered now and then as if she were in some distress. [10]
Could not-- He was suddenly startled by a smothered cry, then a call of distress. [11]
The unfortunate woman was in great distress. [10]
For one or two nights, I scarcely knew how to get on till morning; and when morning came, I was still haunted with a sense of sickening distress. [14]
This continued, and Tom began to evince a growing distress. [5]
Teddy Flynn used to say to me, says he: 'Niver born to know distress! [11]
When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws, and made a noise such as some of the other animals make when they are in distress. [5]
What I wish to know is, whether my taking the case would cause you any personal inconvenience or distress? [9]

Short sentences using distress

Does that distress you? [5]
Jethro was in real distress. [9]
Besides, he was in distress. [5]
M. Fille was in distress. [11]

Sentences containing distress two or more times

I left them talking to Roscoe, he wearing such a look on his face as I like to remember now, free from distress of mind--so much more painful than distress of body. [11]

More example sentences with the word distress in them

Need I remind you of the importance of punctuality in your engagements, and of the worry and distress to patients and their friends which the want of it occasions? [3]
Wrangle had never yet shown any indication of distress while Venters rode him. [13]
Archibius's thoughts lingered with his beloved Queen, and his vivid power of imagination conjured before his mind everything which could distress her. [10]
That wondrous hymn which Judge Whipple loved, which for years has been the comfort of those in distress, floated softly with the night air out of the open window. [9]
The common distress, which afflicted them and so many starving people, oppressed his soul with a thousand-fold greater power. [10]
But many things were going forward which gave me matter for thought, and increased the distress I already felt. [10]
She knew full well the meaning of the deep lines that marked his lips and brow; for Porphyrius had never made any secret of his distress and vexation whenever he found himself compelled to confess a creed in which he did not honestly believe. [10]
In what distress we all seemed to be then, yet I would give much to bring back that time... but there's no bringing it back. [2]
The old lady was sitting wearily in an arm-chair; she could still walk, but amid her anxiety and distress a strange twitching had affected her hands. [10]
You see, I was in such distress when I came to realize that you were gone far away and no one stood between her and danger but me--and I could die at any moment, and then--oh then what would become of her! [5]
In dress he was always neat; he was quick to lend a hand to a being in distress, brute or human; was overflowing with good humor, and was the idol of all his acquaintances. [4]
With birds the voice serves to express various emotions, such as distress, fear, anger, triumph, or mere happiness. [1]
Even then sleep visited us not, and that which had been doing below was as great a distress to me as my fears for my lover. [10]
Tortured by rage, vexation, and sincere distress, she said in a complaining voice, while the tears started to her eyes: "But what is the meaning of all this? [10]
In fact, he used, unasked and secretly, a considerable portion of his large revenues to relieve the distress of the poor and suffering. [10]
It so worked upon her that she put her hands to her ears, hurried to her room, and threw herself upon the bed in a distress she could set down to no real cause. [11]
They had no troublesome appearances to keep up, no rivalries which they cared to distress themselves about, no jealousies to fret over. [5]
But he began to generalize then, and show distress. [5]
She didn't want to distress me, you know. [5]
I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress, perfect relief is not possible, except with time. [7]
Was it right to abandon the young wife, who had held out a saving hand in her distress? [10]
For the first time he saw her weep, and her winning manner seemed to him equally touching, whether she yielded to anxious distress of mind or to joyous hopes. [10]
She would have thought it more natural if she had found Melissa overcome by the horrors she had witnessed, half distraught or paralyzed by distress and rage. [10]
He took Judge Thornton aside and whispered the important question to him,--in his distress of mind, mistaking pockets and taking out his bandanna instead of his white handkerchief to wipe his forehead. [6]
Perhaps the truest thing was said by the old broker in the board whose reputation for piety was only equaled by his reputation of always having money to loan at exorbitant rates in a time of distress. [4]
As they stood there, silently listening, the sound of two horses galloping swiftly away fell on their ear, and after a longer interval a prolonged whistle from the Nile and a cry of distress. [10]
For forty-eight hours the widow hunted for him everywhere in great distress. [5]
Looking back to the time when I left America, I can recall the expectation of finding a Britain beginning to show signs of distress. [9]
Seward suggested that the proclamation, if then brought out, amidst disaster and distress, would sound like the last shriek of a perishing cause. [7]
We can tolerate the Oracle very easily, but we have a poet and a good-natured enterprising idiot on board, and they do distress the company. [5]
It would distress the garrison to suspect that you think they can't take care of her. [5]
He remembered only the dull gray weather now rainy and now snowy, internal physical distress, and pains in his feet and side. [2]
He said that the distress was not exaggerated in the least. [5]
She sank on the bed beside the wall with a cry of distress. [11]
Now it fell that on this day, the 20th December, being my godfather's name-day, I found her not with the rest, but in her own chamber in violent distress. [10]
Tabby's health had suddenly and utterly given way, and she died in this time of distress and anxiety respecting the last daughter of the house she had served so long. [14]
But a man stopped them and brought them back and told them it was a shame to leave me in such distress. [5]
He did not stop to reason then that action might distress her. [9]
It would be some relief to unseal his tongue for a little while; to divide his burden of distress with another sufferer. [5]
His distress was so moving that even Rippingdale was constrained to say: "He did it for your sake. [11]
It sank but slowly into her consciousness, and slowly the blood left her face, slowly but surely: left it at length as white as the lace curtain of the window which she clutched in her distress. [9]
The high-priest of Serapis had looked on in much distress of mind. [10]
One has a sense of uneasiness, of distress, without knowing why. [5]
Among them was seen many a grave, deeply-troubled face; for these men, who filled its ranks by their own choice, all loved William of Orange: his sorrow hurt them--and their country's distress pierced their hearts. [10]
There was the same thick air, difficult to breathe; the same blighted ground, the same hopeless prospect, the same misery and distress. [12]
I offered to ring, but she said, "No, don't do that; it would only distress her to be confronted with her lapse, and would be a rebuke; she doesn't deserve that--she is not to blame for the tricks her memory serves her. [5]
Soap would soon remove her anxious distress about foreign distempers. [5]
We had no provisions whatever--in this lay our chief distress. [5]
I should highly prize the advantages to be gained in an extended range of observation; but I tremble at the thought of the price I must necessarily pay in mental distress and physical wear and tear. [14]
He told us privately that there was no purgatory, but he had contributed in order that Nikolaus's parents and their friends might be saved from worry and distress. [5]
Amid all the pressure and distress that the burdens of office brought upon him, his unfailing sense of humor saved him; probably it made it possible for him to live under the burden. [7]
Although she had possessed more than was needed to gratify her own wants, she could never be moved by the most touching appeals of the poorest to relieve their distress. [10]
You cannot take pleasure in adding to my distress. [5]
Joan's distress was pitiful to see. [5]
When he had picked her up in Spain she was already a cripple and in sore distress. [10]
The village was paralyzed with fright, distress, despair. [5]
He was often overwhelmed, too, by the remembrance of the terrible end of the friend in whom he saw the only person who might have given him consolation in this distress, and the painful thought of his poverty. [10]
An outsider is out of place here... No, don't distress yourself... [2]
The year 1848 opened with sad domestic distress. [14]
She was as one who had listened and had caught the note of song for which she waited; but her face clouded, and the rapt look gave way to an immediate distress. [11]
During this period of the sorest distress, Van der Werff was passing down the "broad street. [10]
In the presence of people, Tracy showed a tranquil outside, but his heart was being eaten out of him by distress and despair. [5]
But the worst of it was," added Victoria, with some distress, "he won't accept any more fruit. [9]
The eternal sameness of it all will so distress us we shall awake one morning, find them at our bedsides, give a kick, and die from sheer ennui. [11]
The physical part of him craved without ceasing for something to allay his distress. [11]
After twelve months of distress (for McGee saw a fancied assassin in every man that approached him), he made the last of many efforts to get out of the country unwatched. [5]
I have heard of cases in which certain sights and sounds, which have no particular significance for most persons, produced feelings of distress or aversion that made, them unbearable to the subjects of the constitutional dislike. [6]
Halby stood still, numb with distress, for there was Lydia. [11]
His conscience could not endure any more of Amy's grateful happiness, and his jealousy could bear no more of the other distress. [5]
Why should she neglect the remedy which had so greatly mitigated her husband's distress? [10]
In your sharp need and distress the Brown family will succor you--such of them as Pike the assassin left alive. [5]
With her healthy nature, Melissa soon regained consciousness, and during the first few moments her distress over the spoiled garment threw every other thought into the background. [10]
The pain in my eyes grew less, and, though they kept filling with moisture from the violence of the light, I soon could see without distress. [11]
We were so moved at his distress that we did not think to call him back and endeavor to comfort him until he was gone, and it was too late. [5]
Here were seen more pictures of distress. [5]
Emphasis is putting more distress on one word than another. [5]
Eight or nine months after the distress of the torrents had departed from me, the roar and thunder of the streets of Paris brought it all back again. [5]
Tom's distress of mind wore off gradually and the toothache grew irksome and was discarded. [5]
Washington's distress of mind was chiefly on Laura's account. [5]
When one hundred millions, or more, of the circulation we now have shall be withdrawn, who can contemplate without terror the distress, ruin, bankruptcy, and beggary that must follow? [7]
How real this merry sport made the distress of persecuted innocence, the terrors and charm of the forest, the joys and splendours of the fairy realm! [10]
Is it no matter for commotion and distress that the Head of the State is gone; that I am vanished away and lost? [5]
Many a Southern man cried out in his heart that his people had been robbed of their best friend in their humiliation and distress, when Abraham Lincoln was struck down. [7]
Every moment we lose in idle discussion increases our distress. [5]
Presently, as they looked into each other's eyes, and Faith dimly apprehended something of Hylda's distress and its cause, Hylda leaned over and spasmodically pressed her hand. [11]
But what a life he must have been leading for so many years, with this perpetual source of distress which he could not name! [6]
P.S.--These replies having left us in some perplexity, and also in some fear lest they distress Mr. [5]
This was the last resting-place of a good man, a warm-hearted, unselfish man; a man whose whole life was given to succoring the poor, encouraging the faint-hearted, visiting the sick; in relieving distress, whenever and wherever he found it. [5]
The brave men knew that the surrender of the city might put an end to their distress, but wished to hold out for the sake of liberty and their religion, and endured their suffering as an inevitable misfortune. [10]
She hurried over, kissed the old man, passed from the room, and met her old servant Hulm in the passage, who stretched out her hand in distress. [11]
Hardly had the king opened the General Assembly in April, 1848, and, for the relief of distress among the poorer classes in the capital, repealed the town dues on corn, when the first actual evidences of discontent broke out. [10]
The distress in Joan's face was like that which one sees in the face of a dumb animal that has received a mortal hurt. [5]
Don't distress her, Joan; do as I say. [5]
He had hid it from every one, until, at last, distress and pain had overcome him. [11]
Quite true; for it burst the reservoir and the water-pipes; and for a time after the flood had disappeared there was much distress from want of water. [5]
But my distress is that our friends in East Tennessee are being hanged and driven to despair, and even now, I fear, are thinking of taking rebel arms for the sake of personal protection. [7]
At last the irregular beat of horses' hoofs, and the sound of bells struck my ear, and a few minutes later I distinctly heard cries of distress. [10]
Your regard,--your friendly interest, tell me that I shall always have these, but do not distress me with offering more than these. [6]
Her one dread in this world was her "responsibility "; and the thought that she might have to account for ten talents hereafter, instead of one, had often of late been a positive distress to her. [6]
In this as in the other cases, the disease resisted all remedies, and she died in great distress on the 22d of the same month. [3]

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