Use distressed in a sentence
Sentences starting with distressed
- Distressed as Madelinette was, she was composed and ready. [11]
Sentences ending with distressed
- The Tractors must trust for their patronage to the enlightened and philanthropic out of the profession, or to medical men retired from practice, and who know of no other interest than the luxury of relieving the distressed. [6]
- The darkness was steadily growing, the people becoming more and more distressed. [5]
- But he didn't re-enter; he staggered off stunned, terrified, distressed. [5]
- But I am not distressed. [5]
- Yours Sincerely S. L. C. P. S. Mrs. Clemens has come in since, and read your letter and is deeply distressed. [5]
- She felt prompted indeed to tell her lover everything, but it seemed so difficult to make him understand exactly how everything had happened, and Diodoros must not be distressed. [10]
- But if indeed Honora telephoned--as she did once or twice in her innocence--Lily was quite as distressed. [9]
- He--" "Oh, don't distress me any more'n I'm already distressed. [5]
More example sentences with the word distressed in them
- I shall watch your distressed career to its close with deep scrutiny. [11]
- That distressed me--but you were only watching Helios rise. [10]
- A messenger carried word to Szczepanik in the pavilion, and one could see the distressed amazement in his face as he listened to the tale. [5]
- His air was what distressed me most of all, being that of a man who spends his days seeking favours and getting none. [9]
- And too often we have been glad when it was time to go home and be distressed no more about illustrious localities. [5]
- My cousin Laura was of course deeply distressed to feel that her thoughtlessness had been the cause of so grave an accident. [6]
- I said it was not important enough; but she was distressed and said I must think of Clara. [5]
- We distressed ourselves very little about the astonishing echo the guide talked so much about. [5]
- And greatly distressed, too; for, of course, the newspaper people would fall foul of it, and be sarcastic, and make fun of it, and have a blithe time over it, and be properly thankful for the chance. [5]
- I now returned to my principal, and was distressed to observe that he had lost a good deal of his spirit. [5]
- She doesn't appear to be much distressed about me--she hasn't looked this way once. [5]
- She liked Margaret to be high-minded, and was really not distressed by any good that was in her. [8]
- On the morrow the whole of the Ambassadors' fellowship rode away, back to the emperor's court; I, for my part made my way to the Pernharts, where I found Ann amazed rather than wroth or distressed by Ursula's base attack. [10]
- But what distressed the princess most of all was her father's irritability, which was always directed against her and had of late amounted to cruelty. [2]
- Leonard Dickinson was the most moved of the three; but they were all distressed, and showed it--even Tallant, whom I had never credited with any feelings; they spoke about the loss to the state. [9]
- The happenings and the impressions of that time are burnt into my memory, and the study of them entertains me as much now as they themselves distressed me then. [5]
- He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then with a distressed face left the room to find Sonya. [2]
- This always distressed the committee, who saw a large profit to their venture in the prestige of his fame. [5]
- Distressed, offended, and surprised by all this, Rostopchin had returned to Moscow. [2]
- But she stopped suddenly, and said in a distressed voice-- "Oh, what aileth thee, my lord? [5]
- Clarence came in, subdued, distressed, and said: "I hasted the message to our liege the king, and straightway he had me to his presence. [5]
- I never felt so stunned, so distressed, so bewildered in my life. [5]
- Its result had so distressed her that she never ventured again to show herself to me. [6]
- But we were so distressed by thirst that we decide to try it, and so Higbie fell to work and I took the steering-oar. [5]
- I could have shed tears, this havoc so distressed me. [5]
- He saw that she was distressed by these things. [9]
- She tried to seem very busy with her prayer-book and her responses, and unconscious that she was out of place, but I said to myself, "She is not succeeding--there is a distressed tremulousness in her voice which betrays increasing embarrassment. [5]
- A night of restless slumber, filled with dreams of feasting--wakings distressed with the gnawings of hunger. [5]
- Although we were perched so strangely upon boxes, trunks and beds, and so strangely attired, too, we were too earnestly distressed and too genuinely miserable to see any fun about it, and there was not the semblance of a smile anywhere visible. [5]
- Several Nineteeners, looking pale and distressed, got up and began to work their way towards the aisles, but a score of shouts went up: "The doors, the doors--close the doors; no Incorruptible shall leave this place! [5]
- As time went on, the people of the region became sorely distressed about the Specter of the Haunted Cave. [5]
- Barine was ignorant of his trip to the city, and to be compelled to leave her alone while a naval battle was in progress directly before her eyes distressed him as much as it could not fail to alarm her. [10]
- I am sorry now that I should--if I have distressed you. [10]
- And she says now that her head feels as ef a nail had been driv' into it,--into the left temple, she says, and that's what makes her look so distressed now. [6]
- I was as much distressed as he was--especially as he seemed so far from having suspected that there was anything improper in his proposition. [5]
- This distressed me more than I can tell, for I could not but feel that it was a mistake. [5]
- Deeply troubled, and more and more distressed as time went on by new disturbing thoughts, she hurriedly paced from side to side of the long, narrow chamber in the gathering darkness. [10]
- Though Ann's hopeful mood distressed me, these same hopes in my world-wise Aunt Jacoba raised my spirit; but again, when I heard my grand-uncle speak of Herdegen as his duteous son, it fell as low as before. [10]
- However, as I meant well, none of these disasters distressed me. [5]
- The sight distressed me; you know how sensitive I am, and with what difficulty I endure and witness suffering. [10]
- Moreover, it distressed me on account of the old expressman, who, I was afraid, might notice it. [5]
- However much you may be distressed about our candidate, you have all cause to be contented and happy with your own. [7]
- I've said so many times when a chairman has distressed me with just such compliments that the next time such a thing occurs I will certainly use a gun on that chairman. [5]
- She had been kind, she had been generous, she had in the past few months given service unstinted; but it was more as her own cure for her own ills than yearning compassion for all those who were distressed "in mind, body, or estate. [11]
- A dreadfully nervous kind of man he was, walked on tiptoe, started at sudden noises, was distressed when he heard a whisper, had a quick, suspicious look, and was always saying, "Hush? [6]
- The worst of it was, it distressed the old lady so; she admired Beaton as much as she respected the colonel, and she admired Beaton, Fulkerson thought, rather more than Miss Leighton did; he asked March if he had noticed them together. [8]
- Again Pierre fell into the naively symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing his utmost to look as small as possible. [2]
- With as much information as he needed, Jowett made his way back to Lebanon, when, at the approach to the bridge, he met Fleda hurrying with bent head and pale, distressed face in his own direction. [11]
- He figured her in his mind as pale and distressed, and always her eyes had the piteous terror of that last look as she went away over the hills. [11]
- In three days I did a hundred and fifty dollars' worth of printing and advertising, and was the most distressed and frightened creature on the Pacific coast. [5]
- Hermas looked after him for a long time greatly distressed, for his strong friend tottered like a drunken man, and often pressed his hand to his head which was no doubt as burning as his lips. [10]
- Everybody turned against him and said the meanest kind of things about him, and it graduly broke his heart--yes, and he was so worried and distressed that often he warn't hardly in his right mind. [5]
- The interview with her mother left her in a very distressed state of mind. [4]
- Harriet Shelley wrote her distressed letter on the 7th of July. [5]
- One day, when he was deeply immersed in his work, his wife came in, much moved and profoundly distressed, and said: "I am sorry to disturb you, John, but I must, for this is a serious matter, and needs to be attended to at once. [5]
- He prayed that he might feel bad, and be distressed about himself. [4]
- The three were greatly distressed by the representations of the member and De la Riviere. [11]
- I shall never forget how distressed, how overwhelmed Mr. Constable and I were when Gertrude got her divorce. [9]
- I care nothing for the rest--I am only distressed and troubled because I am befouled by these things. [5]
- Many a coureur du bois divided his tale of furs with a distressed noble or seigneur, who dare not work in the fields. [11]
- Ah, I am distressed, and I finished her portrait yesterday! [11]
- Poor Seppi looked distressed, and did not finish his remark. [5]
- He was evidently distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. [2]
- I was much distressed to think that she had heard of the affair of the horse, and more so to surmise that the gossip which clung to it must also have reached her. [9]
- Bartja, especially, was distressed at hearing of Nitetis' sad end, and the discovery of Amasis' fraud filled them all with astonishment. [10]
- Papa was acutely distressed at first, but, on the whole, has borne the event well. [14]
- Don't look so distressed and surprised, mother. [10]
- They were sore distressed and sad. [5]
- I am not distressed about the National Improvement Relief Measure. [5]
- He laid his burning right hand on her head and murmured some words of blessing; she, however, scarcely heeded them, for his hand felt like lead and its heat oppressed and distressed her dreadfully. [10]
- When the preacher began, she cast up one distressed and disappointed look, then dropped her head again. [5]
- My wife will be distressed when she leaves us. [11]
- Still, though distressed at the thought of her vehement father in prison, she shed no tears, but told herself that matters could only be mended by rational action on behalf of the victims, and not by lamentations. [10]
- The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they now rose and took their leave. [2]
- And when she asked herself what distressed her, she had to admit that it was her relation to Rostov. [2]
- The bitter father and the distressed lovers write the letters. [5]
- He was much amazed to hear that Bigot had been shot, and distressed that I could not say whether fatally or not. [11]
- Paula went up-stairs again, distressed and vexed with herself. [10]
- He is distressed about Admiral Farragut's using a whole fleet for a pleasure excursion, as he terms it. [5]
- Not long ago a fellow came along with a rolling gait and a distressed face. [5]
- About this time a distressed manager discovered Dean on a curb-stone, explained the dilemma to him, took his book away from him, rushed him into the building the back way, and told him to make for the stage and save his country. [5]
- Above all things (between you and me) never tell Ma any of your troubles; she never slept a wink the night your last letter came, and she looks distressed yet. [5]
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