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Sentences ending with ordeal

He knew men well, and he knew that youths of various birth take a blow in the face in various ways; now, the Emir's son had demeaned him as one of his rank, and had stood the ordeal! [10]
I found the wedding something of an ordeal. [9]
She had come unscathed through the ordeal. [5]
Mrs. Colfax went too, with the Colonel and her niece, although she declared repeatedly that she could not go through with such an ordeal. [9]
She was resolved to return to Chiltern a better and a wiser and a truer woman, unstained by the ordeal. [9]
She kissed her, swiftly, on the cheek, and fled from the room.... Supper was an ordeal. [9]
Hodder shrank from it as from an ordeal. [9]
And never had I known such an ordeal. [9]
He had two hundred feet more to climb, and the next hundred would be the great ordeal. [11]
There is always a bond of fellowship between those who have been through such an ordeal. [6]

More example sentences with the word ordeal in them

Presently he steadied to the ordeal of suspense, while he kept saying to himself, "What does he know--what--which? [11]
Joan had come through the ordeal well. [5]
He listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his ordeal was about to begin. [2]
He had borne the ordeal of the witness-box in the Logan Trial with superb coolness; he had been in physical danger over and over again, and had kept his head; he had never been faced by a human being who embarrassed him--except his own wife. [11]
The flight to the mountains of men high in authority in the Mormon Church and State, when this affair was brought to the ordeal of a judicial investigation. [5]
Can such a slight little body endure the ordeal of the preparation for, or the strain of, the practice of the profession? [5]
Then, though it should be necessary to walk over red-hot ploughshares, let the ordeal bear witness for us. [10]
It was a shameful ordeal, which might have vexed me sorely if I had not had greater trials and expected worse. [11]
During this time Rockwell prepared himself for the ordeal which must be passed as soon as possible; gave all needed directions, and had a conference with the assistant Chief Constable to whom he confided the truth. [11]
Her eyes still rested on his face, questioningly, appraisingly, as though she were seeking to estimate his preparedness for the ordeal before him, his ability to go through with it successfully, triumphantly. [9]
Honora found the proceeding in the nature of an ordeal, for Mrs. Tyler's legs were short, her frizzled hair very blond, and the fact that it was natural made it seem, somehow, all the more damning. [9]
The operation was performed successfully, and Varley had issued from the operating-room with the look of a man who had gone through an ordeal which had taxed his nerve to the utmost, to find Valerie Meydon waiting, with a piteous, dazed look in her eyes. [11]
As this fearful ordeal we are about to pass through pictures itself to my fancy in all its dread sublimity, I begin to feel my fierce desire to converse with a genuine Emperor cooling down and passing away. [5]
Then she thought of what she would do, for there was an ordeal still to be gone through. [9]
In the fullness of time he noted its second reading, and by and by the day arrived when the grand ordeal came, and it was put upon its final passage. [5]
For now when it was all done--all the horrible ordeal over--the woman in her broke down before the little old gentleman, who had been like a benediction in the house where the ten commandments were imperfectly upheld. [11]
An' mebbe--" "Blake," interrupted Jane, nervously anxious to terminate a colloquy that she perceived was an ordeal for him. [13]
He was shrewd in the detection of trickery, and very confident in those who had once passed the ordeal of his well-schooled observing powers. [6]
Somewhat after one in the afternoon, Tom resignedly underwent the ordeal of being dressed for dinner. [5]
He steeled himself in his usual manner for the ordeal to come by smoking a cigarette, for the arrival of such a powerful ally on his wife's side lent a different aspect to the situation. [9]
I had an idea that she was suffering, that the ordeal was a terrible one for her; and at that moment there crowded into my mind, melting me, incident after incident of our past. [9]
His brain told him that here before him was a woman into whose life he had brought its first ordeal and humiliation. [11]
The work of her hands had sustained her while it lasted, but now the ordeal was come. [9]
I would see her again, but I knew not whence the strength for that ordeal was to come. [9]
I prayed that he had been able to bear up against the ordeal of my disappearance. [9]
It was a genuine relief to the whole congregation when the ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced. [5]
A new courage filled her, and now she contemplated the ordeal with a tranquillity that surprised her. [9]
It is an eventful moment, a crucial ordeal for a woman, when she forces herself to see the naked truth concerning the man she has loved, yet the man who has wronged her. [11]
That afternoon and evening Guida struggled with herself: the woman in her shrinking from the ordeal at hand. [11]
Aware that any delay would only make the ordeal more trying, her friend took Miss Bronte's arm in hers, and they went along the avenue of eager and admiring faces. [14]
The weather was damp and cold, and he sat musing on the ordeal now abruptly confronting him before his study fire when he heard a step behind him. [9]
And I know, by side-remarks which he made to me before his ordeal came upon him, that he was feeling as some of the rest of us have felt under the same circumstances. [5]
Even the grumblers and mutineers were silent, owing to the ordeal they had gone through. [9]

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