" The distress with which he spoke urged Maggie to say something.
He shouldn't like his father to be under Wakem; he thought it would look mean-spirited; but his mother's main distress was the utter impossibility of ever "turning Mr Tulliver round about Wakem," or getting him to hear reason; no, they would all have to go and live in a pigsty on purpose to spite Wakem, who spoke "so as nobody could be fairer.
Poor Mrs Moss herself listened in trembling submission, while Maggie looked with bewildered distress at Tom to see if he showed any signs of understanding this trouble, and caring about poor aunt Moss.
He was full of timid care for his wife, not only because he deprecated any harshness of judgment from her, but because he felt a deep distress at the sight of her suffering.
She tried to master herself with the thought that this might be a turning-point in three lives—not in her own; no, there the irrevocable had happened, but—in those three lives which were touching hers with the solemn neighborhood of danger and distress.
To mercy, pity, peace, and love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight, Return their thankfulness.
Tyke is in great distress about him," said Mrs.
" "Celia," said Dorothea, entreatingly, "you distress me.
Dorothea's distress when she was leaving the church came chiefly from the perception that Mr.
We must begin to get documents about the feeling of the country, as well as the machine-breaking and general distress.
Mary Garth, discerning his distress in the twitchings of his mouth, and his recourse to a cough, came cleverly to his rescue by asking him to change seats with her, so that he got into a shadowy corner.
Then she dried her eyes, reminded that her distress must not be betrayed to her husband; and looked round the room thinking that she must order the servant to attend to it as usual, since Mr.
Casaubon on the library steps clinging forward as if he were in some bodily distress.
And, to their surprise and distress, were very coldly received by Perks.
The nurse was pitiful to his distress, but she had little to say that could console him.
" Dirk gave a low cry of distress.
But he was in very real distress.
"Haven't you been in bitter distress once when a helping hand was held out to you?
He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery.
She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.
