The Reaper's heat is intense, causing burning pain, sweating, and even temporary discomfort.
Anna, melancholy and taciturn, exerted herself to minimise the discomfort of her scholars.
Nay, she had actually forgotten her soul in the sensations of shame and discomfort.
' Anna said nothing, had nothing to say, was conscious of nothing save excessive discomfort.
Paul became a changed character—easy to live with, and no longer apt to flash danger and discomfort round him.
I know not whether Graham felt this examination: if he did, he was cautious not to check or discomfort it by any retaliatory look.
After that day Jill exerted all her fortitude, for she liked to have the boys call her brave and admire the cheerful way in which she endured two hours of discomfort.
Now, however, she was bound to try the new plan and do something toward reforming not only the boy's condition, but the disorder and discomfort of home.
It is a source of constant discomfort, for it behaves like a skeleton at the feast of all our enjoyments.
Stephen was continually, through the morning, expressing his anxiety at the fatigue and discomfort she was suffering, and alluded to landing and to the change of motion and repose she would have in a carriage, wanting to assure himself more completely by presupposing that everything would be as he had arranged it.
Lucy was too entirely absorbed by the evil that had befallen her,—the spoiling of her pretty best clothes, and the discomfort of being wet and dirty,—to think much of the cause, which was entirely mysterious to her.
" "Be just, Chettam," said the easy, large-lipped Rector, who objected to all this unnecessary discomfort.
That was all that had been explicitly in her mind; but she had been urged also by a vague discomfort.
She threw herself on a chair, not heeding that she was in the dazzling sun-rays: if there were discomfort in that, how could she tell that it was not part of her inward misery?
But let us take a decided course, and put an end to any discomfort you may be suffering.
But selfish people always think their own discomfort of more importance than anything else in the world.
If you've got to leave this pleasant place, and your friends who will miss you, and your snug homes that you've just settled into, why, when the hour strikes I've no doubt you'll go bravely, and face all the trouble and discomfort and change and newness, and make believe that you're not very unhappy.
However, the widow made a pretty fair show of astonishment, and heaped so many compliments and so much gratitude upon Huck that he almost forgot the nearly intolerable discomfort of his new clothes in the entirely intolerable discomfort of being set up as a target for everybody's gaze and everybody's laudations.
To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was a spacious temporary platform upon which were seated the scholars who were to take part in the exercises of the evening; rows of small boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of their bare arms, their grandmothers' ancient trinkets, their bits of pink and blue ribbon and the flowers in their hair.
We can practice leaning into these feelings of discomfort and let them show us where we need to go.
