It would be, he felt assured, no trifling ordeal.
Matthew, however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up, grasping with one thin brown hand the handle of a shabby, old-fashioned carpet-bag; the other she held out to him.
It has been—a bit of an ordeal.
CHAPTER VI The ordeal was not so dreadful, after all.
It was a genuine relief to the whole congregation when the ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced.
You never know when a 1 hour flight might turn into a 4 hour ordeal.
After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with expectation.
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.
They then texted friends who called the emergency services and they were freed after a three-hour ordeal.
If you choose only to complain and escape from the ordeal, it will always follow you wherever you go.
If you choose only to complain and escape from the ordeal, it will always follow you wherever you go.
At that point, you may need to call on a doctor to remove it manually - in 1998, pediatric gastroenterologist David Milov published a study noting three such cases in children, and the ordeal does not seem pleasant.
Every week the one who has lost the least weight is eliminated in an often tearful public ordeal.
A measure of hope will take you through the unpleasant ordeal.
The video of her ordeal quickly went viral, drawing anger and condemnation from the public over the treatment of bridesmaids.
Perhaps the worst part about the whole ordeal is that I don't have room to start any new collections.
Edwards said the cat appeared to have come through its ordeal unscathed, seemingly without any canine side effects.
After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with expectation.
So an old proverb says that the sweetest fruit is one that has undergone the bitterest ordeal.
"The difficulty of the ordeal seems a means of testing the authenticity of his/her commitment to the project of becoming French," the sociologists Didier Fassin and Sarah Mazouz concluded in their 2009 paper "What Is It to Become French?
