Distressing

Examples

• Some intense associations of a most distressing nature were vividly recalled, I think. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I saw the word, and am curious to know how it could be so very entertaining to the one, and so very distressing to the other. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We said no more to each other about the distressing interview of the morning. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• From the point of view of the political hack, Judge Lindsey made a most distressing use of the red herring. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This is a distressing predicament for these young people,' thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Margaret could not bear the sight of the suspense, which was even more distressing to her father than to herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I appeal to you not to take advantage of your position in this house to make my position in it distressing and disagreeable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have kept many things from your knowledge, Marian, for fear of distressing you, and making you unhappy at the outset of our new lives. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My rough beard wee distressing me beyond measure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It's a distressing case--very; I never knew one more so; but really, my dear sir, really we have no power to control this lady's actions. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She seemed to like distressing us both by parting us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the commentary upon it now indelibly written in his handsome face made it far more distressing than it used to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Margaret began to wonder whether all offers were as unexpected beforehand,--as distressing at the time of their occurrence, as the two she had had. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It's distressing to reflect upon, said St. Clare, dryly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There were those among the unregenerated who attributed the unceasing head-winds to our distressing choir-music. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She had read Miss Crawford's note only once, and how to reply to anything so imperfectly understood was most distressing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• To own to the partial truth of what he had heard would be distressing as long as the humiliating position resulting from the event was unimproved. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I've been thinking of it, these two or three nights past; I have such distressing pains, and such strange feelings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It glanced through her mind that Mr. Casaubon had left the property away from her--which would not be so very distressing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I seem to have been distressing you for nothing. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It is really too distressing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is difficult indeed--it is distressing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The impression I have derived from our correspondence does not, thank God, lead me to any such distressing conclusion as that. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For many men before Gautama in that land of uneventful sunshine had found life distressing and mysterious. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is so very painful and distressing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• That this way was, of all others, the most distressing to himself, was awkward enough; but the reddleman's love was generous. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I am afraid, Miss Halcombe, something very distressing has happened. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am no more answerable for this distressing calamity, my lady, than you are, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Sleep was coy and hard to be won; dreams were distressing and baleful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why, it was very distressing, you know, to see poor Pa so low and hear him say such terrible things, and I couldn't help crying myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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