Distresses

Examples

• Thou seest, Conrade, how this holy work distresses him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• My dear child, what distresses you? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In the present season of scarcity, the high price of corn no doubt distresses the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He would then have suffered under the pecuniary distresses which, because they are removed, he now reckons as nothing. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It distresses me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Agriculture must have declined, and the population notably decreased through the plagues and distresses from which it had suffered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When foreign distresses came to be felt by us through the channels of commerce, we set ourselves to apply remedies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And that evening he said-- Rosamond, have you heard anything that distresses you? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Our own distresses, though they were occasioned by the fictitious reciprocity of commerce, encreased in due proportion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I perceive, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, that thou dost continue to burden me with the charge of distresses, which most fain would I have prevented. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• John Ball's speech] It was from these distresses that the peasant wars of the fourteenth century sprang. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fanny, being always a very courteous listener, and often the only listener at hand, came in for the complaints and the distresses of most of them. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Editor: Tod