"Distressful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. 1490 SHAKS.: Henry ...
— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various
... burned, but this accident 'neither altered the resolution nor the cheerfulness of Lady Harriot, and she continued her progress a partaker of the fatigues of the advanced corps. The next call upon her fortitude was more distressful. On the march of the 19th, the Grenadiers being liable to action at every step, she had been directed by Major Acland to follow the route of the artillery and luggage which was not exposed. At the time the action began ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote
... our narrative the neighborhood of Ballymacan was in an unsettled and distressful state. The small farmers, and such as held from six to sixteen acres, at a rent which they could at any period with difficulty pay, were barely able to support themselves and their families upon the produce of their holdings, ...
— The Emigrants Of Ahadarra - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... determined posse; unacquainted with his whereabouts, ignorant of any way of escape from that hollow square, round whose sides window after excitable window was lighting up in his honour; all in all, as distressful a figure of a fugitive from justice as ever was ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... work on that distressful field closed, after nearly two years of such effort as one would never desire to repeat. The financial management of that field, so far as the Red Cross was concerned, was done under the attorneyship of the ...
— A Story of the Red Cross - Glimpses of Field Work • Clara Barton
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