Word: distress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...German ship Lizette was seen in the ice off St. John's last Sunday evening, with signs of distress. Tuesday morning tugs found her sunk on a reef. Five dead bodies have come ashore, and it is believed that all were lost...
With grievous burdens; and for their distress...
...greatly off-off-fended. I am much in-in-in-in - " but he had to give this up, and as the greatness of his affliction came home to him, unspeakable distress overspread his face and he exclaimed, "I wish-sh-sh I were d-d-dead...
...draw the curtain on this heart-rending scene, and as we glide down the long, lonely hallway, let us softly apply our ear to the door of a neighboring room. Hark! Do you not hear it, - the convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom...