Word: distrest
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...time.'' Beneath these cracks there sometimes appears a healthy anger with almost as many teeth as Jaws. Not a bad attribute for a for a man who wants to exchange wet fantasies for dry humor. As Johnson (Samuel, not Lyndon) once observed, ''Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,/ Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest...
...stain'd with carnage, red with human gore; Shrouded in blood they now appear'd to stand, And pointed to their agonizing land; I saw the thousands, thousands, thousands slain, On their primeval, their parental plain; Their lacerated limbs, with chains opprest, Their minds, alas! with mighty woes distrest! Each body mangled, scourged in every part, While sighs and groans burst from each swelling heart! I saw in tides of tears their sorrows flow, And still new anguish added to their...