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Meredith's "The ___ of Richard Feverel"
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n. a severe or trying experience a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence [syn: trial ...
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I-A, who is not only killed but destroyed, yet remakes himself, and who is consequently sent to Amel and put through the god-making ordeal.
CHAPTER XV THE SECOND ORDEAL Oros bowed and left the place, whereon the Hesea signed to us to stand upon her right and to Atene to stand upon her left.
This was the first temptation, the ordeal of thy flesh--nay, not the first--the second, for Atene and her lurings were the first.
For Bazil it was an exhausting ordeal, and his energy reserves were already low.
They constitute the E-ser-e or ordeal beans of the negroes of Old Calabar, being administered to persons accused of witchcraft or other crimes.
Rogue on the tremble of detection Rumour for the nonce had a stronger spice of truth than usual She can make puddens and pies The born preacher we feel instinctively to be our foe There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness Those days of intellectual coxcombry Troublesome appendages of success Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Ordeal Richard Feverel, v1 by George Meredith THE Ordeal OF RICHARD FEVEREL By GEORGE MEREDITH 1905 BOOK 2.
A few years ago he lost his daughter to cystic fibrosis and that ordeal turned him into a different person.
How long the Mask had been here, it was difficult to tell, for Drock was the sort who would weaken under a brief ordeal.
The necessity of virtue, the dread ordeals of the grave, the certainty of retribution, the mystic circuits of transmigration, a glorious immortality, the paths of planets and gods and souls through creation, all were impressively enounced, dramatically shown.
He must choose between certain death and the torture of the gauntlet, as frontiersmen named this savage ordeal.
Could Gussie, unable to face the ordeal confronting him, have legged it during the night down a water-pipe?
She held herself with the regal grace of a queen, despite the humbling ordeal he had forced upon her by making her serve his needs in full view of her people.
The ordeal of the patient, however, could be considerable, as Adams knew from all he had seen at the time he was inoculated, and largely because of various purges that were thought essential to recovery.
Abigail came word that she and the children, having survived the long ordeal of inoculation in Boston, were at last home again in Braintree.
As Goesle slowly dimmed his lights and the troupers disbanded, the muzhiks also got up and drifted toward their izba huts, with something of the air of having been finally excused from an ordeal.