Type of call

Usage examples of distress.

For the first time, Adams was confronted with so much that generations of his people had abhorred and rebelled against, and he found himself both distressed and strangely moved.

What most distressed Adams about Franklin was his approach with Vergennes.

Especially distressing to Vergennes was the thought of Adams ever having any say in a peace settlement.

In distress, he turned to Adams, who arranged a loan with banks in Amsterdam, as Adams had on occasion for his own expenses.

As distressing as almost anything for Adams was the flood of requests for his help in securing government jobs.

Returning to her room later, Adams was trembling so much that he could not stand and had to take a chair, but then seeing that Louisa Smith was in worse distress, he got up and went to her side to tell her they must be strong.

The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements.

After two doubtful battles, he consented to retire, and the Austrasian king relieved the distress of his camp with an immediate supply of corn and cattle.

She was missing from her home near Aylesbury for a month, and when she turned up again in a distressed condition she said that she had been detained by people who wanted to make a servant of her.

Beyond his pain for Lizzie, and his distress at the blackening of her reputation, he, too, missed the McGillivrays, missed the joy and comfort of suddenly being part of a large, exuberant family, after so many years of loneliness.

Despite the fact that Blackheart had managed to dislodge Abby from his back, the horse still bucked and kicked, eyes rolling wildly as he emitted high-pitched neighs of distress.

Elai watched this business of boatbuilding from the crest of First Tower with a certain forlorn distress.

He drove back to Bonita Vista distressed, unhappy, and filled with a bleak resignation.

Incidentally, I have taken the precaution of providing concentrated cyanide tablets for Henriques and myself: death from the Satan Bug, as we have observed from experiments on animals, is rather more prolonged than death from botulinus and most distressing.

But it would be churlish to deny that he had been kindness itself after the distressing theft of the Breguet watch at Temple Meads Station.