Citations:distress

Verb

 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
 * "Be happy, my dear Victor," replied Elizabeth; "there is, I hope, nothing to distress you; and be assured that if a lively joy is not painted in my face, my heart is contented.




 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * Scrooge's nephew, whom he had scarcely seen but once, and who, meeting him in the street that day, and seeing that he looked a little — "just a little down you know," said Bob, inquired what had happened to distress him.

Noun

 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * In this plight, therefore, he went home and refrained himself as long as he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; but he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased.
 * Then was Christian in great distress, and knew not what to do; for he wanted that which used to relieve him, and that which should have been his pass into the Celestial City.
 * Now in this place Christian had double sorrow, because it was through his unadvised counsel that they were brought into this distress.






 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
 * He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
 * In this manner many appalling hours passed; several of my dogs died, and I myself was about to sink under the accumulation of distress when I saw your vessel riding at anchor and holding forth to me hopes of succour and life.