But would it not be something of an
ordeal? Gossip had filtered to Anne regarding the light in which the Gardners viewed the "infatuation" of son and brother.
But it is a terrible
ordeal for a man to stand upright on his two legs unswaying, and decide that in all the universe he finds for himself but one freedom--namely, the anticipating of the day of his death.
The position was one of misery for all three; and not one of them would have been equal to enduring this position for a single day, if it had not been for the expectation that it would change, that it was merely a temporary painful
ordeal which would pass over.
As this fearful
ordeal we are about to pass through pictures itself to my fancy in all its dread sublimity, I begin to feel my fierce desire to converse with a genuine Emperor cooling down and passing away.
The girl was a prey to the nervous reaction from the frightful
ordeal through which she had so recently passed, and in her overwrought state it seemed that never again should she dare descend to the ground among the fearsome dangers which infested the broad stretch of jungle that she knew must lie between herself and the nearest village of her faithful Waziri.
Horace shrank from the
ordeal as Mercy shrank from it.
I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous
ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.
She passed the
ordeal of examination successfully, and accepted the wages offered with out a murmur.
She had carried herself bravely right to the moment of the
ordeal, but the sight of the four horses, ranged two and two opposing her, with the thing patent that she was to hold in her hands the hooks on the double-trees and form the link that connected the two spans which were to pull in opposite directions--at the sight of this her courage failed her and she shrank back, drooping and cowering, her face buried in her hands.
It was a genuine relief to the whole congregation when the
ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced.
Burch in the afternoon because he called upon Rebecca to "lead." She had seen the pallor creep into the girl's face, the hunted look in her eyes, and the trembling of the lashes on her cheeks, and realized the
ordeal through which she was passing.
The idea, however, that his wife was suffering ill-effects from her terrible
ordeal, braced him up.