Both Uses of
distraught
in
Bleak House
- The man's mind is not so well balanced but that he bores my Lady, who, after a languid effort to listen, or rather a languid resignation of herself to a show of listening, becomes distraught and falls into a contemplation of the fire as if it were her fire at Chesney Wold, and she had never left it.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- She would come occasionally, with her usual distraught manner, and sit calmly looking miles beyond her grandchild as if her attention were absorbed by a young Borrioboolan on its native shores.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(distraught) extremely distressed--typically with worry or grief that interferes with clear thinking