Both Uses of
ordeal
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- He will have a better nerve for the ordeal which he will have to undergo to-morrow, when he is engaged, if I remember your report aright, to dine with these people.†
Chpt 13 *
- The great ordeal was in front of us; at last we were about to make our final effort, and yet Holmes had said nothing, and I could only surmise what his course of action would be.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(ordeal) a very difficult or painful experience