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  • War, pestilence, murder, any kind of ordeal or violence, that's what they respect.†   (source)
  • Throughout his job ordeal, my father never complained.†   (source)
  • I felt as if I had passed a great ordeal.†   (source)
  • Thomas couldn't imagine how bad the whole ordeal must be—but the whole process of the Changing was still a mystery to him.†   (source)
  • It was sad that it was suffering so much—and being such a big, strapping creature it wasn't at the end of its ordeal—but there was nothing I could do about it.†   (source)
  • The pendant around her neck had also survived the ordeal.†   (source)
  • Some had mentally shut down, blocking out the entire ordeal.†   (source)
  • Walter wanted to forget about the whole ordeal, but word spread quickly, and his reputation shifted.†   (source)
  • This… ordeal… must be very hard for you.†   (source)
  • The flight itself, despite twelve long hours in the air, was not the ordeal I had feared.†   (source)
  • Not for the first time, Sticky found himself wondering what sort of ordeal Corliss had gone through.†   (source)
  • Seiler chose a successor, and within two weeks the state of Georgia sent him a new license plate for his red station wagon: UGA V. Blanche Williams, who had been the soul of stoicism throughout her son's ordeal, wore an evening gown and a pink corsage.†   (source)
  • Then I returned to my shelf in the barracks for a few hours of restless sleep before beginning the ordeal all over again the next morning.†   (source)
  • Now Betty was coming up the stairs, calling to them as she came, a little too harshly perhaps, given Jackson's ordeal of the morning.†   (source)
  • If any of them can still germinate after their ordeal, that'll be great.†   (source)
  • This became a sixty-minute ordeal coming back from San Francisco, when my mother was with us in the car.†   (source)
  • I know what an ordeal this will be: no more school, my hair gone, hours of labor, washing the bedsheets ….†   (source)
  • I could not have gotten through my ordeal without believing that someday my life would make sense.†   (source)
  • Just getting permission to go outside was an ordeal.†   (source)
  • No matter how she shrank from the ordeal before her, she knew she could not stay away.†   (source)
  • We must never forget, however, the tens of thousands of other children who didn't survive their ordeals, and the millions who are still suffering.†   (source)
  • He is preparing to take his registration exam, the two-day ordeal that will enable him to become a licensed architect, to stamp drawings and design things under his own name.†   (source)
  • As the riding became less an ordeal, Dany began to notice the beauties of the land around her.†   (source)
  • THE LOOK ON ADRI'S FACE WHEN CINDER ENTERED THE apartment almost made the whole ghastly ordeal worthwhile.†   (source)
  • One of my Sunday morning ordeals is having to lie in bed and look at Dussel's back when he's praying.†   (source)
  • "I think I've been the one that suffered the most out of this ordeal.†   (source)
  • I dreaded my sessions with Dave, a twice-weekly ordeal not incomparable to dental surgery; I felt guilty for not liking him more since he made such an effort, always asking what movies I enjoyed, what books, burning me CDs, clipping articles from Game Pro he thought I'd be interested in—sometimes he even took me over to EJ's Luncheonette for a hamburger —and yet whenever he started with the questions I froze stiff; as if I'd been pushed onstage in a play where I didn't know the lines.†   (source)
  • The ordeal of getting there only intensified the pleasure of arriving.†   (source)
  • I was on hand when the migrant Isaaas Guerra was caught and described his desert ordeal.†   (source)
  • Perhaps if they had, the horrible ordeal that followed might never have happened, and you wouldn't be sitting here reading about it right now.†   (source)
  • I had watched her go through the awkward ordeal of phoning news people.†   (source)
  • The ordeal left them hot and irritable, despite the cold.†   (source)
  • I went through this entire ordeal and here he was getting busy with somebody else.†   (source)
  • I vowed that if I lived through this ordeal, I would not touch a single one of those animals they trapped and killed out there on the hillside like innocent children.†   (source)
  • It was a great sea serpent of a line and it would be an ordeal to saw through, even with the sharpest of knives.†   (source)
  • And the SEALs started the process all over again, encouraging, sharing their optimism, explaining that I had been especially trained to withstand such an ordeal.†   (source)
  • They stumbled over the frozen ground, Hunt wincing from gout, cursing, disbelieving; Olmsted, his teeth inflamed, his night an ordeal of wakefulness, limping from his long-ago carriage accident.†   (source)
  • At the exit door to the building was a second ordeal, a line of women guards examining each prisoner again.†   (source)
  • America will overcome this ordeal, and we will be stronger for it.†   (source)
  • They were presently on hold with Comcast customer service and might not emerge for hours, if indeed they survived the ordeal at all.†   (source)
  • Charlie was begging him for a nonfiction account of his ordeal.†   (source)
  • I could focus on my son's ordeals.†   (source)
  • He had not seen a television or newspaper since his ordeal, and when he finally heard a local news station, the report stunned him.†   (source)
  • Cockerell will try him out with a little ordeal by fire tomorrow, and then we'll know if he's of any use to us.†   (source)
  • When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long-drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.†   (source)
  • There are tests, ordeals, levels of training—look, just forget it, okay?†   (source)
  • As things turned out, my father's ordeal proved even worse than might have been predicted.†   (source)
  • Through the whole ordeal, I don't think we ever said to each other: "This isn't fair."†   (source)
  • The next span was an ordeal.†   (source)
  • Decide which interview to give first—you might as well get something out of the ordeal, like a book deal.†   (source)
  • It was near sunset at Castle Caladan on the day of Paul's ordeal.†   (source)
  • Craig's ordeal began in 1974 when he was a high school senior.†   (source)
  • His stance was casual, somehow exuding nonchalance over what the rest obviously considered an ordeal.†   (source)
  • It had been the first time I'd really been alone since the whole ordeal began.†   (source)
  • I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over-dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.†   (source)
  • I'd already watched Pumpkin go through this ordeal.†   (source)
  • Then, the big celebration over at the museum, the delegations from as far away as Peru and Paraguay, an ordeal really, making that many little party sandwiches and the nephews and nieces not always showing up in time to help.†   (source)
  • "You sure you're not just worn out from our little ordeal last night?"†   (source)
  • Then she wouldn't have to go through this ordeal.†   (source)
  • As minutes ticked past, we gradually relaxed our grips upon one another, hoping that the ordeal had ended.†   (source)
  • In the morning, I felt restored and I braced myself for the new ordeal that lay ahead of me.†   (source)
  • 'And the demons are close behind," said the worried Humbug, still shaky from his ordeal.†   (source)
  • He's been through a terrible ordeal.†   (source)
  • Ronnie was still trying to digest the fact that this nightmarish ordeal was coming to an end.†   (source)
  • It was a blessing that rain soon began to pour off his hat brim in streams right in front of his face, making a little waterfall for him to hide behind until the ordeal ended.†   (source)
  • Esther said, "I want to be rewarded for this ordeal."†   (source)
  • Throughout this sad ordeal, Adam sought moments of refuge, comradeship, and ultimately spiritual strength from Chaplain Springer.†   (source)
  • And it was during the year-long Frank ordeal that the divorce came down, complete with law proceedings, family therapy, and the advent of Lorna, the Weather Pet.†   (source)
  • The older brothers hated their younger brothers for this horrible ordeal because we, most likely, caused the annual drama by not washing our hands regularly.†   (source)
  • The ordeal would eventually cost him all his toes.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Pennel's ordeal was not yet over.†   (source)
  • This writer now realizes that the victim had been through a tremendous ordeal with no sleep for approximately 24 hours which would account for her behavior at the time….†   (source)
  • The entire purpose of their ordeals and long journey had been to bring the Geographica to the one person who could destroy it—and they had lost the book mere hours before they'd reached their goal.†   (source)
  • Major — de Coverley, a Spartan in adversity, did not flinch once throughout the whole hideous ordeal.†   (source)
  • Through our letters we would share our ordeals and triumphs, but as with everything else we needed to follow certain rules.†   (source)
  • You must be tired after your ordeal.†   (source)
  • Gebrew would say later that Sister Mary Joseph Praise's face glowed, her expression was peaceful, knowing her ordeal on earth was over.†   (source)
  • The poor soul has been through the most awful ordeal imaginable.†   (source)
  • Jury selection in Mississippi was normally a oneday ordeal, at most.†   (source)
  • I felt a slight tightening on my hand and for the first time that Christmas I felt I would survive my ordeal, and for the first time in a long time, I wanted to.†   (source)
  • But for men with scant clothing and broken shoes, or no shoes, it was again an extreme ordeal.†   (source)
  • As it turned out it was hours before her ordeal was over, and during her pains she talked on and on in the emergency room about the parting of the Red Sea and staffs that turned into snakes, so that the doctor began to question his decision to give her painkillers.†   (source)
  • He gripped the fence and pulled the opening toward him, making each half foot of space an ordeal.†   (source)
  • Margaret, the cooper Blackw ell's wife, had sickened at the same time as the Sydells, and though she still ailed, it did seem as though she was destined to live through her ordeal.†   (source)
  • The ordeal lasted until morning when skinny women in sequined bodices served us scrambled eggs and bacon.†   (source)
  • The other children littered the hallway and stairs to watch their brother's ordeal.†   (source)
  • It's my understanding that the four of you have had a very confusing ordeal—that you've been frightened by stories of vyes, missing Potentials, and the incompetent Director who's endangering you all.†   (source)
  • He'd wanted to end the ordeal—and then that terrible No had issued from his mouth.†   (source)
  • But the most obvious effect of his ordeal -- or what I took to be an effect -- was the ungovernable quality of his memories.†   (source)
  • At this point in their ordeal, with the men's bodies racked by hunger and excruciating thirst, capture is becoming preferable to certain death.†   (source)
  • The National Council of Metal Industries won't put itself again through the ordeal of having me for guest of honor.†   (source)
  • It was a far more unsettling ordeal for Tradd than for Pig, and I laughed out loud when I saw the appalled look cross Tradd's face.†   (source)
  • But he looked tired, like he had gone through an ordeal that took a lot out of him.†   (source)
  • It was only by their wits and the vigilance of heaven that they weren't killed on several occasions during their ordeal.†   (source)
  • ALESSANDRO HAD lived all his life in the bosom of his family, and for him a social gathering of any type was an ordeal.†   (source)
  • His mother sits quietly through his ordeal.†   (source)
  • He didn't know if his friend would survive this night's ordeal, yet he was thrilled for Bruenor.†   (source)
  • I told myself that the plea took nearly all the risk off the table, guaranteed her release from custody, and spared her the ordeal of a trial.†   (source)
  • Makes me sick to think about what happened next but don't suppose they lived through as long an ordeal as Marie Lyons endured.†   (source)
  • For instance, Babylon, like many other ancient societies, practiced trial by ordeal.†   (source)
  • Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?†   (source)
  • It was horrible to see our little baby go through that ordeal.†   (source)
  • The Ottawa ordeal drew toward its end; but the climax was still to come.†   (source)
  • He worked to dispel his doubts about his friend as though to pass another test, like his ordeal in the park.†   (source)
  • I was exhausted from this life-or-death ordeal, and I told him I had to get back on the road and find a place to camp.†   (source)
  • It has been a considerable ordeal.†   (source)
  • In this letter to my mother he describes the ordeal of his guilt.†   (source)
  • He was however spared the ordeal for the present.†   (source)
  • Random took my arm and said, "It's an ordeal, but it's not impossible or we wouldn't be here.†   (source)
  • Among these new things was the war with its bloodshed and its horrors, its homelessness and savagery, its ordeals and the practical wisdom that it taught.†   (source)
  • It was for us a prolonged ordeal.†   (source)
  • It was a terrible ordeal, I remember, hearing you murder the lines.†   (source)
  • When, Mr. President, a man becomes a member of this body he cannot even dream of the ordeal to which he cannot fail to be exposed; of how much courage he must possess to resist the temptations which daily beset him; of that sensitive shrinking from undeserved censure which he must learn to control; of the ever-recurring contest between a natural desire for public approbation and a sense of public duty; of the load of injustice he must be content to bear, even from those who should be…†   (source)
  • Loch Morrison, Boy Scout and Life Saver, was under the ordeal of a week's camp on Moon Lake with girls.†   (source)
  • The way it turned out, though, we got lucky and were spared that particular ordeal.†   (source)
  • Matt stuck to his part of the bargain as well, though the lessons were an ordeal for them both.†   (source)
  • None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh.†   (source)
  • But I haven't anticipated the emotional ordeal that awaits me.†   (source)
  • It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was.†   (source)
  • Probably some people would think our trip was an ordeal.†   (source)
  • Thomas took that as his cue to do the same, hoping the ordeal had truly ended.†   (source)
  • The whole tedious ordeal could have stretched to ten or even fifteen minutes.†   (source)
  • Sugamo would be torn down, and the epic ordeals of POWs in Japan would fade from the world's memory.†   (source)
  • Could the dog remember that terrible ordeal at all?†   (source)
  • The ordeal we put you through last night.†   (source)
  • When her maid rolled open the door, I felt that my ordeal was over.†   (source)
  • "Ordeal by fire?" he asked, his voice both bitter and mocking.†   (source)
  • Harry has been through a terrible ordeal tonight.†   (source)
  • Even still, there are those who have made Ramiro's ordeal a focal point to attack me and my book.†   (source)
  • She is crying as though she had gone through a terrible ordeal and were happy it is over.†   (source)
  • Anyone would be disturbed after such an ordeal, and Laura was a girl with a nervous temperament.†   (source)
  • There had been another ordeal once — so many years ago.†   (source)
  • He looked like he'd been through quite an ordeal to get here.†   (source)
  • Their flights had been the most painful ordeal he had ever endured.†   (source)
  • Another emotion I felt during that ordeal was doubt in myself.†   (source)
  • The ordeal had reduced us to skin and bones.†   (source)
  • By the spring of 1946, we'd all come to recognize that we would live through the ordeal of defeat.†   (source)
  • There was no reason to prolong the ordeal a moment longer.†   (source)
  • " Paul hesitated, found that he couldn't tell Hawat about the ordeal.†   (source)
  • She looked tired from the previous night's ordeal, but also relieved.†   (source)
  • Surviving the ordeal had given Ben a newfound confidence that he carried with him to school.†   (source)
  • He would not leave, though, not until Elain's ordeal was over.†   (source)
  • "But she might know about the ordeals!" another cried.†   (source)
  • I wondered if he and Sam had encountered other minor deities during their twenty-four-hour ordeal.†   (source)
  • Trying to enlist proved to be an ordeal.†   (source)
  • For Abigail, then thirty years old, it had been the worst ordeal of her life.†   (source)
  • But Lord Stannis would not think to come to him, so the maester resigned himself to the ordeal.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she hoped that if she drank enough, the ordeal would pass her by.†   (source)
  • For someone of his extreme sensitivity, it was a painful ordeal.†   (source)
  • As the ordeal stretched on, there was more canonization.†   (source)
  • I remember the ordeal of labor and the intense pain that accompanies the onset of life.†   (source)
  • All she could concentrate on was her upcoming ordeal.†   (source)
  • Charlie nodded thoughtfully, conceding that he did have the lesser ordeal.†   (source)
  • He smiled nervously when his brief ordeal had ended.†   (source)
  • The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.†   (source)
  • The class members began to suffer psychological breaks as soon as six hours into the ordeal.†   (source)
  • Therefore, I have already passed your ordeal!†   (source)
  • "She's had an ordeal but she's young," Augustus said.†   (source)
  • Had the swan stayed with him throughout his ordeal?†   (source)
  • A nap would refresh him for the ordeal ahead.†   (source)
  • Around me, I began to hear the moans of freshmen about to break from the ordeal by insect.†   (source)
  • I am comforted in knowing I will not be there to suffer through such an agonizing ordeal.†   (source)
  • Jack First recalled Ira as stoic and focused throughout the ordeal.†   (source)
  • "I am pleased to see that you've recovered from your ordeal.†   (source)
  • In any case, I too am learning, ordeal by ordeal, my indignity.†   (source)
  • He could exhibit no physical evidence of his ordeal, but his psychic scars were evidently deep.†   (source)
  • Apprehension for the coming ordeal sickened Eragon to the point where he could barely move.†   (source)
  • This world ordeal is the result of man's attempt to live by reason!†   (source)
  • Another childhood ordeal for us was warts, which we called "monkeys."†   (source)
  • Few men have endured the kind of ordeal you faced in the desert, not to mention the divorce.†   (source)
  • I braced hard and waited for them, I prepared myself for the ordeal.†   (source)
  • But then the expression was doubtless greatly affected by the ordeal he had been put through.†   (source)
  • The woman nearly died, and she lost all of her teeth during the ordeal.†   (source)
  • I am comforted in knowing I will not be there to suffer through such an agonizing ordeal.†   (source)
  • Ira learned to take refuge from such ordeals in his beloved bottle.†   (source)
  • Despite the intensity of the fit, Eragon remained conscious throughout his ordeal.†   (source)
  • "You must choose an ordeal!" the pater insisted.†   (source)
  • It's impossible to adequately describe how we lived through this difficult ordeal.†   (source)
  • The twenty-hour bus trip from Van had turned into a thirty-two hour ordeal, but it was over.†   (source)
  • There was no hesitation, no playing out the ordeal of deciding.†   (source)
  • Maybe they'd thought they could beat the ordeal.†   (source)
  • The horror of Nabby's ordeal brought a marked change in Adams.†   (source)
  • I walked up and shook his hand, and told him that I hoped the ordeal had not been too painful.†   (source)
  • I recall how, during this ordeal, my mourning over Sophie and Nathan enveloped me like a shroud.†   (source)
  • Misfortune and ordeals had tempered characters, prepared them for great, desperate, heroic exploits.†   (source)
  • Your ordeal can't be surpassed in horror.†   (source)
  • I was sorely bothered by the approaching struggle of imagining the girl's ordeal.†   (source)
  • Thomas had leaned back against the rounded hood of the car—the whole ordeal had exhausted him emotionally and physically.†   (source)
  • I was by myself a great deal, and spent many a long hour dwelling on my future ordeal; and if I came to be hanged, what it would be like; and how long and lonely the road of death might be, that I could well be forced to travel along; and what awaited me at the other end of it.†   (source)
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