Both Uses of
distraught
in
The Magic Mountain
- Gathering her skirts in one hand, she bent low as she took those two steps, and with her other small, heavily ringed hand, she pressed a handkerchief to her mouth—above it, her large, pale, distraught eyes stared at nothing.†
Chpt 4.7 *distraught = extremely distressed
- It was not until very late the evening before that it occurred to Hans Castorp, who was very distraught, that it would be necessary to have a doctor present on the field of battle.†
Chpt 7.9
Definition:
extremely distressed--typically with worry or grief that interferes with clear thinking