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Synonyms: distraint; distress; hurt; straiten; suffering
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A Damsel in Distress / Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975
Project Gutenberg's A Damsel in Distress, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse #3 in our series by Pelham ... !***** Title: A Damsel in Distress Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Release Date: June, 2000 [EBook #2233 details...- creator(s) - Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975
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- subject(s) - lord marshmoreton; marshmoreton; belpher; reggie; maud; lord belpher; george; reggie byng; percy; lady caroline; albert; lord marshmoreton's; george bevan; billie dore; lord; belpher castle; alice faraday; albert; reggie; alice faraday; lady caroline; lord marshmoreton; billie dore; marshmoreton; belpher castle; lord; george bevan; percy; lord marshmoreton's; reggie byng; maud; belpher; lord belpher; george;
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Of Tragedy / Hume, David
the actors into deeper distress, by means of that contrast and disappointment ... of danger, pain, distress, sickness, deaths, murders, and cruelties; as well as joy, beauty details...- creator(s) - Hume, David
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- subject(s) - agreeable; uneasiness; predominant; sorrow; tragedy; subordinate; passion; disagreeable; melancholy; compassion; eloquence; distress; satisfaction; passions; pleasure; jealousy; affliction; sentiments; audience; softened; anxiety; affection; movement; ind; predominant; subordinate; passion; jealousy; passions; melancholy; disagreeable; agreeable; satisfaction; anxiety; affection; uneasiness; tragedy; audience; distress; pleasure; softened; compassion; ind; affliction; movement; sorrow; sentiments; eloquence;
- title - Of Tragedy
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An Essay on the Principle of Population / Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834
. This constant effort as constantly tends to subject the lower classes of the society to distress and to prevent ... consequently must live much worse, and many of them be reduced to severe distress. The number of labourers also details...- creator(s) - Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834
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- subject(s) - godwin; population; subsistence; labour; increase; food; quantity; society; population; godwin; society; labour; subsistence; increase; quantity; food;
- title - An Essay on the Principle of Population
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Human Nature and Other Sermons / Butler, Joseph, 1692-1752
in human nature. Suppose a man to relieve an innocent person in great distress; suppose the same man ... that in a peculiar manner they feel for each other shame, sudden danger, resentment, honour, prosperity, distress details...- creator(s) - Butler, Joseph, 1692-1752
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- subject(s) - benevolence; principle; compassion; mankind; neighbour; butler, joseph, 1692-1752; neighbour; compassion; mankind; principle; benevolence;
- title - Human Nature and Other Sermons
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The Female Gamester A Tragedy / Howard, Gorges Edmond, 1715-1786
. The revolution and fall of empires affect us less, than the distresses of a private family. Homer ... . But, why again, should we distress ourselves For that we cannot help? THOMAS. Ungenerous thought details...- creator(s) - Howard, Gorges Edmond, 1715-1786
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- subject(s) - belmour; lord belmour; andrews; lady belmour; maria; constantia; lord weston; wilson; jefferson; lord; andrews's house; lady belmour; constantia; jefferson; maria; lord; wilson; belmour; lord weston; andrews; andrews's house; lord belmour;
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The Nervous Child / Cameron, Hector Charles
-sensitiveness, which pass insensibly into neuropathy in adult life. To prevent so distressing a result is our aim ... for some time a most distressing constipation which has resisted a large number of purgatives of increasing details...- creator(s) - Cameron, Hector Charles
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- subject(s) - nervous; child; cyclic vomiting; children; nervous unrest; children; cyclic vomiting; nervous unrest; child; nervous;
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A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself / Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw
Albert and his distressed Family, who have the sole Profits arising from the Sale of it ... him in the Exercise of his Faith and Patience, which in the most distressing and pitiable Trials and Calamities details...- creator(s) - Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw
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- subject(s) - james albert; albert; albert; james albert;
- title - A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself
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Sketches New and Old, Part 4. / Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
at his distress that we did not think to call him back and endeavor to comfort him until he was gone ... to his sorrowing heart, we stopped, the press at once and inserted it in our columns: DISTRESSING ACCIDENT details...- creator(s) - Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
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- subject(s) - conrad; dat; den; an' den; conrad; an' den; dat; den;
- title - Sketches New and Old, Part 4.
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Three John Silence Stories / Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951
with what is permanent in the soul, and letting the impermanent slip by without power to wound or distress; while ... a case where the cause is hidden deep down in some spiritual distress, and--" "But the symptoms first details...- creator(s) - Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951
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- subject(s) - colonel wragge; wragge; vezin; colonel; doctor; silence; john silence; vezin; silence; wragge; colonel wragge; john silence; colonel; doctor;
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Vana Parva, Part 1 /
in grief? We will follow you whithersoever ye will go! Surely have we been distressed upon learning that ye ... and on account of the distress of Draupadi and the loss of our kingdom! Alas, as they are distressed details...- creator(s) -
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- subject(s) - tirtha; nala; yudhishthira; bharata; brahmanas; one obtaineth; tirtha called; king; bharata race; kuru race; vaisampayana continued; one acquireth; merit; king nala; mighty; thousand kine; sacrifice; son; bharata; son; tirtha; nala; sacrifice; king nala; mighty; thousand kine; yudhishthira; brahmanas; kuru race; king; vaisampayana continued; one acquireth; one obtaineth; tirtha called; bharata race; merit;
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