distressed

• That is the meaning of democracy I have been very much distressed, my fellow-citizens, by some of the things that have happened recently. —  In Our First Year of the War Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918
• Do not look so much distressed, my dear Gaston. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• Johnnie was distressed--and on two scores: first, that One-Eye should have gone so abruptly; second, that Cis, when given a chance to ask for something, had not named a gift worth having, such as another book But you've got more books now than you've had time to read!" —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
• I see before me a distressed, a desolated country, and in the measure before you I think I see the means through which it may be rescued and restored erelong to prosperity and a healthful condition, and the free institutions of our country preserved In reply to a charge of inconsistency brought against him by Mr. Buckalew, Mr. Johnson said: "Consistency in a public man can never properly be esteemed a virtue when he becomes satisfied that it will operate to the prejudice of his country. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• If so, in addition to the loss of character, there will be a waste of property in fines, &c.; We are all distressed, our drafts are coming due and the Banks have ceased to discount, in consequence of the stagnation of trade, through "stopping the supplies." —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada

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