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direst
1. Then the train whistle blew and the harassed looking RTO and the MPs were now running up and down the platform chivvying everyone along and threatening the direst consequences for those who did not get on the train
2. 1) he is, in fact in the direst position, having had to flee from Jerusalem due to his
3. “And she says; ‘There is such a mechanism, but it is only to be used in the event of the direst emergency
4. In my whole life I had never thought my mother capable of the fury she now displayed, as soon as the door closed behind us her tongue spewed out the direst threats against the priest, Gled sat quietly in the corner watching every move that mother made, this in itself was most unusual as Gled had never ever sat quietly in the corner or anywhere else for that matter, in her fury everything at hand was hurled across the room, twice she held aloft my father’s obsidian battle sword, finally dropping onto the long bench in tears, the cold hatred in her eyes quite frightened me, then she beckoned me to sit next to her and said
5. the direst of circumstances
6. In her direst moments, Jillian even worried that Astarte might have AIDS, as sexual as she was
7. the direst calamities, she would go about her work unfazed
8. even the direst of all griefs
9. who suffered at the hands of man the direst torture,
10. Indeed, that theory will prostrate itself to the direst expedients for relief
11. * By a divine law physical miseries of the direst description here follow hard upon law-breaking
12. grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
13. But it was the constant shadow of my presence!—the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged!—and who had grown to exist only by this perpetual poison of the direst revenge! Yea, indeed!—he did not err!—there was a fiend at his elbow! A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment!”
14. ” It is the old Regan and the new one together, honest, responsible, long-suffering—the real self she’ll only let you see under the direst of circumstances
15. This ratio is also called the “acid-test ratio” because it should only be used during the direst of situations when trying to discern whether a business has the ability to meet short-term obligations
16. Our task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importance
17. This little man, in the direst tones, said, "I've a job in Belfast if I just had a pound for the train fare!" I hesitated
18. It was in that crisis of the direst extremity that many brave women deliberately rejected life and chose rather to remain and die with the men whom they loved
19. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through
20. Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling
21. Your mother says herself that she was left in the direst poverty, and would have died of starvation had it not been for Pavlicheff, who generously allowed her a yearly pension of six hundred roubles
22. A man of the present day, whether he believes in the divinity of Christ or not, cannot fail to see that to assist in the capacity of tzar, minister, governor, or commissioner in taking from a poor family its last cow for taxes to be spent on cannons, or on the pay and pensions of idle officials, who live in luxury and are worse than useless; or in putting into prison some man we have ourselves corrupted, and throwing his family on the streets; or in plundering and butchering in war; or in inculcating savage and idolatrous superstitions in the place of the law of Christ; or in impounding the cow found on one's land, though it belongs to a man who has no land; or to cheat the workman in a factory, by imposing fines for accidentally spoiled articles; or making a poor man pay double the value for anything simply because he is in the direst poverty;—not a man of the present day can fail to know that all these actions are base and disgraceful, and that they need not do them
23. The train I met on the 9th of September going with soldiers, guns, cartridges, and rods, to confirm the rich landowner in the possession of a small forest which he had taken from the starving peasants, which they were in the direst need of, and he was in no need of at all, was a striking proof of how men are capable of doing deeds directly opposed to their principles and their conscience without perceiving it
24. It was the first long sleep she had had for weeks, and the refreshment came at the time of her direst need, for at daybreak the summons roused her
