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    ordeal


    1. an ordeal? How is it possible that today all of my organs are functioning?


    2. After this ordeal we find to love until


    3. Nathan's part in this ordeal was something I did not anticipate, let alone prepare for


    4. I look back at the steps, at the ground of my ordeal,


    5. Finally the unremitting, almost desolate, sameness of the basin floor was interrupted by a small farming village and as Afternoonday of Iyosaign waned, on the anniversary of boarding Vyinga's ship, the ordeal was over


    6. Getting onto Sefir’s back is an ordeal and a half, not helped by the fact that Berndt is totally ignoring my difficulties, leaving it to the stable lad to help me


    7. The ordeal made them see a little more clearly to say the least


    8. Lucy wept and wept throughout the ordeal, hanging onto her mother’s arm with feral strength as they dragged Alan’s torso out into the garden and rolled it into the pit that had been dug for the patio


    9. When her ordeal by sea was done, they docked at a much larger village/building than she had seen so far


    10. twenty seconds, but it turned out to be a several minute ordeal

    11. that the stress of the afternoon’s ordeal had finally caught


    12. she has to go through this ordeal


    13. ordeal was almost over, but was still cautious


    14. through this ordeal again?’ he said reproachfully


    15. Pippi – still suffering with shock from his ordeal - smiled


    16. But your wife has just been lead away for evaluation after the ordeal she's had trying to survive in that base for only seven years


    17. He seemed to have suffered not at all from the ordeal – but that was another illusion, for it could be said he had suffered the most, having died to save the Elf Prince


    18. She’d missed ariston, not that she had much appetite after the ordeal of her testimony


    19. What I wouldn’t have given to lie in such a bath after our ordeal on Buskados


    20. this the object of her long and desolate ordeal? She felt a strange connection to this brilliant artist

    21. ” He went on to explain the ordeal in fascinating


    22. ordeal, never at a loss for vulgar observations


    23. now, she’d traced Odysseus's path all the way from Troy to Ithaca, blending his ordeal with her own


    24. When he had finished, Darniil bowed and stepped back, exhausted and relieved at the same time that the ordeal was over


    25. I have missed you and I need your strength to survive this ordeal


    26. At first these evenings had proved a pleasant diversion, then a routine, and finally an ordeal that he nevertheless attempted to endure in the best humour


    27. I am weary and shaken from last night’s ordeal, and the music is soothing


    28. The Milo crew was busy getting the ship cleaned up, painted, and repaired after the ordeal they had gone through in the Bering Sea


    29. I was overwhelmed that so many people thought so highly of me it made me feel better about myself and it also made me stronger and I knew that I could face the ordeal in front of me now


    30. “Tell Colonel Jack that I appreciate everything he has done for me I also want to thank you Sir you have been a good support throughout this ordeal

    31. The ordeal over, she was going to pieces


    32. had not just come through the punishing ordeal of the shift


    33. unrelated to his ordeal


    34. , and seated himself in front of the victim, who knew she was innocent, and had perfect confidence in facing the ordeal


    35. This ordeal by poison was not confined to Ashanti alone; but was, and is still, practised in many places in the interior


    36. But the position was far from comfortable, and it was a terrible ordeal to lie hour after hour, behind scanty cover, while a frontal, oblique, enfilade and cross fire was poured against the position, with seven-inch shells thumping over into the centre of the hill at intervals


    37. In this case Van Rooyen kidnapped the wrong girl (she looked much younger than what she was) and escaped and reported her ordeal to the police


    38. Now more than ever since this ordeal commenced, he felt alone, as if he were the only man left on earth


    39. I wanted this ordeal to be over quickly


    40. My hostage will not be normal after such an ordeal and needs a complete debriefing done by the professionals

    41. In this case, victims became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their six-day ordeal


    42. He found himself accused of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of cocaine, under investigation for murder, and following Caroline’s success at spreading the tale of her ordeal, was left without a friend to intervene


    43. I worried about telling her of Therese’s setback with the therapy and the horrific ordeal she faced with the hospital and almost dying, but I wanted Therese’s ―Real Life‖ survival story to give her hope


    44. to the ordeal of those who had sought the bonanza of the Yu-


    45. What a relief! It was a mad impulse to bring her, and it was only once they were a few light years from home, when he wondered if he was letting himself in for a big ordeal


    46. Brendan was so scared, more scared than at any moment thus far in this whole damned ordeal


    47. heart stayed true throughout your ordeal


    48. Then another one, and another one, as the seconds that passed by seemed an endless ordeal


    49. It would probably be a matter of few hours, no more than a couple of days at the most for this blasted ordeal to end


    50. One man thought the whole ordeal was













































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    Synonyms for "ordeal"

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    "ordeal" definitions

    a severe or trying experience


    a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence