George was glad to have some one to talk to, but he was distressed by this narration of his landlady.

I was vexed and puzzled, and distressed, too, after sending John away as I had done.

When he at last reappeared he was white as wax, distressed, anxious, but still resolute.

She was so distressed to find that she no longer had strength to resist her pride.

Her face was so distressed that Linda's nimble brain flew to a conclusion.

She wrung her hands in agony, distressed that she could not at once repair the evil she had done.

A word of consolation, a caress, even from her mother, would have distressed her.

"Why, I brought home so much," he said, in a distressed tone.

John pleaded, holding her as if she were a distressed child.

What are kings made for, save to succor the feeble and distressed?