worriment
Example Sentences
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Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remembered with some worriment, that he had cursed under the pain of the dressing of the wound.
From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
Even in her attempt to speak gaily and happily, Bobbie could discern her worriment.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale
We must be cautious, and that is the good way—the bit-by-bitness is what tells; now a look, now a word, now a hint, there a suspicion, there a worriment, there a hesitation or a doubt.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Had they carried their temporary possessor into any such worriment and trouble as he himself had often travelled through on their worn but faithful soles?
From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons
