Vocabulary Word
Word: tribulation
Definition: suffering; ordeal; distress; trial
Definition: suffering; ordeal; distress; trial
Sentences Containing 'tribulation'
This tempest and tribulation lasted about two hours, at the end of which he was left, not like his master, but so weak and exhausted that he could not stand.
That odd sort of wayward mood I am speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke.
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