"Worriment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... laughed aloud at his worriment and his prospective precautions. Who ever heard of any one being robbed on the road ...
— The Motor Girls • Margaret Penrose
... straight to the front in life, taking up his father's business and being appointed a Court Officer. Thence he was promoted to the Woolsack, became rich, cultivated a double chin, was knighted, and passed out full of honors. The chief worriment and source of shame in the life of Sir Christopher Milton came from the unseemly conduct of his brother John, who was much given to producing political and theological pamphlets. And once in desperation Sir Christopher Milton requested ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... lost flesh, but my worriment of mind for the last few hours has been awful," replied the teamster, with a grin of satisfaction at ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... that her face was a picture of the worriment and straining of her past night, for it was a treacherous mirror of her soul. She smiled as she made a little pause in the reception-room door. Major King bowed, with formal, almost official, dignity. His hand was in ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden
... unsatisfied, sensuality very frequently gives rise to great religio-sexual enthusiasm. The circumcised foreskin of Christ, where it was and what had become of it, was a source of continual worriment to the nun Blanbekin; in an ecstacy of ungratified libido, St. Catherine of Genoa would frequently cast herself on the hard floor of her cell, crying: "Love! love! I can endure it no longer;" St. Armelle and St. Elizabeth were troubled ...
— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir
... passed through since the last sleep I had on board the ship,—for since then had come the shipwreck, the saving of the Dean and carrying him ashore, the walk around the island, besides all the anxiety and worriment of mind in consequence of my own unhappy situation ...
— Cast Away in the Cold - An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner • Isaac I. Hayes
... silence of his wound made much worriment. The little blistering voices of pain that had called out from his scalp were, he thought, definite in their expression of danger. By them he believed that he could measure his plight. But when they remained ominously silent he became frightened ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... the stage broke down and delayed me. Then I slept in the cars, and a boy played a trick on me, and waked me up, and made me get out at the wrong station, so I had to stay over nigh in Whipple Village. To tell the truth I had a great deal of worriment with one thing and another, getting here; but it's all right now," he added, ...
— Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys • Various
... romancing Patsy's quest was forgotten; they might have reached Arden and despatched her errand, for all the worriment their loitering caused her. As for the tinker, if he had either a mission or a destination he gave no sign for her to ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... come first!" He was obtuse for the instant in his worriment, and did not catch the subtle shade of bitterness in ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... replied, "since if I had known you really cared for me—so much—I would never have married you. Oh, it is impossible!" the girl laughed, with a trace of worriment. "You had not laid eyes on me until a week ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... making every one within hearing of his low voice hysterical with laughter over his funny stories. He took an instant fancy to Georgia, and of course Georgia liked him—everybody liked Ashley, Tom explained. So Betty's last worriment vanished, leaving nothing to mar ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... of his father's business, or occupation, that he could conceive of no cause for worriment. When his advances met with little response he asked, "Have you ...
— The Young Bank Messenger • Horatio Alger |
