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...German ship Lizette was seen in the ice off St. John's last Sunday evening, with signs of distress. Tuesday morning tugs found her sunk on a reef. Five dead bodies have come ashore, and it is believed that all were lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/9/1882 | See Source »

With grievous burdens; and for their distress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTUMN WALK BY THE SEA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...greatly off-off-fended. I am much in-in-in-in - " but he had to give this up, and as the greatness of his affliction came home to him, unspeakable distress overspread his face and he exclaimed, "I wish-sh-sh I were d-d-dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIGHTLY THE WRONG MAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

...draw the curtain on this heart-rending scene, and as we glide down the long, lonely hallway, let us softly apply our ear to the door of a neighboring room. Hark! Do you not hear it, - the convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CO-EDUCATIONAL INCIDENT. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...sort of thing in Teheran), I entered, when, Bismillah! a fierce, white-bearded Mollah, guarding a beauteous, moon-faced damsel, imprisoned behind a high fence, confronted me. He is, doubtless, the Kislar Aga of the Dhin's household. I wished to succor the damsel, who kept crying in evident distress, "Don't know. Must see the Dhin, Mr. Jones," to a young man who appeared to be tormenting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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