"Sore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... previous to commencing housekeeping, had never, except in a playful manner, alluded to the ill-dressed food which daily made its appearance on the table. To-day, however, when they returned from church and sat down to dinner, probably owing to being a little sore on the subject of the soiled linen, Emily saw him knit his brows in rather a portentous manner, while, in no very amiable tone of ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... his sore trouble a little flash of joy shot through Tip's heart. He was different, then. Kitty had noticed it; she knew he was trying to be different. There must be a little bit ...
— Tip Lewis and His Lamp • Pansy (aka Isabella Alden)
... sore distress, would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner: in sign whereof they hang the dead sea-bird ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... on, it became a sore trial to the Parisians to be cut off from all outside news. Not a letter nor a newspaper crossed the lines. Even the agents of Foreign Governments, and Mr. Washburne, the only foreign ambassador in Paris, were prohibited from hearing from their Governments, unless all communications ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer
... at a late hour with the result that the clause was defeated by 271 votes to 135, being a majority against it of 136, or two to one. But though such a vote would have been a sore discouragement if it had represented the real opinion of the House, on the present occasion it meant little if anything. The government had sent out a "five-line" whip for its supporters, and so effective had this whip been, combined with Mr. Gladstone's ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
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