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
Perhaps, if their thought had not been given so entirely to the bazaar during the last few days, the lawyer’s wife and daughter would before this have noticed his worriment of mind.
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Penrose, Margaret
It may seem that Winn was borrowing needless worriment, and yet once the canker spot of suspicion fastens itself upon a man's mind, it grows until it turns all things green.
From Rockhaven by Munn, Charles Clark
It is the mere worriment of dragged-out unwellness that makes me see things in wrong dimensions.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry
Every environment conduces to the dismission of all worriment, to rest, sleep, and a happy-go-lucky state of mind.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
