This was the stage where the combined physical and mental effects became too much for most people, but if Murphy was scared or panicky or suffering from bodily distress, he hid it well.

"He's alive, and apparently conscious, but he seems--almost paralyzed, but without the usual bodily distress of paralysis."

Leda wondered if the man ever admitted that he felt any sort of bodily distress at all.

One night in particular my bodily distress was great; my feet grew cold, and the cold increased up my legs towards my body; at that time I had no inclination to ask my nurse to apply anything warm to my feet, expecting my end was near.

Some people collect restaurant menus on their travels; others keep Kaopectate bottles labeled in French, in German, in Spanish, in Hindi: a record of successive and sudden onslaughts of bodily distress.

I firmly believed that no incident ever occurring in the course of human events is more adapted to inspire the supremeness of mental and bodily distress than a case like our own, of living inhumation.

Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.

At last he said, blinking as if in bodily distress: "Well, if that is so, sir, you need do no more than take the testamentary paper you spoke of and go.