That particular week was a preparation for a severe five-year trial.

This was the severest trial I had ever felt.

It must be a severe trial to them all.

This winter of 1839 was one of severe trial to me.

But an unforeseen phenomenon came in to subject the public impatience to a severe trial.

Congolese democracy experienced severe trials in 1993 and early 1994.

The market's cautious optimism, in the face of such severe trials, still has a chance of being right.

Soon she was cast into severe interior trials and temptations.

To ride along a stone road on a dark, rainy night is a most severe trial of nerve and temper.

Alas, absence is a severe trial to a loving heart.