Sir, as I have already remarked, we have passed through a fiery ordeal.

Nay, did she not even undergo the fiery ordeal of truth?

There was no wavering or shrinking from the fiery ordeal.

And how long can friendship endure this fiery ordeal?

William Barton was too sensitively organized to pass through his present fiery ordeal without terrible suffering.

At all events, the stag went right through his fiery ordeal, and was lost to us.

That which he communicated, accordingly, had to pass through the fiery ordeal of the Irishman's brains.

Thou hast for this come out unscathed from the fiery ordeal I had prepared for thee.

Sita passes the fiery ordeal in triumph.

Already in 1826 Heeren said that these books had "stood the fiery ordeal of criticism."

Both priest and penitent are required and compelled to go through the fiery ordeal of contamination and shame.

No public character probably could pass unscathed through the fiery ordeal to which he has thus subjected himself.

Meantime one must not put a mortal husband to the fiery ordeal of his wife's deserts, they agreed likewise.

I must pass through a fiery ordeal; I must be cast out and despised by those whom I have served.

But here she was, after the fiery ordeal of an interview with her offended grandmother, not in the least crestfallen.

It is for this stage that this vast, this fiery ordeal which humanity is experiencing is mysteriously paving the way.