Meanings of terrible plight in English

They were too busy clucking in sympathy over poor Ian's terrible plight.

She was in a terrible plight-thewoman had even kept back her month's salary.

This outburst from their usually kind leader placed the earnest but awkward gentlemen in a terrible plight.

The Arabs were in a terrible plight.

Evidently he was in a terrible plight.

This seemed a terrible plight for the maiden, and I knew not what to say or do.

Sir, - The terrible plight of people of Monsterrat under their lethal volcano must touch us all.

The Englishman was horror-stricken as the full realization of his terrible plight forced itself upon his tired brain.

It was, indeed, a terrible plight.

But, thank God, I kept my sanity, and even in that terrible plight Hope again crept into my heart.

But notwithstanding that, my heart now bleeds for him in his terrible plight, and I want to do something for him.

Strangely enough, The Kid's thoughts were not of his own terrible plight, but of the peril that awaited the wagon train.

And the more he likes him, the more he sympathizes with his terrible plight, the more he wishes to help the man.

On the other side of the lake Dick and Tom were working with feverish energy, almost beside themselves with fear at their comrade's terrible plight.

It meant that he would protect her, would rescue her from her terrible plight, would take her from among these savages to her home again-oh

"I will get into the house by the stable-yard, for they must not see me in this terrible plight."