| The early methods of trial were compurgation or trial by ordeal or wager of law. |
| No doubt he is moved by the ordeal his own fellow countrymen are going through, but he never acts on emotion. |
| I thought given the circumstances it was best to keep you well anesthetized during your ordeal. |
| It is tempting to criticize the trial by ordeal, wager of law and judicial combat for their apparent irrationality and cruelty. |
| One would have no quarrel in taking into account the factor of saving the prosecutrix the ordeal of giving evidence. |
| He said the trek had been something of an ordeal over difficult terrain and there had been days of miserable weather with wind, rain and snow. |
