That hurried conference to explore this development must've been a sore trial to the old Gowachin.

But it is a sore trial to sit through.

We must have been a sore trial to you and we're eternally grateful.

Any one of the Hutchins children would be a sore trial.

But a sore trial shall come upon the mighty.

What a sore trial she'd been to him from the beginning.

It is men's duty towards those whom they love, in such times of sore trial!

Having a granddaughter with the power had been a sore trial to the bishop of Nariade.

It is a sore trial for a hobbit, that.

It was a sore trial for such a man: a warrior, and a lord of men.