With this miserable exception: ever and anon the victim's jammed body shuddered so terribly it shook and rattled the iron bedstead, and told of the storm within, the agony of the racked and all foreboding soul.
Thus Alfred, alarmed by the hatred of Mrs. Archbold, and racked with jealousy, exerted all his intelligence and played many cards for liberty.
For on a charge of his holding communication with Menalcidas[259] and favouring the Roman cause, he caused Philinus and his sons to be flogged and rackedin each other’s sight, and did not desist until the boys and Philinus were all dead.
I could have echoed it, when I would rather have parted with her, dearly as I loved her, than have seen her so racked with agony; but it was not to be.
Burning with fever, and rackedby pain, she could find no ease or rest.
Did she know herself to whom she was clinging, or why she had such a wild hunger in her sorrow-racked body?
She studied the racked body and disordered head with a tightening of her heart.
Who can tell what comfort was brought by the sound of a woman's gentle voice, the touch of a woman's gentle hand, to many a poor fellow racked by fever, or smarting from sores?
That spiritracked or blighted by sin, my child, it is thy Father's spirit.
He rackedandracked his brains, but his memory failed him.
And I amracked with neuralgia," chimed in Miss Bates.
Two o'clock in the morning is a particularly cheery time when you are racked with pain!
It was plain that the over-Sunday anti-Scheftels newspaper publicity had racked Ely Central stockholders and created a panicky movement to liquidate, which was about to find vent in violent explosion.
As long as he could hold a brush, Bastien-Lepage continued to work, in spite of the sufferings whichracked him.
It would be impossible to render more forcibly the blissfulness of rest when the body has been racked by the exhausting labour of the soil.
To-day I have racked their limbs; but I have yet to strike them to the heart, as they have stricken me!
The fiend gout racked his big toes, stabbing, burning, and nipping them.
He foamed at the mouth, with low moans, and, before Alexander could prevent him, racked with pain and seeking for some support, he had set his teeth in the arm of the seat off which he was slipping.
He rose up now--lean, sallow almost to greenness, with black hair falling into his eyes, and a cough that racked him at every other sentence.
Looking down at her in her racked misery, his resentment vanished and an odd impersonal kind of pity for her possessed him instead, though her attraction was gone forever.
It was meat to his soul to see this lordly young aristocrat racked with misery and dread, to hold him in his power as a cat holds a mouse, which it can crush and crunch at any moment if it will.
I lay racked with cruel torture, bitterly regretting my promise to George, listening to those moans till I was nearly wild.
As the first rays of the sun crossed the mountains and shone down upon the valley, I said to myself, even while my heart was racked with anxious foreboding--"How wonderful!
For days he racked his brains, unable to please himself.
Sixty minutes seemed to go to that second, so racked was I with curiosity.
My wits are racked to comprehend thy choice, but I must have lost them altogether if thou succeed.
What was death--what were the horrors of the vault--what was anything I had suffered to the anguish that rackedme now?
The slender fabric of the aeroplane shook tremulously as the pulsations of the mighty engine racked its frame.
That fearful climb had racked both nerve and muscle; but even more than his fatigue did Jack feel the cruel pangs of a burning thirst.
Stoneheart racked his brains in vain endeavours to discover a motive for the Tigercat's conduct.
He rolled himself in his zarape, stretched out his feet towards the fire, and was soon asleep, in spite of the trouble that racked his mind.
They racked their memories for any recent transgression of sufficient importance, but could not recall any.
Una racked her small brains for some way of averting it, but it was Nan Blythe who came to the rescue with a somewhat startling suggestion.
Whilst I racked my brains for some scheme, the little animal took the matter out of my hands.
I wondered how Nayland Smith would have conducted such an inquiry, and I racked my brains for some means of penetrating into the recesses of the establishment.
He racked his brain to remember the size and shape of the room.
He racked his aching brain for the answer, but all that came was a vague memory of bodies falling upon him and of striking out at them.
Anxiety would have racked them throughout these long and interminable days; and I, who would prefer death a thousand times to complete solitude, was deprived of their affectionate news so essential to my well-being.
We are already installed, rifles racked along the sides of the barn, when the battalion adjutant thrusts his face and pipe around our door.
