He seemed to be racking his doggish brain as to the best method of reaching her.
Yes, I agree with you--I've been racking my brains for Ernest, too.
He turned in anguish of heart toward the south, for there less racking remembrances hovered over the distant hills.
A racking anxiety respecting the fate of the other vessel, in which were the brave men of Bothwell, and his two dear friends, filled his mind with dreadful forebodings that they had not outlived the storm.
Well, I was racking my brains, but if the morrow didn't bring forth any more than my brains had so far, then somebody was in line for a scandalous surprise to-morrow morning.
I wished I had kept my bright idea to myself, instead of getting into this nerve-racking mess.
I had the keys to the doors of all the many compartments, each immured by the nerve-racking pressure of its industry and exposure to death.
The proximity of release, if only to change cells, is nerve-racking in the extreme.
And through the weeks and months of nerve-racking work and confinement in the tunnel, of constant dread of detection and anxiety over the result, my comrades had uttered no word of doubt or fear, in full reliance upon their invisible friend.
To watch in vigils of the night, The fever-tossed frame; To cool the dry, and parched lips, And ease the racking pain.
What racking fear, what painful grief Ensue a pleasant sin!
While theseracking thoughts glided rapidly through Glossin's mind, he observed one of the lights obscured, as by an opaque body placed at the window.
But at last I got what I wanted and here it is, so I am going to begin at once upon that racking cough.
He found the arm doing as well as could be expected, but the racking cough still continued the same.
From nausea and racking pains I had come to the stage of querulous self-pity.
They both ran with a slow swinging leap, like the racking gait, half pace, half gallop, of a well-trained troop horse.
Dulcie was shy and silent most of the time, her eyes were still red, she was still numb from her nerve-racking day before, still shamed by the fact that this queer little creature had given her her bed and slept in a chair beside her.
The separation of the furnaces from the combustion chamber, excepting through the opening afforded by a connecting tube, is an advantage in the same direction, and avoids almost entirely the racking strains due to irregular furnace action.
There is no use racking your brain; you will find out all you want quickly enough, and had best make up your mind to place yourself in my hands without reserve, for my sole desire is to be of service to you.
The process of elutriating; a decanting orracking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.
And this the Beaubien could do, and did, after months of soul-racking struggle.
A little more of this sort of racking suspicion, mixed with fear and rage, and I think I should have gone mad.
After immense efforts we brought him round, but in spite of the bracing cold and the rapid driving, we both suffered from racking headaches and extreme lassitude for the rest of the day.
The poor wife made the night hideous with a deep racking cough that led one to hope that she would not have to drag out a miserable existence at Tchaillee much longer.
Ruth, who had conquered her desire to flee to the cabin, and hide her eyes and ears from such nerve-racking sights and sounds.
The girl lay quiet and wide awake until almost morning, racking her brains for some way of warning Bud.
Bitterly condemning himself for having said something out of the way, and racking his brains in vain to think what it was, he made his way to the corral in a disturbed frame of mind.
But when Cash began to cough with that hoarse, racking sound that tells the tale of laboring lungs, Bud began to feel guiltily that he ought to do something about it.
