But the torturing paradox of the thing was that this was just the place and just the night for a man to be haunted.
I don't believe this--this thing that's beentorturing you.
I cannot reproach thee for thy torturing me thus by piercing me with thy arrowy words.
And they were smitten with torturing grief and they caught hold of Jantu by his right hand, and wept in a piteous way.
The author of the Opium-Eater suffered so cruelly from some internal agony that he grew at last to fancy there was indeed some living creature inside him, for ever torturing and tormenting him.
She felt like a prisoner, to whom the bitterness of death was past, exposed to the torturing suspense of a long reprieve.
Dear Roy, I am trying to be patient, but do you know, you are torturing me with this suspense.
It was not until the afternoon that, by one tortuous and torturing line of reasoning after another, he came to know that, as her uncle had said, for the present he could do nothing.
Tell him I have the fever, and you will be telling him no lie, for I am ill of this little priest who is torturing my brain.
This demon by me questioned, reasoned with me in such a manner that at the second interrogatory I was firmly persuaded I should be committing a crime in fining and torturing a poor little creature who cried like an innocent child.
To Groot Willem this slow process was torturing in the extreme.
Some black has amused himself by torturing a creature he was unable to kill.
It was an oppressive and torturing thing, like the tree that had fallen on him over in the Jackfish country, and he felt himself slipping off into darkness.
He knew that in the final moments of his life Kedsty had suffered a slow and torturing agony.
A thousand torturing thoughts whipped through his brain, and with every stride he expected to hear the yammer and chatter of many machine guns blazing away at him.
He groaned aloud at the torturing thoughts and wished with all his heart and soul that he had waited and watched Freddy jump first.
During those long torturing hours Dave had spoken with a few of the other imprisoned refugees.
With what aching, torturing anxiety I burned to know what had happened, and with which side rested the victory!
She could not endure this torturing suspense another instant.
Then, with a rush as torturing as the return of blood to benumbed limbs, emotions crowded in upon him.
I do not like the ligature; it is long and torturing in its action; but here there will be no chance, for the vessels are too numerous and large to admit of the speedier process being resorted to.
He paid twopence for bread, and putting the other twopence in his pocket was returning home, when he met the village boys who were this time torturing a mouse.
One day he saw that the village boys were torturing a kitten and taking pleasure in its cries.
As it was, he too slept little, in part kept awake by the pain of his wounds, and partly by torturing thoughts.
Here was Joan, knowing nothing about anything except that her lover had had a tumble, had given her a few weeks of torturing anxiety, but was now blessedly up and about again and in her pocket all day long.
He thought of her only as a being for whose sake he would gladly die the most torturingdeath that human ingenuity could devise, if by this means, he could rescue her unscathed from the fire he had kindled around her.
There would then have been no bad black-haired Edith lying in your lap, and torturing you with fears that she does not love you as she ought.
She detected his agitation, and as a kitten plays with a captured mouse, torturing it almost to madness, so she played with him ere suffering him to reach the point.
For himself, the idea of torturing a prisoner was unthinkable, and he did not believe Black Hawk would allow it.
Is this how you show your strength and courage, by torturing a helpless woman?
She wished Owl Carver would come back from visiting the other camps to put a stop to White Bear's torturing her like this.
Would it not have been kinder to see her when this torturing revelation was to be made--or did he understand her too well?
But no quick involuntary horror, no reasoning, could hide the truth which forced itself on her--that the thought that he should love this woman was even more torturing than the knowledge that she was his wife.
Not satisfied with torturing the person of the accused, their ingenious malice assailed the more delicate feelings, and ardent affections of the mind.
You have been entirely conscientious intorturing Kathie, but you have been torturing her.
A restless torturing remembrance seemed to have taken possession of her, which all the efforts of the earnest clergyman were utterly ineffectual to remove.
No, but the torture of a dog against the prolonged life of a being capable of torturing him.
He had a new god, a new heaven and forty different and distinct ways of torturing one's self while worshiping his deity.
Mortifying the flesh through fasting and self-denial, torturing one's self by standing with the hands above the head, etc.
We do not call the offering of human sacrifices, the torturing of captives, cannibalism--humanity.
What satisfaction can there be in the torturing of a withered stump which is dumb to all outrage?
It was his mauled and bruised shape, his half-bestial face that they were torturing and tormenting.
