"Excruciating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... An excruciating pain shot through me. I set my teeth to keep from screaming and closed my eyes to hide the anguish ...
— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine
... "repayther" on her stomach, which she used to ring on all occasions, narrating how it had been presented to her by her fawther, as she stipt into the car'ge after her mar'ge; and these ornaments, with other outward peculiarities of the Major's wife, gave excruciating agonies to Captain Osborne, when his wife and the Major's came in contact; whereas Amelia was only amused by the honest lady's eccentricities, and not in the ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... home to dinner. She had loitered about, hoping to engage the eye of Jabez, who was now the most important widower in town. Luella had elected him for her next; but he was away, and she whetted her wits on Eddie. She walked at his side, excruciating him with her glib memories of old times and the mad devotion he had cherished ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes
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— The Economist - Volume 1, No. 3 • Various
... unless it be that I might be slowly and painfully consumed by it? All greatness is in the actor, not in the act. He whom God has blessed with an end in life, can earnestly labor to accomplish that end. But alas for that poor mortal whose existence only serves to fill up space in the world! How excruciating to him to be ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott
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