To sympathize to the extent of acting is good; to harrow up the feelings when you cannot or will not act, is simply weakness.

I know very few of the instances; I would not harrow my soul with hearing of those I could not help.

Why should we harrow up our minds by dwelling on the deceit, the forcible fraud and treachery that have been so long practised on your hospitable and unsuspecting countrymen?

So, with mind both busy and absent, Kurt Dorn harrowed the fallow ground abandoned by his men; and when the day was done, with the sun setting hot and coppery beyond the dim, dark ranges, he guided the tired horses homeward and plodded back of them, weary and spent.

Well, I don't want to harrow your feelin's.

They were of the old sort, indoctrinated Presbyterians, and they harrowed well our barren field with the tooth of their hard creed.

Did he harrow up his hearers with a burst from "Othello" or a deep-sea groan from "Hamlet," and then create a revulsion of feeling by somersaulting over the centre-fire of the circle and standing on his head before it, grinning diabolically at the incensed pot?

that, on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin, And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win: This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin; And grant that we, for whom thou diddest die, Being with thy dear blood clean washed from sin, May live for ever in felicity!

Some farmers who cultivate small farms, as in Apulia, are wont to harrow their land after it is ridged, if perchance any large clods have been left in the seed bed.

And fend our princes every one, From foul mishap and trahison; But kings that harrow Christian men Shall England never bide again.

The sound was peculiaroriginalunearthlyand reminded me of the same music which had so harrowed my nerves at Bologne.

"You have discovered a secret which harrows up my very soula secret which I wished you to know, but could not exert resolution to reveal.

The tin spoons and steel knives and forks harrowed her aesthetic sense without impairing her ability to satisfy hunger.

But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my Prison-House; I could a Tale vnfold, whose lightest word Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part, [Sidenote: knotted]

Crimes of dye not so deep, are conjured up to harrow up the breast and rack the brain, and render the victim of a disapproving conscience a miserable wretch indeed.

Can we doubt for a moment that Shakspeare, who has given us the catastrophe of Othello, and the tempest scene in Lear, might also have adopted these additional circumstances of horror in the fate of the lovers, and have so treated them as to harrow up our very soulshad it been his object to do so?

Who art thou, that thy voice thus horribly Can harrow up my bosom's inmost depths!

The SOMETHING toneless, which Speaks awfully to men, Startling the poor and rich, For CONSCIENCE will talk then; These are the watch-words drear, The Voices of the Night, Which harrow the sick ear, The stricken heart affright!

And fend our princes every one, From foul mishap and trahison; But kings that harrow Christian men Shall England never bide again.