But wretched he who chooses the sixth, whose hair falls from his head, whose skin peels from his body, and who lingers long in excruciating agonies, a living death.

As I stood there a woman's shrill scream of excruciating pain reached me, notwithstanding those cyclopean walls.

He held my throat, causing me excruciating pain, and each moment I felt my chance of victory grow smaller.

" The captain found these facts to be excruciating.

In the twelfth year of his age, a stubborn, painful, and malignant ulcer, broke out upon his left thigh; which, for near five years, defeated all the art of the surgeons and physicians, and not only afflicted him with most excruciating pains, but exposed him to such sharp and tormenting applications, that the disease and remedies were equally insufferable.

He died of a loathsome and excruciating disease, in his seventieth year, having reigned nearly forty years.

to a death, infinitely more excruciating than that from which you so kindly saved them?

The wretched African is often so deeply pierced by the excruciating fangs of hunger, as almost to be driven to despair.

A pang, momentary but excruciating, smote her.

Happy to the point of delicious pain, she yet yearned forward to a happiness far more excruciating.

More perfect patience than Hayley manifested under his excruciating tortures, it never was my lot to witness.

The pain was so excruciating that he released his victim at once, and Miss Nugent, emitting a series of terrified yelps, dashed off in the direction of home, her hair bobbing up and down on her shoulders, and her small black legs in an ecstasy of motion.

Before they left the table they were all three in that excruciating state of rawness of the nerves, in which a man has the sensation that his brain is a violent explosive which a single jarring sound or word must ignite and blow to atoms, like a bomb-shell.

and Prometheus both suffered excruciating tortures and death for the good of men.

Muley Yezid was carried to the castle, and his wound dressed; but his treatment was so improper, that, after lingering a few days in the most excruciating torture, he died in 1794.

Amidst so many aspects of death, and the apprehension even of approaching judgment, the suspicion that friends were yet alive under the ruins was the most excruciating affliction, since the impossibility of assisting them rendered their death(miserable and terrible consolation)a matter of preference and of hope.

In further illustration of our position, it may be well here to notice one mistaken source of the Sublime, which seems to have been sometimes resorted to, both in poems and pictures; namely, in the sympathy excited by excruciating bodily suffering.

A countryman was seized with the most excruciating pain in his stomach, and which continued for so long a period, that his case became desperate, and his life was even despaired of.

Our progress was attended with the most excruciating pain I ever endured, with feet cut to the bones by the rocks, and back blistered by the sunexhausted with fatigueup to the waistsometimes to the neck in the water, and frequently obliged to swim.

Then she was subjected to the most excruciating torture; but, though every limb was dislocated, the noble girl remained true to her friends and to her God.

Then opened in Rome the awful carnival of bloodshed that the orator never mentions, in which horrible modes of torture and excruciating methods of producing pain vied with each other in satisfying the demands of death.

The defiance of his look made Mr. Gordon angry, and he inflicted in succession five hard cuts on either hand, each one of which, was more excruciating than the last.

The pain was intense; when she tried to move, it was excruciating.

As he touched him, the Puritan uttered a fearful cry, and attempted to spring forward, as if to grasp some vanishing object, but being checked in the effort by the chain, he fell heavily to the ground, and seemed to sustain severe injury; for when the man raised him, and set him against the pillar, though he made no complaint, it was evident he suffered excruciating pain.

The pain in my face became excruciating, and I began to think yachting rather serious business.