Blind or dubious conditions racked his soul, but real danger found him not only prepared, but even eager.

"Are you on your way up the river?" "NoI" (was the man not going to let them rest their wicked bones there a single night?)"aI" The frozen river and the wind-racked wood were as hospitable as the beautiful face of the brother.

Thy kindness and the pain given to an old frame, that hath been long racked by hardship and poverty, are both thrown away on the rocky hearts of the nobles.

And now the pangs of hunger and thirst racked him; but he refused the coarse bread that his attendants offered, only taking a draught of warm water.

But my fellow-traveller and I were now full of the old Highland spirit, and were dissatisfied at hearing of racked rents and emigration, and finding a chief not surrounded by his clan.

Ah! with what awe, what infantile impatience, We eyed the artifice when issued out, And racked our brains about the Regulations, And tried to think we had them free from doubt!

The dramatists racked their inventive powers to introduce surprises to interest the audience.

He racked his mind in vain.

Four of the boxes rested crosswise upon the flat wagon-bed and the other three were racked lengthwise on top of them.

Perhaps, had pain-racked, dying Bianca imagined the splendid destiny of the attractive young Princess Maria, she might have gathered no little solace.

Her mind is racked by an alternation of hope and despair.

In the meanwhile she was awfully busy; there were callers driving up to the door at that very moment, and her brain was racked by the apprehension that she might not get her new gown in time for the Bachelor's Ball, which was to be quite one of the nicest things of the year, so dearest grandmother must excuse a hurried letter, etc., etc., etc.

A mournful half-light fell through a little stained-glass vestibule into a hat-racked hall, on the walls of which hung several pictures of those great steamships known as "Atlantic liners" in big gilt framespictures of a significance presently to be noted.

Ralph was fond of stooping down to let the boy climb up his outstretched arms to his shoulders, but to-day, as he did so, Paul's hug seemed to crush him in a vice, and the shout of welcome that accompanied it racked his ears like an explosion of steam-whistles.

It shocked him so much that, rather than admit its truth, he racked his brains in desperation to find arguments to controvert the blasphemy.

Temperance alone can bring peace of mind; and the wicked, even if they escape public censure, 'are racked night and day by the anxieties sent upon them by the immortal gods'.

I suppose that some aged Moslem chieftain sat one day at the opening of his tent and, brooding with black brows and cursing in his black beard over wine as the symbol of Christianity, racked his brains for some word ugly enough to express his racial and religious antipathy, and suddenly spat out the horrible word "alcohol."

As the first rays of the sun crossed the mountains and shone down upon the valley, I said to myself, even while my heart was racked with anxious foreboding"How wonderful!

Nobby was tried in snowshoes this morning, and came along splendidly on them for about four miles, then the wretched affairs racked and had to be taken off.

In vain I racked my brain to guess what could have taken place between them.

In the loss of riches or health he sees only a withdrawal of favors that he had formerly abused: in the humiliations which happen to him, only the pains of his guilt: in the agonies with which he is racked, only the commencement of those punishments he has justly merited.

He often sored his knuckles on the court table and racked his frame with the violence of his rhetoric.

On it stood Karl Wander, not as she had seen him last, impatient, racked with mental pain, and torn with pride and eager love.

Tensely she watched, in a suspense that racked her whole body.

The Emperor himself, broken in health and racked by pain, confessed that his action of July 5th had been a mistake; he apologised to Goltz for his proclamation; he asked only that Prussia should be moderate in her demands; the one thing was that the unity of Germany should be avoided, if only in appearance.

But how the fires leaped uphow ambition beat within ushow our attic theatre was wrought to perfectionhow the play came off and wracked the neighborhood of its pinswith what grace I myself acted Aladdinthese things must be written by a vain and braggart pen.

Souls who are bound to the countries of the past, shake off the neurasthenic torpor, wracked by outbursts of frenzy, which weighs you down.

Rather he watched intently the lower gulch with its flood-wracked, water-twisted skeleton laid bare.

From off the sea, the pilgrims came, With sea-toil wracked and worn; The air blew keen, and the frost was sheen, Upon that wintry morn.

Thus, when we were wracked in the Dawn, Neb, it was by God's will, and with a design, like, to bring us three all on to our present fortin, and present frame of mind; should I ever use the word luck, ag'in, which I may be likely enough to do from habit, you are all to understand I mean what I call Providential luck.

Just one curious deep sob wracked her whole body.

Except for the crackle of the fire and the beat of the rain, there was no sound in the cave but this,those anguished sobs from her wracked lungs.

But there was no answer, in the swirling depths, to the question that wracked his heart: whether or not in these spruce-clad hills his daughter still lived.

He turned, wracked with pain, on his side and lifted his left arm.

And King Amfortas, soul and body wracked, Did crave in desperation only death, And so refused to show the Holy Grail.

There is something in us, even divine pride of manhood, a dogged disregard of death, though it comes from an unseen enemy out of a smoke-wracked sky, like the thunderbolts of the gods, which makes us go back, though we know the terror of it.

Don't roll your eyes soI don't mean dat we's going to be wracked.

Accurate and murderous they seem when you drop low behind a trench wall or huddle in a dug-out as you hear an approaching scream and the earth trembles and the air is wracked by a concussion, and the cry of a man a few yards away tells of a hit.

Instead, everybody lost as the entire social structure was wrenched, dislocated, wracked and down-graded.

My heart is wracked with fear Lest you should meet your faery kin, And, laughing, leave me here!