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.

It was a night of wind with a flying cloud-wrack overhead whence peeped the pallid moon betimes; a night of gloom and mystery.

V. be poor &c adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny &c (money) 800, not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue [Fr.]; run into debt &c (debt) 806. render poor &c adj.; impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty; pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.

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

Oh that grand maister Of mechall[90] lusts, that bulke of brothelree, That stillary of all infectious sinnes, Hath scapt the wrack, and with his fellowe guest And partner in corruption makes this waye, And with no tarde pace.

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.

Why, should I wrack myself with the story when you do not even believe the reason upon which it is based?

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.

'But how had all his fortune felt a wrack, Had that false servant sped in safety back? This night his treasured heaps he meant to steal, And what a fund of charity would fail!

Overhead still raced the scud and wrack, shaped like hurrying monsters; but below the earth was quiet.

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.

Two ancient fishers once lay side by side On piled-up sea-wrack in their wattled hut, Its leafy wall their curtain.

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.

I heard the loud hum of its engine, and watched how its white wings were made diaphanous by the glint of sun until it passed away into the cloud wrack.

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.

Rolling toward them was a spreading wall of heavy clouds traveling at seemingly great speed, while below the wrack the water darkened ominously and became flecked with "white horses.

It grew almost dark, so overcast was the sky, and under the somber, driving cloud wrack the white wave crests gleamed like savage teeth.

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!