Racked

Examples

• Some fearful hours went over me: indescribably was I torn, racked and oppressed in mind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• At the foot of the bed, half sitting, half kneeling, his face buried in the clothes, was a young man, whose frame was racked by his sobs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Pasteur was racked with fears alternating w ith hopes, his anxiety growing more intense as the virulence of the inoculations increased. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was all over before I arrived; so my curiosity was not so dreadfully racked as _yours_ seems to have been. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• My own heart was racked by regrets and remorse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr Fledgeby meant him to be racked. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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