Harrowing

Examples

• It's perfectly wonderful, Birkin harrowing Hell--harrowing the Pompadour--HIC! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One day, it was the ninth of September, seemed devoted to every disaster, to every harrowing incident. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And the woman, with her serious, conscience-harrowing question tortured him on the quick. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I warn my kyind friends, then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated--but, as I trust, intensely interesting--crime. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Let us draw the curtain over this harrowing scene. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No wonder that the attendant should interpret as phrensy the harrowing maledictions of the grief-struck old man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Other thoughts followed, on which it was less harrowing to dwell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Then----but it is of no use dwelling at length on the harrowing details. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The instantaneous and dastardly destruction of our battleship, The Maine, with 250 of her crew, in Havana harbor, February 15, 1898, by one of these agencies, is a harrowing illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A harrowing old man, Mis'ess Yeobright, said Christian despondingly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He looked like a man who had passions, secrets, and private harrowing griefs and adventures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They sound romantic, perhaps, in books; in real life they are harrowing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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