Tormenting

Examples

• The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is so tormenting, so racking, and it burns away our strength with its flame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The art of being cruel, kind, merry, sad, delightful, yet tormenting. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His lordship's extreme gentleness of disposition appeared very attractive when set in contrast with Meyler's tormenting, dogged humour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have had her before me all this time, finding no pleasure in anything but keeping me as miserable, suspicious, and tormenting as herself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The pain inflicted by this disappointment was tormenting and keen. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• While I was defending my mask Fanny passed me, followed by Meyler, who was still tormenting her to tell him under what disguise he must look for me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I believe that, for you possess all the art of a woman in tormenting a man. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Oh, I wish he would cease tormenting me with letters for money? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• That Dutch bottle, scoundrel, contained the latest will of the many wills made by my unhappy self-tormenting father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her. Jane Austen. Emma.

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