Rarely, indeed, did our acknowledged politicians or essayists seek its columns for the promulgation of their ideas, and its editorial displays were generally tormentingly feeble. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
But for those of us who are not pacifists yet wish to live by humane values, there is all the greater need for moral self-scrutiny and criticism, even — especially — when these become tormentingly entangled with political expediencies. From Wordnik.com. [Vietnam] Reference
"What a good guesser you are!" she cried tormentingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference
"What a really good man you are!" she said tormentingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
Yet it was not she who tugged tormentingly at his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Married Life The True Romance] Reference
"I do not ask you to wait, Mr. Rumway," said Mr.. Smiley, tormentingly. From Wordnik.com. [The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems] Reference
His sense of our national deficiencies became tormentingly, fantastically acute. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Britling Sees It Through] Reference
But all the more tormentingly I felt my impotence to bring about an effectual reform. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Dreams] Reference
And the result of it all was that he fell day by day more tormentingly in love with her. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Merton, Colonist] Reference
One hand oddly raised to her throat becomes as tormentingly enigmatic as Mona Lisa's smile. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
As she took down her heavy braids, the story of Cherry Malotte returned to her tormentingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Spoilers] Reference
"You know," persisted the prisoner, tormentingly, "there's a law against paying wages in scrip.". From Wordnik.com. [King Coal : a Novel] Reference
Mrs. Skelmersdale behaved beautifully and this made everything tormentingly touching and difficult. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Magnificent] Reference
He raised his eyes and stared past his anxious host, far into some invisible plane of tormentingly elusive dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacrificial Altar] Reference
In the morning she arose white-faced and weary, with dark shadows under her eyes, and a head that throbbed tormentingly. From Wordnik.com. [Greatheart] Reference
At last, in a deep hole, he succeeded in breaking the ice, and by putting one's arm far down one could scoop up a little water in one's hand, but it was tormentingly insufficient. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
I must admit she proved a clever pupil, for she used her knowledge well whenever an opportunity presented, to the confusion of many whose private weaknesses she most tormentingly exposed. From Wordnik.com. [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference
In moments incredibly few, but to Van Landing tormentingly long, she was back again, and close to her heart she was hugging a tiny package with one hand, while the other was laid on her father's arm. From Wordnik.com. [How It Happened] Reference
In spite of the efforts of Major Kitchener, the officer in command of the Egyptian Intelligence service, hardly any messengers ever reached Khartoum; and when they did, the information they brought was tormentingly scanty. From Wordnik.com. [The End of General Gordon: Paras. 67-99] Reference
But he tried to smile at Mrs. Wallace as he touched her hand; he hardly dared look at her again, knowing from old experience how every incident and every detail of her person would rise tormentingly before his recollection. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero] Reference
One proposed to burn them, another to flay them alive, and a third to starve them to death, and many other modes of slowly and tormentingly extinguishing life were named; but that which was finally adopted was, of all others, the most horrible. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave,] Reference
My abiding faith in the possibility of self-transformation propelled me from one therapist to the next, ever on the lookout for something that seemed tormentingly out of reach, some scenario that would allow me to live more comfortably in my own skin. From Wordnik.com. [Integral Options Cafe] Reference
"So you've been busy," he resumed tormentingly, "but not with cooking lessons!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Star] Reference
And then, without waiting for her to answer, he added tormentingly, "Shall I show you?. From Wordnik.com. [So Close and No Closer]
His tongue touched her lips, caressing them softly, his lips moving tormentingly against hers as he muttered, "I want you. From Wordnik.com. [So Close and No Closer]
At last, in a deep hole, he succeeded in breaking the ice, and by putting one’s arm far down one could scoop up a little water in one’s hand, but it was tormentingly insufficient. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
"Yes," I said, "I think that possibly one day you will find that you have become exquisitely beautiful and desirable, and that your least movement, that of even a wrist or hand, or smallest expression, will be tormentingly attractive to a man. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
Her body quickened tormentingly. From Wordnik.com. [So Close and No Closer]
One memory clung tormentingly to the searcher. From Wordnik.com. [Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3)] Reference
Enough that I was, as seemed to me, in complete possession of it, that I had been so for a long time, that this had made it familiar and yet had not blurred its charm, and that, all urgently, all tormentingly, I saw it in motion and, so to speak, in transit. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
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