Your excruciation will soften over the years into mere annoyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persistence of Memory] Reference

Twenty minims of tincture were given before the excruciation, and ten after.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

The next morning Master Gurloes ordered me to assist him in performing the excruciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

I woke up at 2:30am in excruciation pain and rushed to the ER to find out I have kidney stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Mother Struggles - Part 1] Reference

They never met the original's level of excruciation and descended like all american shows do into the cartoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sitting Down For Jay - TV Guidance, Uncategorized - Macleans.ca] Reference

Frey is, we are to understand, a man of sorrows, who has undergone excruciation if not crucifixion, and has been stigmatised by his bad press.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review] Reference

Mrs. Davis had returned with a daughter besieged by tears of frustration and excruciation, and promptly went to bed, advising her to do the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waking Up] Reference

After the excruciation at the centers of his palms and in the arches of his feet, after the blade between his ribs and the cracking of his clavicles, there was a period of darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference

Because I had wished to impress Dorcas, I had hoped to perform the excruciation we call two apricots; but he had fallen under the feet of the travelers and the heavy wheels of the carts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

He was absent, as I had hoped he would be, and among the papers on his table I found what I had, in some fashion I cannot explain, known would be there: an order for Thecla's excruciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

Soon I would begin the excruciation of this lanky child; it had been a long while -- perhaps before she was born -- since I had been the Journeyman Severian, and I would not relish the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

I was, in my late teens, excruciatingly self-conscious about being only five feet tall; plus, I drank a lot, which meant I could wear excruciatingly high heels without feeling the excruciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Got Pollys?] Reference

Nobody else was very good, and the excruciation was cut short when the 8-incher behind the Dollies started a sudden fire mission, the shells about as loud as Hiroshima, blasting every twenty seconds or so.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

In 2004, an ambitious plan to seed the clouds with blood and then rain excruciation down upon the thrice-damned didn't even make it past a Senate budget committee, which criticized the plan as poorly conceived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satire: Department Of Evil: 'All Of You Must Die'] Reference

Down, therefore, she went; but as she opened the parlour door, she heard Sir Sedley say to Mrs. Arlbery, who had just entered before her: 'O, fie! fie! you know she will be cruel to excruciation! you know me destined to despair to the last degree.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

Oh the excruciation of a sense of entitlement betrayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Peanut Products Rebound after Health Scare] Reference

The effect is a slowed-down reality that captures the tedium and excruciation of heartbreak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coach House Books] Reference

Of her originally sprang the inspired teaching of the doom of men to excruciation in endlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

It is possible the matter might have blown over without more excruciation if nothing else had happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Green Gables] Reference

Chinese water torture-are psychological rather than physical, causing excruciation of the mind rather than the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [CJR] Reference

Macedonians defended successfully their Greekness against Ottoman occupation and Slavic excruciation since the middle of 19th c.    From Wordnik.com.  [SofiaEcho RSS feed] Reference

I was on the point of exclaiming -- and the air of excruciation in my face would have denoted a moral face -- "Don't, Juliana; for HIS sake, don't!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aspern Papers] Reference

Twice he nearly fainted, but, in the end, he stood beside the somewhat huddled figure under the red willow, gasping under the excruciation of internal pains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forfeit] Reference

The result, enhanced by the nature of the song, which was extremely pathetic and dubiously moral, must have been excruciation to every good ear and every sensitive nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weighed and Wanting] Reference

Sir Sedley say to Mrs. Arlbery, who had just entered before her: 'O, fie! fie! you know she will be cruel to excruciation! you know me destined to despair to the last degree.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference

Even when some parts of the government became uncomfortable with these methods, other parts continued it, further refining the effectiveness -- that would be the excruciation -- of our techniques.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The best reason of all, the reason that affects me most finally, is that if we left the rest of the world alone we might have some time for attending to our own affairs, which are urgent to the point of excruciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarms and Discursions] Reference

She thought, in her innocence, that she was going to have an illness; but it had not struck her that her symptoms were aggravated by Miss Holland's presence and became intense to excruciation in those hours when she knew that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creators A Comedy] Reference

When a noble lady from the Autarch’s palace, the House Absolute, is sent to the guild for “excruciation”, Severian is tasked with looking after her.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Sun – Old SF? « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference

Once Teddy Ulysses Dunkel left the office — certain his excruciation was on the verge of extinction — the technician collected the papers and found Teddy’s folder in the drawer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persistence of Memory] Reference

Is there any way forward after this excruciation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture The World Sees] Reference

"a contest of nerve, a game that was as much exquisite excruciation as simple pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schilling, Boston Relievers] Reference