Oh, these evasive and tangled and torturesome thoughts!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

The gladsome youth's motive had been free from any torturesome purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

The vocal and instrumental chaos was frequently punctured by revolver reports, as the torturesome Caruso outside roared.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

If anything, it seemed that Hicks strove to fight off thoughts of the end of his golden campus years, using as weapons his torturesome saengerfests, his Beefsteak.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

The morrow dawned after an all but sleepless night, harrowed by the most torturesome dreams in regard to Roberta, men who arrived to arrest him, and the hike, until at last he arose, his nerves and eyes aching.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

They invaded the graceless youth's room, much to the pretended alarm of that torturesome collegian, who believed that the entire student-body of old Bannister had foregathered to wreak vengeance on his devoted head.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

It would seem only a trifle for the heedless Hicks to give up his mystery, and tell Bannister all about Thor; yet, had the Hercules reconsidered, and played football, the torturesome youth would have bewildered his colleagues as long as possible, or until they made him divulge the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

The experience which threatened him was altogether a new one; he was in a condition of suspense that was simply torturesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Book of Tales] Reference

History under this new teacher had become something more than a dog-eared text-book; geography more than stained and torn wall-maps; reading more than a torturesome process of making sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia of Elk Creek Valley] Reference

There are no words capable of expressing how torturesome this affliction is; to my physical suffering there was added a distinct mental disquietude arising from a sense of injustice that nature, supposed to be so benignant to her friends, should have punished me so grievously for having sought to cultivate and foster her arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice] Reference

I realize to any other person this might seem like an absolutely dreadful if not torturesome assignment - to wander around a storage yard of worthless concrete barriers and photograph them all day with genuine interest in the nuanced intricacies of their damage, sifting for information in their erosion, looking for a story or a bit of poetry in a single spike that had been pounded into it for some mysterious purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subtopia] Reference

Why? why? "and great spasms of torturesome pain drew her beautiful face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

A man — that to live with her could only prove torturesome — what would you have that person do?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

And then, on Thursday night, following a most torturesome mental day on his and Roberta’s part for that matter, this is what he received.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

Here it was once more to startle him out of his soul flight into a realization of the real or unreal immediate problem with all of its torturesome angles that lay before him.).    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

There’s no point if you’re doing something back at the end of the day it’s a routine which you felt it’s torturesome, tiredsome, and you’re feeling any satisfication from it isn’t it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 June « oneduasan] Reference

York, where in the “death house” or “Murderers’ Row,” as it was called — as gloomy and torturesome an inferno as one could imagine any human compelled to endure — a combination of some twenty - two cells on two separate levels — he was to be restrained until ordered retried or executed.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

Assuming a striking pose, à la troubadour, at the open window, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., a somewhat paradoxical figure, his splinter-structure enshrouded in the gown, the cap on his classic head, this regalia symbolic of dignity, and the torturesome banjo in his grasp, twanged a ragtime accompaniment, and to the bewilderment of the old Grads on the campus, as well as the wrath of 1919, he roared in his fog-horn voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference