"Excruciate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... experimentally just. The feeling of languor[566], which succeeds the animation of gaiety, is itself a very severe pain; and when the mind is then vacant, a thousand disappointments and vexations rush in and excruciate. Will not many even of my fairest readers ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... I pass not [16] for his threats! The plot is laid by Persian noblemen And captains of the Median garrisons To crown me emperor of Asia: But this it is that doth excruciate The very substance of my vexed soul, To see our neighbours, that were wont to quake And tremble at the Persian monarch's name, Now sit and laugh our regiment [17] to scorn; And that which might resolve [18] me ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part I. • Christopher Marlowe
... slander dumbe, Your vertue then had perish'd, neuer priz'd, For that the same you had not exercised; And you had lost the Crowne you haue, and glory, Nor had you beene the subiect of my Story. Whilst they feele Hell, being damned in their hate, Their thoughts like Deuils them excruciate, Which by your noble suffrings doe torment Them with new paines, and giues you this content 60 To see your soule an Innocent, hath suffred, And vp to heauen before your eyes be offred: Your like we in a burning Glasse may see, When the Sunnes ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton
... and needles. give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate^, excruciate^; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog &c (punish) 972; grate on the ear &c (harsh sound) 410. Adj. in pain &c n., in a state of pain; pained &c v.; gouty, podagric^, torminous^. painful; aching &c v.; sore, raw. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... Countess, stopping her ears like a child. 'Do not excruciate me so. You laugh! My goodness! ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith |
