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racking
1. He coughs, in racking, phlegmy convulsions
2. Bent over with laughter, Alec leaned over the wall, unable to stop the torrent of chuckles racking his frame
3. bedroom, still racking his brain
4. Carius gripped the cloth, racking his brain for any meaning to the letters
5. Jack was racking his brain to remember something of what he had learned
6. The child is thin and pale, too, with a hard, racking
7. Great racking coughs followed this effort to communicate, then he resumed eating
8. shoulders slumped, racking his brain for a solution, he trudged
9. boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him
10. reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! 14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the
11. 5 But they highly incensed at his boldness of speech dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines and wrenching them from their sockets dismembered him
12. 13 O holy nature and parental feeling and reward of bringing up children and unconquerable maternal affection! 14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing
13. 25 For just as in a council-room beholding in her own soul vehement counsellors nature and parentage and love of her children and the racking of her children 26 she holding two votes one for the death the other for the preservation of her children 27 did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space
14. But best of all, the mind racking pain was now numbed by the ring’s magic
15. Beyond this was a storage area with racking for containers of chemicals and raw materials
16. He chuckled and whispered, “I just keep racking up those points, don’t I?” as he
17. though another sob was racking me
18. I haven’t shared my blood with anyone in over 300 years, it was very nerve racking knowing you were in some kind of pain and not being here to help you
19. 'Where are they?' It was a racking croak not even remotely resembling a human voice
20. "I've got plans this afternoon," I said, racking my brain for an excuse
21. Admittedly he’d gotten them all to Euston station by five minutes to six, but the journey had been nerve racking
22. It was an incredibly nerve racking
23. Both were really nerve racking,
24. that was racking your brains out a short while ago is a normal
25. Still, it was nerve racking
26. The racking was only three meters
27. before something quite nerve racking occurred
28. Terry was racking his brain to come up with a suitable answer to the strange story that he'd just been told
29. Eventually he, too, dozed off whilst racking his brains trying to remember who
30. They let out a dry racking cough, and I took a step in that direction
31. He looked to be disappointed with himself, slapping his pockets and racking at his forehead
32. racking my brains trying to remember where he
33. But there were many moments when with her guard low, it bubbled to the surface and manifested itself in throbbing headaches and a palpitating heart, shivering and silent racking sobs, her face buried in cloth to mute the acknowledged fear
34. Twenty shillings!" She chuckled so hard it turned into a racking cough
35. Keeping your domain name short, easy to remember, simple and relevant to your market helps your visitor to remember your website so they can come back to your site easily without racking their brain trying to remember where it is
36. Mars as private citizens had been racking their brain to figure out what kind of business they wanted to go into
37. Deep, racking pain
38. I was racking my mind, trying to remember where I was when I remembered that in the plane, Manuel had explained to the boss that we were in Tibet
39. ” He pushed harder on the gas, anxious to get home, racking his brain, trying to come up with some way to stop the tears
40. She sat down on a large rock, racking her brain at the options that she hadn’t considered
41. "Painters? No, I didn't see them," Raskolnikov answered slowly, as though ransacking his memory, while at the same instant he was racking every nerve, almost swooning with anxiety to conjecture as quickly as possible where the trap lay and not to overlook anything
42. She remained until evening racking her brain with every conceivable lying project, and had constantly before her eyes that imbecile with the game-bag
43. A move had to be made because that merry old soul, the grasswidower in question who appeared to be glued to the spot, didn't appear in any particular hurry to wend his way home to his dearly beloved Queenstown and it was highly likely some sponger's bawdyhouse of retired beauties where age was no bar off Sheriff street lower would be the best clue to that equivocal character's whereabouts for a few days to come, alternately racking their feelings (the mermaids') with sixchamber revolver anecdotes verging on the tropical calculated to freeze the marrow of anybody's bones and mauling their largesized charms betweenwhiles with rough and tumble gusto to the accompaniment of large potations of potheen and the usual blarney about himself for as to who he in reality was let x equal my right name and address, as Mr Algebra remarks passim
44. Merthin ate some bread automatically, frowning and looking upwards out of the corners of his eyes in the way he always did when he was racking his brains
45. it’s a lie, I know, but I said that I’d been racking my brains to think of anything significant, and that I thought it might be worth speaking to her therapist
46. The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death
47. The throng thickened; the guitars tinkled louder; other horsemen sat motionless, smoking calmly above the heads of the crowd; it eddied and pushed before the doors of the high-roofed building, whence issued a shuffle and thumping of feet in time to the dance music vibrating and shrieking with a racking rhythm, overhung by the tremendous, sustained, hollow roar of the gombo
48. He wanted to delay him to the very last moment; and he had been racking his brains to invent some place of concealment at once plausible and difficult of access
49. My tears have miraculously ceased, but I’m left with dry heaves racking my body
50. After racking my brain for what seemed like an eternity, I realized the answer was staring me in the face—Carl Sagan himself had written a similar scenario into his first and only science fiction novel, Contact
