harrowing
Definition: agonizing, distressing
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Many Inventions - By Rudyard Kipling
...Let the hind that tills you feel my mirth At the early harrowing . ' '...
The Mucker - By Edgar Rice Burroughs
...Rightly, he assumed that she would appreciate thoughtful deference to her comfort and safety under the harrowing conditions of her present existence more than a forced companionship that might entail too open devotion on his part ....
Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...These occasions are becoming harrowing times for us all, for each sunrise and sunset opens up some new danger--some new pain, which, however, may in God 's will be means to a good end ....
The Return of the Native - By Thomas Hardy, John William Cunliffe
...`` A harrowing old man, Mis ` ess Yeobright, " said Christian despondingly ....
Kidnapped - By Robert Louis Stevenson
...in their bunks; and these, seeing the water pour in and thinking the ship had foundered, began to cry out aloud, and that with such harrowing cries that all who were on deck tumbled one after another into the skiff and fell to their oars ....
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace, Joseph Autier
...An expression of pain knit the dark face of the monareh, as if his mind were swept by a harrowing recollection . "...
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...Then but it is of no use dwelling at length on harrowing details ....
At the Back of the North Wind - By George MacDonald
...The mole in his moleskins left his harrowing burrowing ....
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - By Anne Bront
...It was evident she loved me--probably she was tired of Mr. Lawrence, and wished to exchange him for me; and if I had loved and reverenced her less to begin with, the preference might have gratified and amused me; but now the contrast between her outward seeming and her inward mind, as I supposed,--between my former and my present opinion of her, was so harrowing--so distressing to my feelings, that it swallowed up every lighter consideration ....
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets - By Stephen Crane
...and a young man who was lost at sea under harrowing circumstances ....
Adam Bede - By George Eliot, Laura Johnson Wylie
...Often, in the last fortnight, Adam had imagined himself as close to Arthur as this, assailing him with words that should be as harrowing as the voice of remorse, forcing upon him a just share in the misery ho had caused; and often, too, he had told himself that such a meeting had better not be ....
The Awakening - By Kate Chopin
...Never would Edna Pontellier forget the shock with which she heard Madame Ratig-nolle relating to old Monsieur Farival the harrowing story of one of her accouchements, withholding no intimate detail ....
The Voyage Out - By Virginia Woolf
...No one dreams of reading this kind of thing now--antiquated problem plays, harrowing descriptions of life in the east end--oh, no, we 've exploded all that ....
Victory - By Joseph Conrad
...Far from it; but he would have consented to almost any arrangement in order to put an end to the harrowing scene in the cabin ....
The Octopus - By Frank Norris
...Never through all the past winter months of strenuous activity, the fever of political campaigns, the harrowing delays and ultimate defeat in one law court after another, had he forgotten the look in Hilma 's face as he stood with one arm around...
The Old Wives' Tale - By Arnold Bennett
...The effect of that requiem, heavy with its own inherent beauty and with the vast weight of harrowing tradition, was to wring the tears from Constance 's eyes; they fell on her aproned bosom, and she sank into a chair ....