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Updated: May 18, 2025
With mouth open and fixed eyeballs she seemed lost in the frightful fascination of the image before her brain. As, distracted by the sight of her torments, Adrian hung over her, racking his mind in the endeavour to soothe her, her words struck a chill into his very soul. He cast a terrified glance at the doctor who was ominously feeling her pulse. "There is a change," he faltered.
And now, upon the very edge of eternity and brink of doom, he proposes to make his own atonement, to be his own redeemer and save his own soul, by offering up to the eternal nemesis that was racking his conscience a few hours of finite suffering, instead of betaking himself to the infinite passion and agony of Calvary. This is a work; and, alas, a "dead work," as St. Paul so often denominates it.
She was racking her mind to discover some means of escape from her difficulties, when chance came to her rescue. For some time a young engineer, employed in surveys along the Rhone, had made the village of Beaucaire the centre of his operations.
Lennox that Katy had gone to bed with a racking headache. "Just the way I felt when I heard about Joel and Patty," Aunt Betsy said to herself, and as she remembered what had helped her then, so, fifteen minutes later, she appeared at Katy's bedside, with a cup of strong sage tea which she bade Katy swallow, telling her it was good for her complaint.
The slave knows that, if he says it was so, there is the cross for him, or the "little horse;" but that, if he will say the contrary, he will save his joints from racking. And yet the evidence went for what it was worth.
"And his coat had been nearly ripped off him; I saw it under his cape!" "Ah?" said Barnabas, still busy with his neckcloth. "And naturally enough," pursued the Viscount, "I've been trying to imagine yes, Bev, I've been racking my brain most damnably, wondering why you did it? "It was in the wood," said Barnabas. "So it was you, then?" "Yes, Dick." "But he didn't even mark you?"
For months and months I've been racking my brains to think up a plan. If we could only hit upon something that would turn his thoughts back to natural history again I mean something big enough to get him really excited we might manage it. But how?" she shrugged her shoulders in disgust "How? when all he thinks of now is paving streets and teaching papooses that twice one are two!"
I walked back and forth on the depot platform, racking my brain, as it were, to come across the needed address, but I just could not remember it. A man spoke to me and said, "You seem to be in deep meditation, or in trouble of some kind." I said, "I surely am." To which he replied, "Sometimes we get into such a fix; do you suppose I could be of any help to you?"
But I thought that he looked a little troubled, as if he were racking his brain for what the Prince could have let out, and was too proud or obstinate to ask. "You are selfish," I said. "Then there's no use my trying to make this ride pleasant for you, by telling you anecdotes of my past or Maida's." At this his profile changed.
The myth had not then been built up of putative great construction pioneers, risking their every cent, and racking their health and brains, in the construction of railways. It was in the very heyday of the bribing and swindling, as numerous investigating committees showed; there could be no glamour or illusion then.
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