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Updated: May 22, 2025
It is not even a positive influence for achievement. It is merely a negative blessing. With good health you may hope to reach your highest mental and spiritual development free from the harassment of soul-racking pain. But without good health men have reached the summit of Parnassus and have dragged their tortured bodies up behind them.
But they must have had the most tremendous inner adventures and soul-racking experiences the big ones or they couldn't have written as they did....This must be the more true in regard to women." Gora continued to stare at her. The words sank in. Her clear intellect appreciated the truth of them but they afforded her no consolation. All emotion had died out of her. She felt beaten, helpless.
Discomfort, hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, pain; above all the terror of his fellows these were the soul-racking anticipations of this new life into which it was a matter of honour for him to plunge. And to an essential gentleman like Doggie a matter of honour was a matter of life.
Shirley breathed deeply, drinking in the maddening perfume of her glorious hair, so perilously near his own face. The shimmer of her shoulders, the adorable curves of that enticing scarlet mouth murmuring so near his own, and yet so far away, in this soul-racking game of make-believe, stirred his blood as nothing else had done in all the kalaediscopic years. "Yes, a more than curious world.
Can she give any satisfactory explanation of her absence?" were the next anxious, soul-racking questions that chased each other through his mind. "Oh, for the strong pinions of the eagle, that I might fly to her at once and satisfy all these anxious doubts," he breathed. It was now but six o'clock in the afternoon.
They strove to persuade the young girl out of these chimeras, and daily repetition of soul-racking disputes was the result. Only in one member of the family did the young idealist find understanding in her elder sister, Helene, with whom she later emigrated to America, and whose love and sympathy have never failed her.
"Then before and after the draft the whole country was at a white heat of all that the approach of war rouses. Fear, self-preservation, love of country, hate of the Huns, inspired patriotism, and in most everybody the will to fight and to sacrifice.... The war was a long, hideous, soul-racking, nerve-destroying time.
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