lancinating
Example Sentences
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Self-pity shot through her tremendous pride; and the lancinating stab made her inattentive even to her curiosity concerning the purpose of Janet's visit.
From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold
And Edwin thought, with a lancinating pain, of what the old man had mumbled on the previous evening: “I shall never go down them stairs again.”
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
The lancinating pain of doubt passed away, and she remained thinking of the impossibility of bearing any longer with the life.
From Vain Fortune by Moore, George (George Augustus)
As she looked her heart seemed to become gradually constricted; she became conscious of actual pain--acute, lancinating.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Marsh, Richard
She sighed, half with lancinating regret, and half in gentle disdain of that mercurial creature aged less than thirty.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
