lancinating
Example Sentences
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Perhaps never before, only once in any case, did I experience an excitement so lancinating as I experienced that day.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)
It is, as we have seen, commonly of a lancinating character, and is associated with hurried breathing and extreme frequency of the pulse.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The pain, like that from the inflammation of serous membranes, is of a lancinating character.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The pains are very sharp, lancinating, and burning.
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)
Neuralgic headaches are of an entirely different character; the pains are here of a lancinating character, and are not confined to any one region of the head.
From The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene by Galbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)
