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Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarme' d, lark-charme' d, rook- racked, river-rounded.
gerard manley hopkins— 1879 Of Oxford.'Duns Scotus's Oxford', published1918.
Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair.
john milton— 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.126.
Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. Be near me when the sensuous frame Is racked with pains that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 50, l.1-8.
He remembered the dissolute adventures in which his senses, his nervous system and his mind had indulged; he saw himself corroded by irony and intellect, laid waste and paralyzed by insight, almost exhausted by the fevers and chills of creation, helplessly and contritely tossed to and fro between gross extremes, between saintly austerity and lust oversophisticated and impoverished, worn out by cold, rare artificial ecstasies, lost, ravaged, racked and sick and he sobbed with remorse and nostalgia.
thomas mann— Ch. 8, as translated by David Luke
In the last decade of the 20th century, Srinagar has been racked by some of the worst incidents of violence and killing that the country has witnessed.
— History, in "Brief History of Kashmir"
Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— L24
