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  • Need-wrack and grim nithing, of night-bales the greatest. The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
  • Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist. The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
  • Speaking in public can be a nerve-wracking experience.
  • The game ended up going to a penalty shootout, which was pretty nerve-wracking, and a little anticlimatic at the same time.
  • Under current media regulations, all foreign journalists need to be accredited by the government before entering the violence-wracked country.
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  • Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said his former wife and student son had been "pestered" by reporters, with one "rooting about" in dustbins. The Guardian World News
  • Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month.
  • Somewhat more creationist in approach is the Nerve-Wracking Ball: a bowling ball on a rope, dangling from a tall tree branch. 04.04
  • Exams can be nerve-wracking, and controlling your stress levels around this time can be difficult.
  • He found the soapy mucus within the vesicles of the Bladderwrack an excellent resolvent, and most useful in dispersing scrofulous swellings. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Products containing guarana, garcinia, and bladderwrack are being touted as effective, although there isn't any scientific evidence that they'll help shed pounds.
  • It was a little nerve wracking to start with and I dropped some points on basic stuff and muffed the random attack sequence identification but I recovered on the cuts and the moulinet sequence. Duelling scars
  • Sudan, already wracked by civil war fueled in part by failing rains, is projected to suffer as much as a 56 percent reduction in agricultural production potential; Senegal, a 52 percent fall. About: Blinded by Science
  • Several weeks on the insomniac is unsteady on his feet, wracked by fevers, and drifting in an out of delirium as the body's vital organs begin to fail. 40 entries from September 2007
  • Competing against a friend to see who can wrack up the highest score is what makes pinball fun.
  • The jintleman we tuk off the wrack's rekivered his sinses, an 'none ov us, sure, can under-constubble his furrin lingo barrin' yersilf, sor. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
  • I felt rather sorry for him, having to find out stuff like this, and after going through my own share of shocks, I knew just how mind-wracking and stupefying this could be.
  • seaweed to lay on her lips and bladderwrack to cover her thighs. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
  • Called chikungunya, from an East African tribal word describing the contorted postures of its pain-wracked victims, the pathogen has been the focus of intense scientific interest ever since a 2006 outbreak on the island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean infected about 266,000 people, killing 260 of them. The Daily News - News
  • I'm not sure if it transcends its time, but its primal fear of co-option and absorption into "the Borg" of conventionality is nerve-wracking. Friday YouTube: The Ending of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather.
  • The bladderwrack extract naturally reduces appetite, helping slimmers to lose weight gradually.
  • Sitting down beside him, Brenna wracked her brain for a conversation opener.
  • As the wracking tears continue to come, the blackness becomes complete and there is something that happens to her mind.
  • A portmanteau is a word that turns your wracked brain into a mental case. Making Light: Open thread 136
  • Of course, now that I'm here, I'm suddenly wracked with uncertainty.
  • But he pushed me to make amends, and the whole thing was pretty nerve-wracking really, but it was a mostly cool night.
  • There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for awhile.
  • But then back in the world of sound political strategies for the immediate future … I don’t think the political circumstances are ripe for dramatic alteration of the American health care system, and I don’t want to see the next Democratic president’s first term wracked on the shoals of health care reform. Matthew Yglesias » The Center
  • However, McLachlan and McGwynne quantified algal wrack as a nitrogen source for beaches as a whole.
  • On his deathbed, wracked by tuberculosis, he seems to have cursed his fate.
  • Dammit, gonna need a volunteer drag queen ... yes, my brain is frantically scrabbling around trying to find things that might be more itneresting than the ending of All the Windwracked Stars.) (Which is what I need to go work on right now, alackaday.) Link salad, big essplosions edition
  • What if all the cities in the US were wracked by a crime wave, with thousands of murders, kidnappings, burglaries, and carjackings in every major city every year?
  • The clink and chink of the glass was soothing and nerve-wracking all at once.
  • And he admits his first show, in Shepherds Bush, London, where Naomi was in the audience, was nerve-wracking.
  • Kelps are generally larger than the wracks and the most common, known as Tangle or Oarweed, Laminaria digitata, grows up to 3 – 4 metres long.
  • Miles writhed and twisted as pain wracked his body.
  • Eye contact can be nerve-wracking in a presentation setting, but stay cool try to focus on each classmate one at a time.
  • On 28 July 1914, with the black wrack of imminent war rolling in from the east, Churchill requisitioned them both for the Royal Navy.
  • It's nerve-wracking and fraught with the potential for rejection and humiliation.
  • I wracked my brain trying to reinterpret the phone call, but how can you explain away a wife? SOMEBODY
  • The very instant he touched it, his whole body was wracked by pain.
  • He blinked as pain wracked his body and paralyzed him momentarily.
  • Flying is nerve-wracking at the best of times, and it only takes one stupid and irresponsible person to turn a holiday flight into an airborne nightmare.
  • People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled, weather-revealed shells.
  • The idea of a wild chaotic continent wracked by poverty, drought and tribal warfare is challenged by images as well as words.
  • Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
  • Hot on the fast lane to stardom, the young guys and gals are wracking brains, boggling minds.
  • We alone can be wracked with doubt, and we alone have been provoked by that epistemic itch to seek a remedy: better truth-seeking methods.
  • The Lightning captain joked Sunday that this year's playoff run had been more nerve wracking for his family, which assembled in Tampa at the start of the playoffs and has yet to leave. USATODAY.com - Andreychuk's quest for Stanley Cup ends after 22 seasons
  • You can walk over rough slabs, cannon-ball boulders, limpets and bladderwrack to delight in the over-the-waves-views all the way to the white cliffs of Flamborough Head.
  • It meant he had to wrack his brains over how to write Jeff out of the story - he was, after all, Steve's best mate.
  • A tetanic convulsion wracked Spock's body, arching his spine and forcing from him a shuddering, anguished scream. THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
  • As Aristotle in his Ethicks doth saye of the losse which shippmen do suffer in a tempest/which do cast out of their ship al their Goodes whẽ they be in daunger of shipp wracke: They seame truly to be compelled to do it/and yet willingly they do it/and therfor they are sayed. A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
  • The earliest drawings in the show were almost nerve-wracking to view, conveying the feeling of huge ideas having been forced onto a tiny stage.
  • Bottle-wrack, on the other hand, makes a clear separation between growth and reproduction.
  • This is obviously a distracting, nerve-wracking, uncomfortable experience for him.
  • Matt Wrack, mover of the successful democratisation of the political fund resolution at the firefighters' FBU conference last year, has agreed to write a pamphlet on the issue for the alliance.
  • So, the Bride had mounted into her handsome chariot, incidentally accompanied by the Bridegroom; and after rolling for a few minutes smoothly over a fair pavement, had begun to jolt through a Slough of Despond, and through a long, long avenue of wrack and ruin. Little Dorrit
  • Other species in danger are the brown hare, skylark, linnet, reed bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, bullfinch, song thrush and grass-wrack pondweed.
  • Speaking in public can be a nerve-wracking experience.
  • He clutched his stomach and doubled over, as silent sobs wracked his frail body.
  • I don’t think the political circumstances are ripe for dramatic alteration of the American health care system, and I don’t want to see the next Democratic president’s first term wracked on the shoals of health care reform. Matthew Yglesias » The Center
  • You're wracked now because you cannot make amends.
  • With that, Willow smiled, not a flirtatious grin with a wink, not a sneer, not a scowl; the sickness had wracked her sharply, forcing a new, solemn calm upon her.
  • Cash treats the song (which I'm only vaguely familiar with in its NINcarnation as a moaning anti-drug plaint about waste) as a kind of dirgelike meditation on the last, dying embers of life; the video shows archival footage of the Man In Black contrasted with the Dying King of today, surrounded by the wrack of the flood-ravaged (although the video brilliantly implies tragic, Ozymandian neglect) Cash Museum in Nashville. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • Just getting up on the stage at first was really nerve-wracking.
  • The in-theater seizures, also known as photosensitive epilepsy, are thought to be a result of the bright flashing of red, black and white during the film's nerve-wracking scene. ABC News: Top Stories
  • The race figures to be competitive, with Andrus 'current term wracked by scandal, lawsuits and constant battles with the town's Board of Aldermen, led by Jones. Thenewsstar.com - Sports
  • We are still finding out where wig wrack grows, we have 70+ confirmed sites in Scotland so far and four in Northern Ireland.
  • The extra weight acted as levers which made Hsu Fu twist and wrack even more.
  • While the American contestants were more serious in their competitiveness, they were wracked with guilt about demonstrating individualistic, competitive qualities.
  • But starting a casual conversation with a stranger -- especially when that stranger has the power to boost your career -- can be nerve-wracking for even the most outgoing people.
  • Baghdad and other cities are wracked by small arms and remote bomb ambushes and by mortar and rocket attacks, and are closed to commercial air traffic.
  • Choose an unpolluted bit of rocky coast and collect a variety of weeds such as kelp and wrack (particularly Asophyllum nodosum), boil for 15 minutes and add to the bath water.
  • The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved.
  • We began with a cast and crew meet and greet, which is always a little nerve-wracking. Your Local Guardian | Wimbledon
  • They were off the Balk -- the reef that at low water ran covered in oar wrack out towards the Cages. THE MAIN CAGES
  • But apparently enamored of their own hype aura, they've spelled out ‘too cool for school’ in wracked and twisted pipe cleaners and call the tangled and spiny mess a second album.
  • I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes. Little Sparrow, Big Thirst: James Wolcott
  • He is wracked by fear and exhibits signs of having been tortured.
  • Though Washington again overcame its problems and found a way to win, the process is becoming nerve-wracking, players said. Redskins top Packers, 16-13, on Graham Gano's field goal in overtime
  • ‘I went in for a camera test and that was the most nerve-wracking part of the entire shoot,’ she says.
  • Finally the tears fall, fast and hard as the sobs wrack her slim body with their force.
  • They pushed forward galleries formed of hurdles of green reeds, and oaken semicircles like enormous shields gliding on three wheels; the workers were sheltered in little huts covered with raw hides and stuffed with wrack; the catapults and ballistas were protected by rope curtains which had been steeped in vinegar to render them incombustible. Salammbo
  • Take Liberia for example, wracked by a 14-year civil war, sparked by political misrule and economic collapse.
  • Now the city, with all its meaningless wonders, its mind-wracking vistas, and its fantastic inhabitants, was falling behind him; he could relax once more with the spectacle of those calm, magnificent peaks, gilded by the faintly aureate glow of the eternal dawn. Tin
  • Apart from the obvious physical attributes - the Cuillin mountains, empty beaches, wildlife, views of gunmetal seas over bladderwracked rocks - the island does not wear its heart on its sleeve.
  • The anguish that she felt came pouring out and she cried, shuddering as the sobs wracked her body.
  • Here we have Fabletown under direct and vicious attack from Pinocchio's brothers, with sinister infiltration by the woman who calls herself Red Riding Hood, and wracked also by an internal power struggle between Old King Cole and Prince Charming. The Book Game
  • The May scallach, coincident with the week between the full moon and the last quarter, brought one of the greatest yields of wrack of every description and species to the beach at Enniscrone.
  • It's all too easy to obtain an 'online agreement in principle' only to find that, after a nerve wracking two weeks wait, you're rejected when the underwriter realises you are not a permie or asks you to show accounts (which clearly won't reflect what you truly earn - otherwise you need a new accountant!!) Bytestart
  • Exams can be nerve-wracking, and controlling your stress levels around this time can be difficult.
  • In the sickbay, Renny's body wracked with a sudden spasm, ripping off one of the monitors.
  • I know for a fact that I sound like a complete dunce when I leave my number, which takes twice as long as it should because I fail to plan ahead and have to wrack my brain for the Spanish translation of every digit.
  • The bottom of his canoe is a wrack of fish — pike and walleyes stacked like driftwood. T.
  • Back in 1992, my brother was hospitalized, his body wracked by the ravages of AIDS.
  • Baby Gliss never had a chance _ born infected with the AIDS virus, abandoned by his mother, now wracked by disease that emaciates his face and makes him wheeze for breath. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • We alone can be wracked with doubt, and we alone have been provoked by that epistemic itch to seek a remedy: better truth-seeking methods.
  • Periodic crises wrack the capitalist system, and they grow in size and duration.
  • Saw wrack is the main seaweed used, taken fresh from the shore, washed in seawater and stored briefly.
  • Sage, sarsaparilla, bladderwrack - but what is devil's claw, boneset or boldo? Times, Sunday Times
  • Without marijuana, they'd be housebound - weak, unable to hold down food and wracked with muscle spasms.
  • Dear old Martin saw the early 20th century as chockers with these decisive moments and he was wracked with anxiety in case he missed the crucial event.
  • Us can do all your work, and you can stay in bed till your legs is not cracked any more, "for they had heard her complaining of her knees and ankles being" wracked "with pain. Us An Old Fashioned Story
  • I was wracked by conflicting feelings this Tuesday.
  • Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
  • It was more nerve-wracking than taking a World Cup penalty.
  • Mickle wrack was it soothly for the friend of the Scyldings, 170 The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
  • The Balls and the Lathams, the Honeys and the Coffins of that ancient day had "wracked" the stranded craft most thoroughly. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod
  • Death instinct generates attack, destroy, war, and other wrack and ruin behavior.
  • I am wracking my brain now trying to remember if I was experimenting with a new kind of groundcover last year because in one area that is what I seem to have - so much of this stuff that it's either a dastardly foe or a real winner. SPRING 2009 SITE CLEANUP
  • The bank was wracked by internal divisions between the bank's traditional managers and the outsiders headed by Sir Kit.
  • The Coalition parties themselves are wracked by tensions and divisions, and there are concerns among the ruling elite that the situation could well explode.
  • Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
  • He looked inwards at his wracked body and mind, then his shining soul.
  • An analysis of the Bladderwrack has shown it to contain an empyreumatic oil, sulphur, earthy salts, some iron, and iodine freely. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • seaweed to lay on her lips and bladderwrack to cover her thighs. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • The selection procedure for independent schools is, for parents and children alike, a nerve-wracking experience.
  • The base AC to shoot a caravel is -3 because it’s just a big ass object really (value taken from Stormwrack), or AC3 if you want to shoot at a specific section. Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related
  • I'll do the wracking of the brains to think of something new to write each time.
  • It is a wracking emotional journey which never strays from its inspirational purpose.
  • I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes. Little Sparrow, Big Thirst: James Wolcott
  • Devon struggled to speak through the convulsive shivering that wracked his body.
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  • I must admit that the week before we left I was wracked by anxiety over the idea of crossing the ocean, but in fact, once we were under way it was fine.
  • Going down the first few ‘cuestas’ was nerve-wracking because often we were much faster than any car or motorcycle.
  • Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
  • “We didn’t mean for any of that to happen,” the skinny boy called, his expression wracked with guilt. Soulless
  • NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the aftermath of a titanic explosion that wracked the elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4636.
  • The smash and grab antics of sea trout as they snatch your fly and tear away into the bladderwrack is a heart stopping experience most trout anglers would give their eye teeth for.
  • I wracked my brain trying to reinterpret the phone call, but how can you explain away a wife? SOMEBODY
  • Yet before engaging in courteous battle of wits with the Welsh Windbag, I had seen the famous Silk pacing the small Robing Room at Lincoln Castle wracked with nerves before going into bat against an acknowledged second-rater of a judge. Archive 2007-07-29
  • The ordeal of the police identity parade is as nerve-wracking for those who take part as the witnesses on the far side of the darkened glass screen.
  • While he was the first to perform it was nowhere near as nerve-wracking as the day one try-outs.
  • All the Windwracked Stars started with Muire finding a corpse is an alley, which is now the start of chapter two, while chapter one is a different time and place alltogether -- well, you'll see soon enough. I was never faithful and i was never one to trust
  • In the bad old days of the inflation-wracked 1970s and 1980s, any pickup in prices was something to be feared.
  • The organisers and planners spent nerve-wracking minutes as Perth went against all planning, going down stern first and initially listed alarmingly to port, before righting herself.
  • Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
  • The fact only one team will be relegated at the end of the campaign doesn't make matters any less nerve-wracking for those in the danger zone.
  • Taking the Stormwrack method of doing ship damage, where e.g. a caravel has 24 hull sections with hardness 5 and 80 hp each, and six must be destroyed to sink the ship – it requires 3-4 good hits with a culverin to destroy one 10x10x10 section. Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related
  • This was a nerve-wracking ordeal for me as Tony's bungalow was one of the few on the mine where the windows were not netted in.
  • Deposited wrack may decompose in place or may be removed by subsequent tides leaving an unvegetated patch of bare soil.
  • We walked first over a soft, weedy mass of hornwrack. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a little nerve wracking, but at least I didn't freeze up, which is what I was worried about.
  • He won the 2002 air rifle world title in a nerve-wracking shoot off with Jie Li of China.
  • A nerve-wracking wait added to the mounting psychological pressure as we charted the progress of the sun over the Anglesey seascape.
  • They were off the Balk -- the reef that at low water ran covered in oar wrack out towards the Cages. THE MAIN CAGES
  • Graduate Fashion Week is a nerve-wracking time for students and tutors staging 31 shows which attract over 40,000 visitors.
  • The doctor mentions a ‘botanical thyroid formula’ that she put her patient on, consisting of coleus, bladderwrack, guggul and so forth.
  • While leprous signs wracked the entire body, notably disfiguring the face, making public a private sin, it was on the genitals that the first signs of syphilis would appear.
  • Allbaugh said he was helping private companies, including his clients, cut through federal red tape to speed provision of services and supplies to the storm-wracked region.
  • Fucus Vesiculosus, or bladderwrack is a seaweed rich in iodine, which, if used in safe quantities, can prevent under-active thyroid in the same way iodized salt does. The Pink Patch - Irresponsible Advertising on My Space
  • The house rang with the wreak and wrack of wood, and that _tick tick tick_ of the heating system. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • A nurse is facing a nerve-wracking few weeks waiting for the result of tests to find whether or not he has been injected with the HIV virus.
  • The patch impregnated with extracts of a sea algae called bladderwrack is not a diet but naturally reduces appetite, helping slimmers to lose weight gradually.

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