“The punishment of my imprudence in the use of my name and loss of credit is perhaps what I deserve but it is nevertheless severe on my family and on my account, I feel it most tormentingly.” ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
To the south, in the island of Zante, the capital town blazed beneath a rain of incandescent cinders that fell upon the flesh so tormentingly that both men and dogs went mad. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
The pace was tormentingly slow on that completely plastic, unpaved road, and from time to time the wagon bogged to its axles in mud. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)
His mouth left hers, descending to the taut fullness of her breast, his tongue circling the nipple tormentingly. ❋ Jordan, Penny (1997)
She shivered as she heard the words whisper tormentingly against her aroused flesh. ❋ Jordan, Penny (1997)
His tongue touched the sensitive flesh, lightly, rhythmically, tormentingly, until she cried out his name and slid her hands to his shoulders, arching her body upwards and shuddering in frantic pleasure as she felt his response to her need and totally abandoned herself to the fierce tug of his mouth against her breast. ❋ Jordan, Penny (1997)
Her breasts, so sensitive to his touch, ached tormentingly as he dragged away the unwanted barrier of cotton. ❋ Jordan, Penny, 1946- (1989)
She gasped out loud as his hand swept down the side of her body and across the taut muscles of her belly, unerrinqy finding the place where she ached and pulsed so tormentingly, and as though he knew immediately how great her need was he picked her up and carried her, not into her own room, but into, i his, depositing her gently on the large bed. ❋ Jordan, Penny, 1946- (1989)
He stood before her in all his iron-hard glory, even more tormentingly erotic than she had remembered. ❋ Lisa, Leonore (1982)
Between him and Janie there was only an agreement that could be snapped like a thread that had patched up the hole in his life that only Roxanne could fill, however tormentingly. ❋ Winspear, Violet (1980)
But for those of us who are not pacifists yet wish to live by humane values, there is all the greater need for moral self-scrutiny and criticism, even — especially — when these become tormentingly entangled with political expediencies. ❋ Roche, John P. (1966)
Rarely, indeed, did our acknowledged politicians or essayists seek its columns for the promulgation of their ideas, and its editorial displays were generally tormentingly feeble. ❋ Various (N/A)
"You know," persisted the prisoner, tormentingly, "there's a law against paying wages in scrip." ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
But surely he is great and holy because he is a man, a madly and tormentingly beautiful man; a man of the whole of mankind. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Yet it was not she who tugged tormentingly at his heart. ❋ May Edginton (1920)
But he tried to smile at Mrs. Wallace as he touched her hand; he hardly dared look at her again, knowing from old experience how every incident and every detail of her person would rise tormentingly before his recollection. ❋ Unknown (1919)
