lancinating
Example Sentences
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There in that lancinating cold, in an ecstasy of rage, despairfully he poised over it.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
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)
The following night he was agitated, frequently awakened by lancinating pains in the affected part, and sometimes by a sense of tension in the head.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
In character they are described as a deep intense aching, with occasional severe or excruciating, sharp, lancinating pains.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
