torturingly

He was there a torturingly long time; but at length he came out to the room she waited in, and crossed it on his way downstairs.

Two on a Tower 2006

He found the story interesting — indeed, torturingly, heart-wringingly so — and, advising strongly against its publication, returned it.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Accursed newspapers, with their accursed routine, came back to me; all the stories and legends that I had ever heard, all the facts that I had ever learnt, came to me in a fashion wonderfully contorted and distorted; sensations welded together in ghastly, brain-stretching conglomerates, instinct with individuality and personality, human but torturingly inhuman, crowded in upon me.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

But the doubts were there now, one moment lulled to quiescence, the next more torturingly alert.

The Reef; a novel 1912

The thought made him uneasy, and caused the vigil which followed to appear torturingly long.

Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905

Few the souls escaping, and God have mercy upon those who stumble through the blinding darkness, made more torturingly hideous by the intermittent flashes of lurid light.

Violets and Other Tales Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

He understood her less, and valued her more than before, a thousand times more, achingly, torturingly more.

The Golden Silence 1901

He found the story interesting -- indeed, torturingly, heart-wringingly so -- and, advising strongly against its publication, returned it.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

He found the story interesting -- indeed, torturingly, heart-wringingly so -- and, advising strongly against its publication, returned it.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

But the doubts were there now, one moment lulled to quiescence, the next more torturingly alert.

The Reef Edith Wharton 1899