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Moreover, he was troubled with the painfulest bashfulness which ever made a mother think her child too ethereal, or a dispassionate outsider regard him as too flimsy, for this world.

A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Under the current of this book runs the keenest, painfulest craving to give freely to life these very elements -- its intensest inner-spirit is of love and beauty; it throbs and burns with a sympathy for suffering humanity which is at once fierce and tearful.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

What he knew, and what he knew not, awoke in him the painfulest emotions.

Chapter VIII. Book II 1917

In the German army the private who raises his knee the highest and sticks his shank out ahead of him the straightest, and slams his foot down the hardest and jars his brain the painfulest, is promoted to be a corporal and given a much heavier pair of shoes, so that he may make more noise and in time utterly destroy his reason.

Europe Revised 1910

Doubt storms-in on him through every avenue; inquiries of the deepest, painfulest sort must be engaged with; and the invincible energy of young years waste itself in sceptical, suicidal cavillings; in passionate ‘questionings of Destiny, ’ whereto no answer will be returned.

Paras. 40-58 1909

Her feelings on this tragic occasion have been described above; and may well be pictured as among the painfulest, tenderest and saddest that a

The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838

After four weary years of the most unreadable reading, the painfulest poking and delving, I have come at last to the conclusion -- that I must write a Book on

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

27D: The "Working Girl" girl and others (Tesses) - the painfulest answer in the puzzle.

Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2008

After four weary years of the most unreadable reading, the painfulest poking and delving, I have come at last to the conclusion ” that I must write a Book on Cromwell; that there is no rest for me till I do it.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883