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  • Even her pain-racked but productive last years and death, at 66, from cancer, are compared with the last days of the 18th-century master Antoine Watteau, who painted one of his finest works, a crowded scene of an art dealer's shop, just before dying of tuberculosis.

    A Fiercely Gifted Artist Karen WIlkin 2011

  • Above him, the sky twirled and stretched, dancing in his pain-racked vision.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011

  • Again, with the toe of his moccasin, he touched the Cossack -- a grisly spectacle, no longer conscious -- yet in whose dismembered body the pain-racked life clung and was loth to go.

    Lost Face 2010

  • Above him, the sky twirled and stretched, dancing in his pain-racked vision.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011

  • A deep sense of thankfulness and relief flooded his pain-racked body.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • And though her shade would carry heavy regrets on the long journey, I was glad she would not go burdened by her fragile, pain-racked body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • And though her shade would carry heavy regrets on the long journey, I was glad she would not go burdened by her fragile, pain-racked body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • And though her shade would carry heavy regrets on the long journey, I was glad she would not go burdened by her fragile, pain-racked body.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The attorney general, sick and pain-racked from a rare pancreatic disease, rose up from his bed, gathering what little strength he had, and firmly told the president's emissaries that he would not sign their papers.

    Now We Know What the Battle Was About 2008

  • The victim is transfigured, pain-racked, his lower lip dribbling off his face, a growth appearing at the side of his neck, a radiant time-lapse melanoma.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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