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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
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Above him, the sky twirled and stretched, dancing in his pain-racked vision.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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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
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Above him, the sky twirled and stretched, dancing in his pain-racked vision.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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A deep sense of thankfulness and relief flooded his pain-racked body.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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