The agony in her head was excruciating, and her limbs felt cramped and bruised.
In his heart he was pondering several most excruciating methods of murdering the man.
He felt something like a wire loop slipped about his wrists, and suffered an excruciating pain as the Chinaman tightened the connecting link of the native handcuff.
Just imagine, if you can, such an excruciating situation: a woman, her husband, and two men who used to be her husbands, all compelled to meet together and think of something to say!