Racking Quotations
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
William Law
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Arthur Bryant
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Charles Churchill
I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
Eva Braun
Racking Translations
racking in German is streckend
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