was exorcising
- past progressive of exorcise.
Example Sentences
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Silent and wondering he lay very still, conscious that by some subtle power she was exorcising the demons of pain.
From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Roe, Edward Payson
She was again confronting that spectre which for years had lain buried and which the man before her was exorcising back to life.
From Tides of Barnegat by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
