Harrowed [verb]

I think one thing that helped in my crazy attempt to do an Italo Calvino is that Harrow does not give that much of herself in book one.

Because Harrow when she’s thinking of herself is not how she talks.

In between, the soil was all harrowed and upturned into great cusps as though many swine had been rooting there for mast.

With his harrowed face, his unwelcome caresses, his unanswerable prayers for a little love, he ceased to be tragic.

Harrowed by the multiplex difficulties surrounding an intrigue, Persis was kept waiting at the door a long time in the cold.

Mel knowed; a state of puzzlement or even a good mad's a mighty sight better than bein' all harrowed up and grief-stricken.

Who like the poor are harrowed with oppression, ever subject to the imperious taxes, and the gripes of mightiness?

She turned a harrowed glance his way, and saw, to her bewilderment, that he was smiling broadly.

Usually air-slaked, and applied as a top-dressing, or plowed or harrowed in, its effects are important.

The tears, the first he had shed, humanized and soothed his harrowed feelings.