Agonizing

Examples

• At last a day and night of peculiarly agonizing depression were succeeded by physical illness, I took perforce to my bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Her firm spirit had not found relief in tears, and she suffered the more from all the painful retrospect and agonizing regret that now occupied her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I think it arises from my feeling sometimes an agonizing pity for myself that I ever was born. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This was all true; but it was not less agonizing to take the admonition home. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What agonizing fondness did I feel for them! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I resolved to visit London, to see him; to quiet these agonizing throes by the sweet medicine of hope, or the opiate of despair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I never, never should have got over such a agonizing mortification. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Until now, agonizing retrospect, and dreary prospects for the future, had stung me when awake, and cradled me to my repose. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At first these agonizing plaints filled me with intolerable compassion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The enthusiasm that inspired her with this strange joy, blinded her to the horrors about her; but they were intolerably agonizing to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agonizing than the strange chances that have lately occurred. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Edited by Candice