Agonies

Examples

• The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He yielded, but it was with agonies which did not admit of speech. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And so, when the paroxysms came on, each more severe than the last, they were fresh agonies, and greater disappointments to him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I go; but when I return, I swear by all the saints that you shall suffer agonies for every word you have uttered to-day. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The agonies that woman has endured are quite frightful to hear of. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I thought of the agonies I had gone through in coming from the hotel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• His agonies were very severe all this day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Wopsle died amiably at Camberwell, and exceedingly game on Bosworth Field, and in the greatest agonies at Glastonbury. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• What do any of you care for the agonies and tortures of a poor forsaken woman? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Oh, yes, my agonies were frightful, Becky owned, not perhaps without a twinge of conscience. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They have decided to carry her with us back to Thark, and exhibit her last agonies at the great games before Tal Hajus, replied Sarkoja. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The agonies of the victim attracted attention, and Edison's mother marked her displeasure by an application of the switch kept behind the old Seth Thomas grandfather clock. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That next morning, which Rebecca thought was to dawn upon her fortune, found Sedley groaning in agonies which the pen refuses to describe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Elizabeth was in agonies. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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