All 24 Uses of
anguish
in
Frankenstein
- We returned again, with torches; for I could not rest, when I thought that my sweet boy had lost himself, and was exposed to all the damps and dews of night; Elizabeth also suffered extreme anguish.†
Chpt 7
- He was conveyed home, and the anguish that was visible in my countenance betrayed the secret to Elizabeth.†
Chpt 7
- I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.†
Chpt 7
- No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air.†
Chpt 7
- My own agitation and anguish was extreme during the whole trial.†
Chpt 8
- During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.†
Chpt 8
- Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.†
Chpt 8
- Elizabeth read my anguish in my countenance, and kindly taking my hand, said, "My dearest friend, you must calm yourself.†
Chpt 9
- He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.†
Chpt 10
- Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.†
Chpt 10
- I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.†
Chpt 15
- When night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.†
Chpt 16
- My daily vows rose for revengeāa deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.†
Chpt 16
- I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.†
Chpt 18
- Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.†
Chpt 18
- I saw an insurmountable barrier placed between me and my fellow men; this barrier was sealed with the blood of William and Justine, and to reflect on the events connected with those names filled my soul with anguish.†
Chpt 19
- Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.†
Chpt 19
- ...while every feature and every muscle was relaxed from anguish to pleasure.
Chpt 21 *anguish = extreme pain
- Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.†
Chpt 21
- Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.†
Chpt 21
- Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.†
Chpt 24
- Sometimes, seized with sudden agony, he could not continue his tale; at others, his voice broken, yet piercing, uttered with difficulty the words so replete with anguish.†
Chpt 24
- Not the ten-thousandth portion of the anguish that was mine during the lingering detail of its execution.†
Chpt 24
- I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)