Both Uses of
agony
in
Emma
- — This, though very undesirable, would be no matter of agony to her.†
Chpt 3.9-10 *
- They never could have been all three together, without her having stabbed Jane Fairfax's peace in a thousand instances; and on Box Hill, perhaps, it had been the agony of a mind that would bear no more.†
Chpt 3.11-12
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain