All 14 Uses of
agony
in
Oliver Twist
- And yet he burst into an agony of childish grief, as the cottage-gate closed after him.†
Chpt 2 *
- The child beat his hand upon his heart; and looked in his companion's face, with tears of real agony.†
Chpt 4
- Such agony, please, sir!'†
Chpt 7
- One wretched breathless child, panting with exhaustion; terror in his looks; agony in his eyes; large drops of perspiration streaming down his face; strains every nerve to make head upon his pursuers; and as they follow on his track, and gain upon him every instant, they hail his decreasing strength with joy.†
Chpt 10
- My poor, dear, sweet, innocent little brother!' exclaimed Nancy, bursting into tears, and wringing the little basket and the street-door key in an agony of distress.†
Chpt 13
- Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold; of secret murders that had been committed by the lonely wayside; of bodies hidden from the eye of man in deep pits and wells: which would not keep them down, deep as they were, but had yielded them up at last, after many years, and so maddened the murderers with the sight, that in their horror they had confessed their guilt, and yelled for the gibbet to end their agony.†
Chpt 20
- But the girl's voice was in his ear, beseeching him in such tones of agony to remember her, that he had not the heart to utter it.†
Chpt 20
- Then the Jew, in an agony of impatience, watched every morsel he put into his mouth; pacing up and down the room, meanwhile, in irrepressible excitement.†
Chpt 25
- Oliver felt such fear come over him when he recognised the place, that, for the instant, he forgot the agony of his wound, and thought only of flight.†
Chpt 28
- I had forgotten it for a moment, Oliver, but I hope I may be pardoned, for I am old, and have seen enough of illness and death to know the agony of separation from the objects of our love.†
Chpt 33
- And what had been the fervency of all the prayers he had ever muttered, compared with those he poured forth, now, in the agony and passion of his supplication for the life and health of the gentle creature, who was tottering on the deep grave's verge!†
Chpt 33
- 'The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yesterday, nor one I have lightly formed.†
Chpt 34
- 'It is,' cried the girl, writhing in agony of her mind; 'I cannot leave him now!†
Chpt 40
- There were twenty score of violent deaths in one long minute of that agony of fear.†
Chpt 48
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain