All 4 Uses of
agony
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- I thought of the agonies I had gone through in coming from the hotel.†
Chpt 7 *
- Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece.†
Chpt 9
- I read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column.†
Chpt 10
- We had hardly reached the hall when we heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain