All 5 Uses of
agony
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- This picture brought such an agony of pleasurable suffering that he worked it over and over again in his mind and set it up in new and varied lights, till he wore it threadbare.†
Chpt 3 *
- And thus he would dieāout in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came.†
Chpt 3
- Then there was a wild yelp of agony and the poodle went sailing up the aisle; the yelps continued, and so did the dog; he crossed the house in front of the altar; he flew down the other aisle; he crossed before the doors; he clamored up the home-stretch; his anguish grew with his progress, till presently he was but a woolly comet moving in its orbit with the gleam and the speed of light.†
Chpt 5
- Tom was in an agony.†
Chpt 9
- The boys clasped each other suddenly, in an agony of fright.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain