All 7 Uses of
agony
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Tom was dejected by the thought that his exemplary effort must always be baffled by the wrong-doing of others; Maggie was living through, over and over again, the agony of the moment in which she had rushed to throw herself on her father's arm, with a vague, shuddering foreboding of wretched scenes to come.†
Chpt 5.7
- "Oh, what shall I do?" cried Maggie, in an agony.†
Chpt 6.13 *
- "Oh, I can't do it," she said, in a voice almost of agony; "Stephen, don't ask me—don't urge me.†
Chpt 6.14
- But even in its utmost agony—even in those terrible throes that love must suffer before it can be disembodied of selfish desire—my love for you sufficed to withhold me from suicide, without the aid of any other motive.†
Chpt 7.3
- No, she must wait; she must pray; the light that had forsaken her would come again; she should feel again what she had felt when she had fled away, under an inspiration strong enough to conquer agony,—to conquer love; she should feel again what she had felt when Lucy stood by her, when Philip's letter had stirred all the fibres that bound her to the calmer past.†
Chpt 7.5
- In the first moments Maggie felt nothing, thought of nothing, but that she had suddenly passed away from that life which she had been dreading; it was the transition of death, without its agony,—and she was alone in the darkness with God.†
Chpt 7.5
- For the first time Maggie's heart began to beat in an agony of dread.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain