Both Uses of
agony
in
The War of the Worlds
- At that I ducked at once under water, and, holding my breath until movement was an agony, blundered painfully ahead under the surface as long as I could.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- If one could have hung that June morning in a balloon in the blazing blue above London every northward and eastward road running out of the tangled maze of streets would have seemed stippled black with the streaming fugitives, each dot a human agony of terror and physical distress.†
Chpt 1.17
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain