All 5 Uses of
agony
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- "Only don't say I didn't warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well—I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.†
Chpt 1
- Anger was still too hot in her heart for that and it sustained her amid all her agony of humiliation.†
Chpt 15 *
- Into the kitchen she dashed and flung herself face downward on the sofa in an agony.†
Chpt 16
- All this might be quite true, and indeed, proved to be so, but it did not materially help Anne in the first agony of homesickness that seized upon her.†
Chpt 34
- Marilla's impassioned grief, breaking all the bounds of natural reserve and lifelong habit in its stormy rush, she could comprehend better than Anne's tearless agony.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain