All 13 Uses of
agony
in
Dune
- His world emptied of everything except that hand immersed in agony, the ancient face inches away staring at him.†
Book 1 *
- No sign of agony on the flesh.†
Book 1
- He felt panic, closed his eyes tightly, experiencing the agony in his chest and little else until a hand touched his arm gently.†
Book 1
- You promised to deliver my Wanna from her agony.†
Book 1
- I told you I'd free her from the agony and permit you to join her.†
Book 1
- Leto grew conscious of a frog sound, the burred mewling of someone's agony.†
Book 1
- The sounds of agony coming through the door behind him gnawed at the Duke's nerves.†
Book 1
- "My Emperor has charged me to make certain his royal cousin dies cleanly without agony," the colonel bashar said.†
Book 1
- I'll teach you agony," she said in the same tone.†
Book 2
- You'll have agony such as will make the gom jabbar a happy memory by comparison.†
Book 2
- There was instant agony in the poison.†
Book 2
- She carried the same aura of power that he remembered from the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam who had tested him with agony in the way of the gom jabbar.†
Book 2
- The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Bene Gesserit Proctor who tested Paul's humanity when he was fifteen, deposes that he surmounted more agony in the test than any other human of record.†
Book A3 -
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain