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intense feelings of suffering — can be from mental or physical pain

agony = intense suffering

agony = intense suffering

But the third rope was still moving; being so light, the child was still alive... For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

agony = intense suffering

He was very still, and for a moment I thought in agony: He's dead already.
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

agony = intense suffering

I've heard that lawyers' children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

agonies = intense feelings of suffering

The real agony was that he had nowhere to go, nothing to do, nothing to say, and WAS nothing himself.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

agony = intense suffering

agony = intense feelings of suffering

agony = intense feelings of suffering (can be from mental or physical pain)

I had but escaped death in one form of agony, to be delivered unto worse than death in some other.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

agony = intense suffering

agony = a state with intense suffering

Hear the crunching of the bayonet, plunged into human flesh; hear the groans and shrieks of agony,
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

agony = intense feelings of suffering

I put my hand before my eyes, and cried out in agony, ...
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

agony = intense feelings of suffering

She had brought him ecstatic happiness and intolerable agony of spirit.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

agony = intense feelings of suffering

Two shadows, below, thrashed in agony.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

agony = intense feelings of suffering

agony = intense feelings of suffering

The agony of pain was more than I could bear.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

agony = intense feelings of suffering

In the end he sat with the windbreaker pulled up, brushed with his hands and took it, almost crying in frustration and agony.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet

agony = with intense feelings of suffering

Everybody in the game knew the difference between a yell of pain and a scream of real agony.
Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant

agony = intense feelings of suffering

Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

agony = intense feelings of suffering

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