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intense feelings of suffering — can be from mental or physical pain- She was in agony from a toothache.
agony = intense suffering
- I've experienced both the agony and the ecstasy of athletic competition.
- She cried out in agony.
- 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
- His face contracted in agony, and sweat streamed down his face.S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- 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
- 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
- This body had never felt such agony before.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- and Seth, howling in agony .Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- 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
- why must I die and die in agony?Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- Hear the crunching of the bayonet, plunged into human flesh; hear the groans and shrieks of agony,Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
- He was very still, and for a moment I thought in agony: He's dead already.S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- I put my hand before my eyes, and cried out in agony, ...Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- She had brought him ecstatic happiness and intolerable agony of spirit.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams
- Two shadows, below, thrashed in agony.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- He groaned and twisted in agony.David Almond -- Skellig
- The agony of pain was more than I could bear.Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
- 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
- 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 suffering
agony = intense suffering
agony = intense suffering
agonies = intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering (can be from mental or physical pain)
agony = intense suffering
agony = a state with intense suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering
agony = with intense feelings of suffering
agony = intense feelings of suffering