All 24 Uses of

anguish

in

Frankenstein - 1831 version

We returned again, with torches; for I could not rest, when I thought that my sweet boy had lost himself, and was exposed to all the damps and dews of night; Elizabeth also suffered extreme anguish.
p. 74.2

anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress

He was conveyed home, and the anguish that was visible in my countenance betrayed the secret to Elizabeth.
p. 74.3

I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.
p. 77.0

No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air.
p. 78.6

During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.
p. 89.2

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.
p. 89.8

Elizabeth read my anguish in my countenance, and kindly taking my hand, said, "My dearest friend, you must calm yourself."
p. 96.5

He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
p. 102.0

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
p. 102.9

I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.
p. 137.9

When night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.
p. 138.3

My daily vows rose for revenge—a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.
p. 143.7

I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.
p. 159.5

Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
p. 162.3

I saw an insurmountable barrier placed between me and my fellow men; this barrier was sealed with the blood of William and Justine, and to reflect on the events connected with those names filled my soul with anguish.
p. 163.8

Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.
p. 164.4

...while every feature and every muscle was relaxed from anguish to pleasure.
p. 185.1 *

anguish = suffering

Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.
p. 186.1

anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress

Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
p. 187.2

Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.
p. 210.9

Sometimes, seized with sudden agony, he could not continue his tale; at others, his voice broken, yet piercing, uttered with difficulty the words so replete with anguish.
p. 212.8

Not the ten-thousandth portion of the anguish that was mine during the lingering detail of its execution.
p. 222.3

I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair.
p. 222.8

Definition:

extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)