All 10 Uses of
anguish
in
Jane Eyre
- Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.†
Chpt 2
- "Nothing, indeed," thought I, as I struggled to repress a sob, and hastily wiped away some tears, the impotent evidences of my anguish.†
Chpt 4 *
- I gazed on it with gloom and pain: nothing soft, nothing sweet, nothing pitying, or hopeful, or subduing did it inspire; only a grating anguish for HER woes — not MY loss — and a sombre tearless dismay at the fearfulness of death in such a form.†
Chpt 21
- I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever.†
Chpt 23
- I looked at my love: that feeling which was my master's — which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr. Rochester's arms — it could not derive warmth from his breast.†
Chpt 26
- Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion.†
Chpt 27
- Withdraw, then, — I consent; but remember, you leave me here in anguish.†
Chpt 27
- "Oh, Jane! my hope — my love — my life!" broke in anguish from his lips.†
Chpt 27
- I sank on the wet doorstep: I groaned — I wrung my hands — I wept in utter anguish.†
Chpt 28
- I asked of God, at once in anguish and humility, if I had not been long enough desolate, afflicted, tormented; and might not soon taste bliss and peace once more.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)