All 3 Uses of
agony
in
Don Quixote
- His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- Yet ever in my agony it seems To me that neither Heaven nor Chloris hears.†
Chpt 1.33-34 *agony = intense suffering
- and slipping off the saddle, he would have come to the ground, but for being suspended by the arm, which caused him such agony that he believed either his wrist would be cut through or his arm torn off;†
Chpt 1.43-44
Definition:
intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain