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
- But he had hardly moved at all when Don Quixote lost his footing; 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; and he hung so near the ground that he could just touch it with his feet, which was all the worse for him; for, finding how little was wanted to enable him to plant his feet firmly, he struggled and stretched himself as much as he could to gain a footing; just like thos†
Chpt 1.43-44
Definition:
intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain