All 8 Uses of
agony
in
The Idiot
- He had kept but one idea before him all day, and for that he had worked in an agony of anxiety and a fever of suspense.†
Chpt 1.15 *agony = intense suffering
- Well, because of that moment of bitter suffering, perhaps the Saviour will pardon her other faults, for one cannot imagine a greater agony.†
Chpt 2.2
- The sight of the portrait face alone had filled his heart full of the agony of real sympathy; and this feeling of sympathy, nay, of actual SUFFERING, for her, had never left his heart since that hour, and was still in full force.†
Chpt 3.2
- This marvellous beauty they strive to preserve even in His moments of deepest agony and passion.†
Chpt 3.6
- The face was depicted as though still suffering; as though the body, only just dead, was still almost quivering with agony.†
Chpt 3.6
- All those faithful people who were gazing at the cross and its mutilated occupant must have suffered agony of mind that evening; for they must have felt that all their hopes and almost all their faith had been shattered at a blow.†
Chpt 3.6
- never would he banish the recollection of this meeting with her, and he never remembered it but with the same pain and agony of mind.†
Chpt 3.10
- He has not had a drop for three days; he must be suffering agonies—The general now entered the room, threw the door wide open, and stood on the threshold trembling with indignation.†
Chpt 4.2
Definition:
intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain