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Definition
intense feelings of suffering — can be from mental or physical pain
- Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness.p. 86.5
- Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit, had I risked the experiment while under the empire of generous or pious aspirations, all must have been otherwise, and from these agonies of death and birth, I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend.p. 89.2
There are no more uses of "agony" in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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