Both Uses of
agony
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- 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
Definition:
intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain