All 4 Uses of
anguish
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Evidently, he desired this prick of a trifling anguish, in order to assure himself, by that quality which he best knew to be real, that the garden, and the seven weather-beaten gables, and Hepzibah's scowl, and Phoebe's smile, were real likewise.†
Chpt 10anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- —its dark, low-studded rooms—its grime and sordidness, which are the crystallization on its walls of the human breath, that has been drawn and exhaled here in discontent and anguish?†
Chpt 12 *
- —that it has left no anguish in my bosom, from that day to this, amidst all the prosperity with which Heaven has blessed me?†
Chpt 15
- It was now far too late in Clifford's life for the good opinion of society to be worth the trouble and anguish of a formal vindication.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)