All 5 Uses
agony
in
Howards End
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- Her friend had vanished in agony, but not, she believed, in degradation.†
Part 12 *agony = intense suffering
- Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love—a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with his image.†
Part 40
- Troubles enough lay ahead of her—the loss of friends and of social advantages, the agony, the supreme agony, of motherhood, which is not even yet a matter of common knowledge.†
Part 40
- Troubles enough lay ahead of her—the loss of friends and of social advantages, the agony, the supreme agony, of motherhood, which is not even yet a matter of common knowledge.†
Part 40
- He loitered away another night of agony.†
Part 41
Definitions:
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(1)
(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)