Both Uses of
anguish
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish.†
Chpt 2 *anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)