All 11 Uses of
anguish
in
Sons and Lovers
- This terror came in from the shrieking of the tree and the anguish of the home discord.†
Chpt 1.4anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- They lay with their hearts in the grip of an intense anguish.†
Chpt 1.4
- She always felt a mixture of anguish in her love for him.
Chpt 1.4 *anguish = distress
- It seemed to him a bitter humiliation and an anguish to go through.†
Chpt 1.5anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- She madly wanted her little brother of four to let her swathe him and stifle him in her love; she went to church reverently, with bowed head, and quivered in anguish from the vulgarity of the other choir-girls and from the common-sounding voice of the curate; she fought with her brothers, whom she considered brutal louts; and she held not her father in too high esteem because he did not carry any mystical ideals cherished in his heart, but only wanted to have as easy a time as he could, and his meals when he was ready for them.†
Chpt 2.7
- If she were getting over a stile, she gripped his hands in a little hard anguish, and began to lose her presence of mind.†
Chpt 2.7
- The slightest grossness made her recoil almost in anguish.†
Chpt 2.7
- It was a moment of anguish.†
Chpt 2.11
- It was the anguish of combining the living self with the shell.†
Chpt 2.12
- It was the other man's mouth he was dying to get at, and the desire was anguish in its strength.†
Chpt 2.13
- For her, the anguished sweetness of self-sacrifice.†
Chpt 2.15
Definition:
extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)