All 17 Uses of
agony
in
Sons and Lovers
- And now that he felt he had to go out into life, he went through agonies of shrinking self-consciousness.†
Chpt 1.5
- Then came an agony of new shame.†
Chpt 2.7agony = intense suffering
- His mother saw on him the marks of some agony, and she said nothing.†
Chpt 2.8
- As he stooped to kiss his mother, she threw her arms round his neck, hid her face on his shoulder, and cried, in a whimpering voice, so unlike her own that he writhed in agony: "I can't bear it.†
Chpt 2.8
- It was agony to him.†
Chpt 2.12
- It was a moment intense almost to agony.†
Chpt 2.12
- It was an agony to know he would leave her, but it was almost an agony to have him near her.†
Chpt 2.13
- It was an agony to know he would leave her, but it was almost an agony to have him near her.†
Chpt 2.13
- He heard Dawes's heavy panting, like a wild beast's, then came a kick on the knee, giving him such agony that he got up and, quite blind, leapt clean under his enemy's guard.†
Chpt 2.13
- Pure instinct brought his hands to the man's neck, and before Dawes, in frenzy and agony, could wrench him free, he had got his fists twisted in the scarf and his knuckles dug in the throat of the other man.†
Chpt 2.13
- But he only fell on his knees at the bedside, and buried his face in the bedclothes, crying in agony, and saying: "Mother—mother—mother!"†
Chpt 2.13
- When she felt it coming, the agony, she cried to him: "Don't think of it, Paul!†
Chpt 2.13
- It made him pant with terror, agony, and love.†
Chpt 2.14
- She could not kiss his agony.†
Chpt 2.14
- She kissed his face, and roused his blood, while his soul was apart writhing with the agony of death.†
Chpt 2.14
- He stood still, rigid, with clenched fists, a flame of agony going over him.†
Chpt 2.15
- The real agony was that he had nowhere to go, nothing to do, nothing to say, and WAS nothing himself.
Chpt 2.15 *
Definition:
intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain