All 8 Uses of
agony
in
The Pit and the Pendulum
- ] I WAS sick—sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me.†
- The agony of suspense grew at length intolerable, and I cautiously moved forward, with my arms extended, and my eyes straining from their sockets, in the hope of catching some faint ray of light.†
- To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.†
- I half smiled in my agony as I thought of such application of such a term.†
- Even amid the agonies of that period, the human nature craved food.†
- I had but escaped death in one form of agony, to be delivered unto worse than death in some other.
*agony = intense suffering
- A deeper glow settled each moment in the eyes that glared at my agonies!†
- I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair.†
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain