All 13 Uses of

anguish

in

Go Tell It on the Mountain

He watched her face, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him.†
Chpt 1.1 *

anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress

And now she watched, one hand in the water, the other, in a kind of anguish, at her waist, which was circled still by the improvised apron of the morning.†
Chpt 1.1

She knew that Gabriel rejoiced, not that her humility might lead her to grace, but only that some private anguish had brought her low: her song revealed that she was suffering, and this her brother was glad to see.†
Chpt 2.1

She was not weeping for her daughter's future, she was weeping for the past, and weeping in an anguish in which Florence had no part.†
Chpt 2.1

Fury and anguish filled him, unbearable, unanswerable; his mind was stretched to breaking.†
Chpt 2.1

Then it seemed that there was weeping everywhere, waters of anguish riding the world; Gabriel weeping, and rain beating on the roof, and at the windows, and the coffee dripping from the end of the table.†
Chpt 2.2

"Yes," he said, glad even in his anguish to hear the words fall from his lips, "that was my son.†
Chpt 2.2

She screamed in anguish when he put her from him and turned to go, and she had to be carried to the train.†
Chpt 2.3

How could she fail to pray that He would have mercy on her son, and spare him the sin-born anguish of his father and his mother.†
Chpt 2.3

Slow tears rose to her eyes: of joy, for what she had come to; of anguish, for the road that had brought her here.†
Chpt 2.3

This power had struck John, in the head or in the heart; and, in a moment, wholly, filling him with an anguish that he could never in his life have imagined, that he surely could not endure, that even now he could not believe, had opened him up; had cracked him open, as wood beneath the;ixe cracks down the middle, as rocks break up; had ripped him and felled him in a moment, so that John had not felt the wound, but only the agony, had not felt: the fall, but only the fear; and lay here, now, helpless, screaming, at the very bottom of darkness.†
Chpt 3.1

Then the anguish subsided for a moment, as water withdraws briefly to dash itself once more against the rocks: he knew that it subsided only to return.†
Chpt 3.1

The stripes they had endured would scar his back, their punishment would be his, their portion his, his their humiliation, anguish, chains, their dungeon his, their death his.†
Chpt 3.1

Definition:

extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)