All 10 Uses of
agony
in
The Rainbow Trail
- Then followed a time that was hell—worse than fire, for fire would have given merciful death—agony under which his physical being began spasmodically to jerk and retch—and his eyeballs turned and his breast caved in.†
Chpt 8
- But, more likely, it was her agony that bound the court into silence which grew painful.†
Chpt 10 *
- The tragic beauty of her, the certainty of some monstrous crime to youth and innocence, the presence of an agony and terror that unfathomably seemed not to be for herself—these transfixed the court and the audience, and held them silenced, till she reached out blindly and then sank in a heap to the floor.†
Chpt 10
- It was her fate that had drawn him; and now it was her agony, her innocence, her beauty, that bound him for all time.†
Chpt 11
- He divined a crime—he had seen her agony.†
Chpt 12
- One year of agony—that shall not ruin your life.†
Chpt 13
- And it came to him after a time that he was not alone in his vigil, nor was Fay Larkin alone in her agony.†
Chpt 13
- Her face held a white, mute agony, as if in the hour of strife it had hardened into marble.†
Chpt 13
- In the old grandfather's agony, in the wild chant of the stricken grandmother, in the brother's stern and terrible calmness Shefford felt more than the death of a loved one.†
Chpt 14
- And he remembered with a start the agony of toil and peril Venters had endured bringing the progenitors of this stock into the valley.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain