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- Anguish!†
Book 1anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- Anguish!†
Book 1
- In her anguish over her child, she seemed to forget everyone else, even her husband.†
Book 1
- That next corner would be haven or bay, and as he neared it, he burst into the anguished spring of a flagging quarry— —Where?†
Book 1 *
- "Mama!" his voice trailed off in anguished abandonment.†
Book 1
- With stiff, tranced body, he groped blindly toward the vague outline of a railing before a basement, and leaning his brow against the cold iron wept in anguish too great to bear.†
Book 1anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- Neither Annie, who never hobbled past without sticking out her awl-like tongue, nor Yussie's reiterated, "Cry-baby," nor the cellar-door at the end of the vacant hallway were half as painful to endure as the stiff anguish in his mother's face or the numb silence of the hours of waiting for his father.†
Book 1
- Her voice dwindled with anguish.†
Book 1
- His mother's face was unchanged as though that anguished look were caught in stone.†
Book 1
- His mother's fixed, unseeing stare, her trembling lips, trembling as if to an inner speech, was anguish enough for him to bear without the added humiliation of having Yussie notice it "Yuh goin'?" he invited.†
Book 1anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- She picked up the drawers at her feet and wrung them in the frenzy of her anguish.†
Book 2
- Else why does He visit me with anguish great as this?†
Book 2
- With a groan of anguish, he turned on his side hardly feeling the warm padlock under his cheek.†
Book 3
- But little by little the anguish lifted, his blood thawed, the sobbing calmed.†
Book 3
- Pent breath pressed veins in anguished bulges against his throat.†
Book 4
- And of the silence that followed the beating of her heart condensed the anguish into intervals.†
Book 4anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- A tortured, anguished voice babbled within him.†
Book 4
- Once more his anguished eyes beseeched the window, and then a fit of horrible rage convulsed him and he writhed and beat the wall beside him.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)