All 8 Uses

agony
in
Year of Wonders
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Where Mr. Viccars's sore had erupted near his neck, Jamie's rose in his armpit, and he cried piteously from the agony of it, holding his slender little arm far out to his side so as not to hurt himself by the pressure of his own flesh.†
Chpt 5 *

agony = intense suffering
Mary screamed and shook with the agony, and I felt scalding sweat running down my own back.†
Chpt 7
But this pain he gave himself must have been the agony of Hellfire.†
Chpt 9
There would be no other relief for me; in my two hands I held my only chance of exit from our village and its agonies.†
Chpt 9
Brand, who had lived with the Merrills since his return with Maggie Cantwell, had taken five-year-old Seth away to the sheepfold, to do some necessary chores but also to get the boy out of sight of his father's agony.†
Chpt 10

agony = intense suffering
To reach down a crock from a high shelf was a vast effort; to draw a pail of water an agony, and so I had to contrive new ways to go about the simplest of tasks.†
Chpt 11
Perhaps he fainted from the agony in his hands and so did not feel the seeping cold stealing over his body and slowing his heart until it stopped.†
Chpt 11
If we have dune anything at all here, we have succeeded in confining this agony amongst us.†
Chpt 14

Definitions:

(1) (agony)
intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)