All 6 Uses
agony
in
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- Even with empty stomachs, we vomited out our agony.†
Chpt 3 *agony = intense suffering
- For so many months, walking had been agony, but right then I felt like Yao Niang, the first tiny-footed lady.†
Chpt 5
- They would never know the agony of footbinding.†
Chpt 13
- But we kept going, never looking back, burying shame in our empty hearts, shutting out the sounds of agony and sorrow as best we could.†
Chpt 15
- Through her agony she spoke.†
Chpt 18
- Pain exists at many levels: the physical agony that Snow Flower endured, the sorrow at seeing her suffer and believing that I couldn't bear another moment, the torturous regret I felt for the things I had said to her eight years ago—and to what purpose?†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)