All 5 Uses of
agony
in
The Princess Bride
- It was agony keeping her arms outstretched and her fingers spread when it was all so useless.†
p. 204..1 *
- I am in something close to agony but we can talk about that later.†
p. 215..3
- It simply hung now below the sky, an audible reminder of the existence of agony.†
p. 253..7
- You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.†
p. 255..5
- …hair and touching her skin of wintry cream and—and—and then his world exploded—because the cups, the cups were everywhere, and before, they had punished his body but left his brain, only not the Machine; the Machine reached everywhere—his eyes were not his to control and his ears could not hear her gentle loving whisper and his brain slid away, slid far from love into the deep fault of despair, hit hard, fell again, down through the house of agony into the county of pain.†
p. 263..1
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain