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- Something in Rufus which could not break shook him like a rag doll and splashed salt water all over his face and filled his throat and his nostrils with anguish.†
p. 87.7anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- Her delight in seeing her brother was so real that Vivaldo felt a kind of anguish, thinking of his own house, his own sister.†
p. 138.1
- He encounters, because he must encounter, those people who see his secrecy before they see anything else, and who drag these secrets out of him; sometimes with the intention of using them against him, sometimes with more benevolent intent; but, whatever the intent, the moment is awful and the accumulating revelation is an unspeakable anguish.†
p. 199.4
- Had he known where that day would lead him would he have writhed as he did, in such an anguished joy, beneath the great weight of his first lover?†
p. 206.4
- It was not merely his body they had used, but something else; his infirmity had made him the receptacle of an anguish which he could scarcely believe was in the world.†
p. 211.1anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- This anguish rendered him helpless, though it also lent him his weird, doomed grace and power, and it baffled him and set the dimensions of his trap.†
p. 211.1
- For never let it be said, she thought, now really in the teeth of irreality and anguish, that I don't lay my cards on the table.†
p. 284.2
- And beneath all this was the void where anguish lived and questions crouched, which referred only to Vivaldo and to no one else on earth.†
p. 305.9
- But I don't really feel that—terror—and that anguish and that joy I've sometimes felt with—a few men.†
p. 336.9 *
- She could not bear the anguish in his eyes, and she looked away.†
p. 370.6
- He would never understand it, she would merely have given him an anguish which he would never be able to handle.†
p. 372.9
- The center of her mind was filled with the sight and sound of Richard's anguish.†
p. 376.9
- Her sex, which afforded him his entry, would nevertheless remain strange to him, an incitement and an anguish, and an everlasting mystery.†
p. 385.7
- "I'm beginning to think," she said, "that growing just means learning more and more about anguish.†
p. 405.8
- And yet, at the same time, as he stood helpless and stupid in the kitchen which had abruptly become immortal, or which, in any case, would surely live as long as he lived, and follow him everywhere, his heart began to beat with a newer, stonier anguish, which destroyed the distance called pity and placed him, very nearly, in her body, beside that table, on the dirty floor.†
p. 426.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)