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- Titch bade me rest, anguished over his miscalculation, though he did not say it aloud.†
p. 82.2
- "I am sorry," Mister Philip said with a look of anguish.†
p. 87.9anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- Seeing his cousin's dark form in tatters there, his face filled with anguish.†
p. 113.5
- My chest ached with anguish and wonder, an astonishment that went on and on, and I could not catch my breath.†
p. 119.6
- He sat up, rubbing at his cheeks, and for a moment I glimpsed in him the anguish of the earlier evening.†
p. 132.1 *
- And then all at once Titch was gripping the man's hands, and with a look of shock and even anguish the man grabbed back at him, and they held on, laughing quietly to each other.†
p. 177.7
- He hugged his father, held on with a kind of anguish, while Mister Wilde patted at his back, openly embarrassed by his son's affections.†
p. 182.7
- I understood he was anguished over his father—over his failure to ever impress the man, over how to explain that Philip had killed himself and that we were now in hiding.†
p. 193.9
- Whatever else they had discussed, it had raised in him a deep anguish.†
p. 197.1anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- He turned to me, and I saw the anguish in his eyes.†
p. 197.5
- And yet it had been nearly a week, and with each waking disappointment my anguish had grown.†
p. 231.8
- What a strange journey we embarked upon that afternoon, full of anguish and desire and wonder.†
p. 237.2
- No greater anguish.†
p. 264.7
- Rearing back, he clutched in anguish at his face and I shoved him off then, kicking at him, crawling to my knees and panting fiercely for breath.†
p. 274.8
- Peering at the second man, an anguish came over me.†
p. 334.4
- "Is it because you feel my father stole your idea?" said Tanna, her voice anguished, her face calm.†
p. 351.2
- But a part of me felt also somehow anguished, ravaged, torn at.†
p. 354.9
- Perhaps it was a question of his mental fortitude: she too saw the anguish in his eyes and did not wish to tax him further, knowing that our surprise arrival here would be strain enough.†
p. 363.8anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- "Titch," I said sharply, and it surprised me, the depth of the anguish in my voice.†
p. 372.7
- And that, it seemed to me clearly, was the more obvious anguish—that life had never belonged to any of us, even when we'd sought to reclaim it by ending it.†
p. 382.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)