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Sentences ending with agony

An', Jane Withersteen, you crossed it long ago to ease poor Milly's agony. [13]
Amid the crowd was a dark, handsome youth, in Andalusian garb, who seemed to fix on her an eye of agony. [4]
They seemed to Virginia, standing motionless in the ball, to give out the very chords of agony. [9]
The doctor was very much displeased about something and made a change in the dressings, turning the wounded man over so that he groaned again and grew unconscious and delirious from the agony. [2]
She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
And, in truth, this mighty sovereign, racked by almost unendurable pain, dealt cruelly enough with himself when he compelled his aching knee to bend until consciousness threatened to fail under the excess of agony. [10]
It was a thing beyond belief that one hour could have held such a store of agony. [9]
The bell in the tower began to clang, with heavy, relentless strokes --like physical blows from which she flinched--each stirring her reluctant, drowsy soul to a quicker agony. [9]
The Cure was the only person who had come to his mind when he became troubled to the point of actual mental agony. [11]
They represented him stretched upon the cross, his countenance distorted with agony. [5]

Short sentences using agony

An agony stirred the bed. [11]
Tom was in an agony. [5]
He groaned in agony. [4]
He prayed in agony. [11]
Oh spare him agony! [11]
Oh, agony! [5]
Agony? [5]

Sentences containing agony two or more times

If this was agony for me, I could see that it was keener agony for Farrar. [9]

More example sentences with the word agony in them

The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
He could not write about the sixteenth century any more than we could read about it, while the nineteenth was in the very agony and bloody sweat of its great sacrifice. [6]
And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
That devastating something would be agony to one who loved liberty and freedom--had not that ever been his watchword, liberty and freedom to do what he pleased in the world and with the world? [11]
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. [7]
After a long while the slamming of a coach door roused me, and I was straightway seized with such an agony of mind that I could have cried aloud. [9]
Two years during which a nation struggled in agony with sickness, and even the great strength with which she was endowed at birth was not equal to the task of throwing it off. [9]
You will understand when I tell you I have lived a life of agony ever since you became a candidate. [11]
Our eyes were wet when we reached the lower hall, and I was making for the door in an agony to leave the place, when the bailiff came out of his little office. [9]
To see her was the most exquisite agony in the world. [9]
My own agony was nigh beyond endurance, my will swinging like a pendulum from right to wrong, and back again. [9]
She threw herself upon the great couch in an agony of despair. [11]
Alencon Barre looked up, agony twitching his nostrils and a dry white line on his lips. [11]
They keep always trying to make your bed before you get up, thus destroying your rest and inflicting agony upon you; but after you get up, they don't come any more till next day. [5]
He had been told that it was to-morrow, and not to-day, that the hideous act would be accomplished; and it was a consolation to her to know that he was spared the agony of following her in fancy in her fearful progress. [10]
It enabled him to keep the wonderful record of never having lost his temper, no matter what agony he had to bear. [7]
He snatched her to his breast, and kissed her twice in a very agony of joy, then let her go. [11]
All who had to do with Egypt gained except herself, and if she moved in revolt or agony, they threatened her. [11]
One whole day to cover ten miles--an endless path of agony, in which Jim went down again and again, but came up blinded by snow and drift, and cut as with lashes by the angry wind. [11]
From time to time the outbursts of rage and agony of despairing men, and horrible jeering laughter, drowned the voices of the flocks of birds and the roaring of the tempestuous sea. [10]
Detricand saw that this was not acting, that it was a supreme terror, an awful momentary aberration; for the traitor's eyes were wildly staring, the mouth was drawn in agony, the hands were now rigidly clutching an imaginary something, the body stiffened where it crouched. [11]
The thought that this splendid creature had once courted her, loved her, kissed her--that he had once been hers, and that she had lost him to another, was a pang like physical agony, mounting from her heart to her brain. [10]
The breach of this law, even when the breach is known to be strictly accordant with true morality, has caused many a man more agony than a real crime. [1]
The agony of these thoughts was mitigated by the scorching hatred that had replaced her love, the desire for retaliation, revenge. [9]
I can speak the words out of my heart with gladness and agony, Monsieur," she urged, in a voice vibrating with feeling. [11]
Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the forehead; the supplicant may cry for mercy with that soundless voice the soul utters when its appeal is to the Invisible. [14]
Stephen turned to the open window, tears of intense agony in his eyes. [9]
As Charley saw the knotted brows, the staring eyes, the clinched hands, the figure of the woodsman rigid in its agony of remorse, he said to himself: "What right had I to save this man's life? [11]
And Louise was the happiest woman; for presently came a letter from Washington which said: "Rejoice with me, for the long agony is over! [5]
Ah, Jasmine, habit, the habit of enduring me, is not fixed, and in my exit there would be the agony of the moment, and then the comforting knowledge that I had done my best to set things right. [11]
Between the trenches the earth was torn and tortured, as though some sudden fossilizing process, in its moment of supreme agony, had fixed it thus. [9]
The agony was the breathing space we had while they crept nearer. [9]
Thrice distilled was the agony of those moments! [9]
And something of the agony of the woman's soul as she lay in torment, facing the wall, thinking of her son under the same roof, of a life misspent and irrevocable, I pictured. [9]
You can catch the agony in the queen's face through the curling smoke. [5]
It is well that the thoughtless critics, who spoke of the sad and gloomy views of life presented by the Brontes in their tales, should know how such words were wrung out of them by the living recollection of the long agony they suffered. [14]
Who can doubt that the refusal to fight a duel through fear has caused many men an agony of shame? [1]
The agony of that revelation was scarcely to be borne. [9]
I will not tell you what misery he underwent, what agony of soul he knew, how great his mental struggle was. [12]
She, who was taught by Epicurus to strive for freedom from pain and is so sensitive to the slightest bodily suffering, is still seeking a path which, with the least agony, will lead to the eternal rest for which she longs. [10]
The great voice swelled out in a passion of agony, then sank away into a note of despair that gripped the heart. [11]
It had but suffered for a moment the agony of delirium. [11]
This picture brought such an agony of pleasurable suffering that he worked it over and over again in his mind and set it up in new and varied lights, till he wore it threadbare. [5]
Her own name struck upon the listener's ear, coupled with some wish so fervent, that he seemed to breathe it in an agony of supplication. [12]
There was that strange, distant look of agony in her eyes, that transfiguring look in the face; there was the figure somehow gone slimmer in these few hours; and there was a frail appearance which did not belong to her. [11]
Why not have socialism right now, and cut out the agony? [9]
But the Captain smoked in agony until the clouds of two days slipped away from under the stars, for he was trying to decide a Question. [9]
Presently, upon the silence, her voice sharp with agony said: "I am a leper, and I go to that desert place which my lord has set apart for lepers, where, dead to the world, I shall watch the dreadful years come and go. [11]
Every word the sick man tried to speak cut his chest like a knife, and his eyes half started from his head with the agony of it. [11]
Amid his loud shrieks of agony one of Pompey's veterans shouted, 'Dead dogs no longer bite, but they howl when dying! [10]
Gardiner had his shoulders and I his legs; in an unfortunate moment I stumbled and the patient fell heavily on the bed in an agony of torture. [5]
The tackles were seized and the guns run out once more, and fired, and served again in an agony of haste. [9]
He had repeatedly said, that as long as there was life there was strength of will to do what it chose; and when the last agony came on, he insisted on assuming the position just mentioned. [14]
He saw how Ruth's beautiful face saddened when he was suffering, and with manly strength of will concealed inexpressible agony under a grateful smile. [10]
The boat skirted round and round the raft, started away--the agony of it!--returned, rested the oars, close at hand, listening, no doubt. [5]
How was it possible to frame a message that should be commercial on its face, and yet convey the deepest agony and devotion of the sender's heart? [4]
He had started, plainly in an agony of fear, when a sound came from beyond the wall that brought a cry to his lips. [9]
And she lingered, perversely resolved to steep herself in the agony. [9]
He saw a pale, almost unearthly, yet beautiful face, flushing and paling with a coming agony, looking up at him; and presently two trembling hands made those mystic signs which are the primal language of the soul. [11]
She had cried out in her agony, but she had not been swept out into chaos. [11]
Nor do father, or mother, or sister in their agony make any sound or sign. [9]
The sobbing agony of those whom Stafford had led rose up from the ground around him, and voices cried to be put out of pain and torture. [11]
In an agony of terror, Honora followed, her head on fire, her heart pounding faster than the hoof beats. [9]
In an agony of spirit, he sat down on the little couch beside the window and buried his face in his hands. [9]
Then an expression of something like agony crosses his face. [9]
It's leaped out of my agony. [13]
Two miles--two hours of incredible agony, now running, now leaning against a palm tree, now dropping to her knees, now fighting on and on, she came at last to the one spot in the world where she could die in peace. [11]
In the moment of her sharpest pain she did not forget the duties of her under office, but dried the dying man's moist forehead with her handkerchief, even while the dews of agony were glistening on her own. [6]
Unlike the manner of her people, Soada turned and went back into her house, and threw herself upon the mud floor, and put the folds of her garment in her mouth lest she should cry out in her agony. [11]
Her last cry of agony pierced the wounds of the mutilated man like a sharp lance-thrust. [10]
With a moan of agony he felt the dolorous flood above his shoulders, and then a cry pierced the gloom and the loathsome misery, and a voice he knew called to him, "David, David, I am coming! [11]
In that moment of agony came footsteps beating on the path, and by tacit consent our swords were still. [9]
Truly, the agony of a brave man is among the greatest of the world's tragedies to see. [9]
When you are not here, I lie in agony, lest she has suffered some mortal blow unknown to me, Jinny. [9]
Even he did not guess the agony in her heart. [9]
But I shall never forget my feelings before the agony left me, and I got up here to thank you for her for helping my daughter, by your kindness, to live through her first appearance. [5]
In spite of Ned's beseechings Clarence had ridden off on a wild thoroughbred colt and had left her to an afternoon of agony. [9]
It represented you, my Lord, on the cross, and your head bowed in agony, with its crown of thorns, was a very sorrowful sight. [10]
A rattle of musketry set me shivering, and in an agony of fright I looked behind me to discover that I could not be more than four hundred yards from the fort. [9]
In all this Mrs. Glow manifested a deep interest, and learned, by observing out of the corner of her eye, that Irene was in an agony of apprehension, which she tried to conceal under an increasing coolness of civility. [4]
The manes of Mr. Clay must have been in great agony till thirty days later, when "popular sovereignty" stood forth in all its glory. [7]
Night after night Mr. Carvel had lain awake with the agony of those Eastern debts. [9]
In it one moves in a dream, majestically unresponsive to all outward things, numb, unconcerned, disregarding all except one's own agony, which seems to neutralize the universe and reduce all life's problems to one formula of solution. [11]
Then ensued a moment's breathless hush, even the cries of those in agony lulling. [9]
M. Oh, tell me, tell me, dearie; don't keep me in agony. [5]
He would have married her in those days, if she had given the word, for her will was stronger than his own; but she had broken from him in an agony of rage and regret and despised love. [11]
I had not lost my senses, and was on my knees again immediately, ripping open Comyn's waistcoat with my left hand, and murmuring his name in an agony of sorrow. [9]
He had not long been lodged in the cell when there came a visit from Michael Clones, who stretched out his hands in an agony of humiliation. [11]
It's such a little thing and it means so much--so much agony to me. [9]
But many were left to die in agony in the solitude. [9]
I stood, I know not how long, listening to the groans that came through the wall, for Mrs. Temple was in agony. [9]
That Monday, too, it will be remembered, dawned in storm, the sleet hissing in the wide throats of the centre-chimneys, and bearing down great boughs of trees until they broke in agony. [9]
As for Austen, it sufficed him for the moment that he had been lifted, by another seeming caprice of fortune, to a seat of torture the agony whereof was exquisite. [9]
It is shameful, it is brutal, it is base, to bully and abuse an unprotected lady who has lost the use of her limbs and cannot put her feet to the floor without agony! [5]
Think that he is your father... perhaps in the agony of death. [2]
Kit made an involuntary start towards the door in his anxiety to answer for himself, but being speedily detained by the constable, had the agony of seeing Sampson Brass run out alone to tell the story in his own way. [12]
The sea roared in upon Plemont and Grosnez, battering the rocks in futile agony. [11]
Whilst I was in this agony of doubt and indecision, the drive suddenly came out on a shaded lawn dotted with flowering bushes. [9]
But the arrow in his neck choked his breath, and it was such agony to speak that he could only say hoarsely: "Father mother! [10]
There was agony in his lungs, and the time between each stroke was terrible, and yet the next came too soon. [11]

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