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  • why must I die and die in agony?   (source)
    agony = a state with intense suffering
  • I put my hand before my eyes, and cried out in agony, ...   (source)
    agony = intense feelings of suffering
  • He holds his eyes and rolls in agony.†   (source)
  • When the pain in his lungs overtook the pain of the burn, he would release the air in a great, gasping cry— a cry of relief for his lungs, of agony for his leg.†   (source)
  • Agony ripped her.†   (source)
  • His eyes were the color of agony, and weightless as he was, he was too heavy for his legs to carry.†   (source)
  • The half an hour of waiting is agony, but I do it.†   (source)
  • The snake's tail thrashed, narrowly missing Harry, and before Harry could shut his eyes, it turned — Harry looked straight into its face and saw that its eyes, both its great, bulbous yellow eyes, had been punctured by the phoenix; blood was streaming to the floor, and the snake was spitting in agony.†   (source)
  • His body writhed in agony.†   (source)
  • A howl builds up inside him, escaping his mouth, an inhuman sound born of an agony he can't describe.†   (source)
  • They were in agonies.†   (source)
  • In his agony he perceived the word "fire" and felt flames licking at the torn bone and flesh.†   (source)
  • He struggled to his feet, red-faced and gasping, and crashed to the floor in eye-bulging agony.†   (source)
  • The buggers had already beaten the main human fleet out in the comet shield, wiping out the earliest starships and making a mockery of human attempts at high strategy—that film was often shown, to arouse again and again the agony and terror of bugger victory.†   (source)
  • The aisle seemed to veer left, but when he moved left, it veered right, as though the sound in his ears was not the breaking strain of burning wood, but the agony of those great beams twisting.†   (source)
  • Remembered the crunching sound of Harold's death, the silence that followed, the agony in my ribs.†   (source)
  • I strained again to pull myself from the wreckage, in bonecracking, skin-ripping agony.†   (source)
  • But Lale can't help wondering how he can feel nothing for the people they have just seen, the agony of death inscribed on their faces and twisted bodies.†   (source)
  • The agony of her absence, and the emptiness of her room, was almost more than I could take.†   (source)
  • The bull-man roared in agony.†   (source)
  • Each time it's the same: my taste buds shrivel up and die, my skin goes beet red, my eyes well up with tears, my head feels like a house on fire, and my digestive tract starts to twist and groan in agony like a boa constrictor that has swallowed a lawn mower.†   (source)
  • He could not feel agony.†   (source)
  • But the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.†   (source)
  • Eager for the purifying effects of his own agony, Silas said a quick prayer.†   (source)
  • A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous.†   (source)
  • She put one foot in and jumped back from the icy streak of agony that shot into her leg.†   (source)
  • What agonies this woman endured, Marie-Laure cannot guess.†   (source)
  • She wanted to see that Owens kid, who she blamed for everything that had happened to her so far, writhing in miserable agony.†   (source)
  • I pulled it out as fast as I could, wincing as the sudden pressure drop dizzied me and made the wound in my side scream in agony.†   (source)
  • As the four-year-old sobs in agony, I know that he is the only one here who understands.†   (source)
  • Meg shrieked in agony.†   (source)
  • You know—the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it's agony.†   (source)
  • She pressed her hands against the blood, because that's what you were supposed to do, wasn't it, but he writhed and screamed in agony.†   (source)
  • It is remindful to me of my Loveless Lake days—without the agony of dating; and Loveless Lake is a dinky pond compared to Georgian Bay.†   (source)
  • Du, again, half an hour later, heard one long scream, like the screams he remembered of a man in agony.†   (source)
  • But school was still agony for the boys.†   (source)
  • The moans of agony amongst the clank of chains made a chorus as familiar as the dreary work songs they sang all day.†   (source)
  • He overreacted and jealousy got the best of him, but if he had just said those two words we would have been spared an entire month of emotional agony.†   (source)
  • The tramped grass was bathed in blood, as were the pen's weathered posts and the stiff white bodies of the sheep themselves, flung about in attitudes of sheepish agony.†   (source)
  • By then her agony was a fading memory.†   (source)
  • He screamed like he was terrified, like he was in agony.†   (source)
  • His gentle features, so like Gisa's, are twisted in agony.†   (source)
  • The birth of her children, which should be a woman's crowning glory, became for Ekwefi mere physical agony devoid of promise.†   (source)
  • As the needle went into my brother's arm and he screamed, my mother looked at me with agony written all over her face and assured me, "Next one doesn't hurt.†   (source)
  • Through the glass, I see the spy arch his back in agony.†   (source)
  • Now she would be in agonies of regret, and could not know what she had done to him.†   (source)
  • Consider a small pin driven into your skull, the agony of the piercing.†   (source)
  • The chant rose a tone in agony.†   (source)
  • THE NEXT DAY is agony.†   (source)
  • No use going through all that agony for a baby.†   (source)
  • ELIZABETH, in agony: My husband—is a goodly man, sir.†   (source)
  • She tried to figure out have caused such agony, but her faculties didn't yet.†   (source)
  • I recounted my final days with him and the agony of committing him to an extended care facility.†   (source)
  • He seemed to thrive on inflicting agony on the helpless.†   (source)
  • The agony of her hand on my sleeve.†   (source)
  • He was in agony from having to lie for hours in such an unusual and uncomfortable position.†   (source)
  • His face contorts in agony.†   (source)
  • Every second that passes feels like agony.†   (source)
  • That and the fact my body seems to be completely numb, though to look at me, at the leg that the 60 mph asphalt exfoliant has pared down to the bone, I should be in agony.†   (source)
  • I woke screaming in the middle of the night, in agony, terrified as the scar seared itself into my flesh.†   (source)
  • The first few steps sent an explosion of agony through him.†   (source)
  • Actually, he was in agony.†   (source)
  • The air filled with adrenaline-induced war cries from Redd's soldiers, agony-infused moans from the throats of King Nolan's men.†   (source)
  • Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution.†   (source)
  • Rano then pushed me and I struck the ground on my back with a loud thump and lost my breath, laying deathly still in suffocating agony, until I slowly gained it back.†   (source)
  • The flames on the thatched roofs waved us off as they danced with the afternoon breeze, swaying as if in agony.†   (source)
  • I had only to move my fingers a little and jab them into the soft tissues, gouge away his sight and give him more agony than he was giving me.†   (source)
  • Lenar Hoyt's face contorted in agony as his hands raked at his chest.†   (source)
  • The doctor sensed my agony and discussed the complications that could likely be expected in operating on a dog of Marley's age.†   (source)
  • We rode on in an endless agony of silence, but it was still a few hours before sunset when I heard voices calling "Greystone!" down the line.†   (source)
  • At some time in his life he had suffered terrible burns; his whole appearance was so tragic-looking, I couldn't imagine the agony he must have endured.†   (source)
  • Then all of them joined in kicking XXXXXXXXXX until he was writhing in agony on the floor.†   (source)
  • I was gripped in a sudden agony of despair as I considered that alternative.†   (source)
  • It suddenly occurred to me that my grandmother had walked around here and gazed upon this water many times, and the loneliness and agony that Hudis Shilsky felt as a Jew in this lonely southern town-far from her mother and sisters in New York, unable to speak English, a disabled Polish immigrant whose husband had no love for her and whose dreams of seeing her children grow up in America vanished as her life drained out of her at the age of forty-six-suddenly rose up in my blood and washed over me in waves.†   (source)
  • Whether you do or not, this list may be helpful: crucified, wounds in the hands, feet, side, and head in agony self-sacrificing good with children good with loaves, fishes, water, wine thirty-three years of age when last seen employed as carpenter known to use humble modes of transportation, feet or donkeys preferred believed to have walked on water often portrayed with arms outstretched known to have spent time alone in the wilderness believed to have ha†   (source)
  • Aunt Agony.†   (source)
  • In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days.†   (source)
  • Simon reads: What a morbid appetite for such sights, must exist in society, when so large an assemblage, in the present state of our roads, had collected, to witness the dying agony, of an unfortunate but criminal fellow being!†   (source)
  • Roll call was an agony.†   (source)
  • Jagged torn place in their spirits that lets the small flying agonies pass in and out.†   (source)
  • Jack Torrance cried these words out in both surprise and agony as he slapped his right hand against his blue chambray workshirt, dislodging the big, slowmoving wasp that had stung him.†   (source)
  • It is costing my family a lot of agony and energy, and I haven't even attended one day yet.†   (source)
  • She came near a stroke recently because of the agony she's gone through regarding inquiries into her mother's death and those cells.†   (source)
  • I was in a frenzy for a moment, not myself, insisting to him that the man's heart still beat, and I was in an agony to clamp onto him again.†   (source)
  • Agony swells within!†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter to him very much who he executes; one man's agony is like another's, one mother's tears are no wetter than anybody else's.†   (source)
  • There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.†   (source)
  • Then Lawrence Taylor pops to his feet and begins to scream and wave and clutch his helmet with both hands, as if in agony.†   (source)
  • He was rolling in agony on the deck, one eardrum ruptured, totally deafened.†   (source)
  • "All agony, no fun," I replied.†   (source)
  • She learned to take advantage of the slightest excuse for feeling ill, from a change in temperature to a shift in the pollen count, and to transform the least ache or pain into a full-blown agony.†   (source)
  • Eighty pushups and now this new kind of agony, which ended only when he said, very slowly, very quietly, "Recover."†   (source)
  • In the past comfort food meant half a chocolate cake and the agony that followed.†   (source)
  • Something so vile and disgusting, it would make them all blow their cookies and writhe in agony!†   (source)
  • The injury to Booth's leg had caused the tissue to swell up and create a seal that could not be broken without inflicting agony upon the patient and possibly worsening the injury.†   (source)
  • For his daughter it was perpetual agony.†   (source)
  • And the doctor confronted in the emergency room with a patient in agony and another hundred patients in a line down the corridor doesn't have hours.†   (source)
  • I remember the agony I was feeling.†   (source)
  • His world emptied of everything except that hand immersed in agony, the ancient face inches away staring at him.†   (source)
  • The lightbulb in the bathroom was blazing a white star in the mirror, and looking at it, I was surprised by how much pleasure and agony could burst from one's heart at the same time.†   (source)
  • I am in labor for seven hours, the agony so great in the last stretch that I wonder if it's possible to split in half.†   (source)
  • Whatever had brought it on, the agony was intense and unrelenting.†   (source)
  • Zu didn't flinch as the rifle was pointed in her face—by the way she was moaning, her eyes scrunched up and her yellow gloves curled over her ears in agony, I don't think she was seeing straight.†   (source)
  • Pavlo prolonged the agony a little longer while emptying his own bowl.†   (source)
  • Enter unannounced, gain his confidence, wait for an unguarded moment, take out the Zumwalt, shoot him three times in the viscera for maximum slowness of agony, put the gun in his hand to suggest a lonely man's suicide, write semi-coherent things on the mirror, leave Stover's car in Treadwell's garage.†   (source)
  • It wasn't exactly the agony of defeat.†   (source)
  • Even Judith, in her agony on the ground, could see him, fleetingly, as she was thrashed around screaming through the snow.†   (source)
  • Pain mushroomed into agony and all I could do was go stiff.†   (source)
  • His face conveyed such acute agony, while everyone else was cheering.†   (source)
  • A small rodent started squealing in agony.†   (source)
  • Something appeared in her face which had not been there before, a kind of passionate, triumphant rage and agony.†   (source)
  • The monkeys showed no facial expression, not even pain or agony.†   (source)
  • Such agony!†   (source)
  • The words echoed through my agony-filled mind, and then there was only darkness.†   (source)
  • "You were shot," Carlos adds, his voice full of agony.†   (source)
  • Sister Mary Joseph Praise lay in agony on her narrow cot.†   (source)
  • I was riveted to my father's agony.†   (source)
  • What agony!†   (source)
  • (In sudden angry, frightened agony) What's the matter with you, Walter†   (source)
  • It was agony keeping her arms outstretched and her fingers spread when it was all so useless.†   (source)
  • Ranchero music with its falsetto cries almost like an agony played out of a cheap radio somewhere in the nameless night.†   (source)
  • The need to relieve herself became an agony—it was mixed with thirst and fatigue, until she didn't know which was worse.†   (source)
  • Gray Stoddard—the thought brought with it an agony from which she flinched.†   (source)
  • Silence lay between them like an agony.†   (source)
  • All Weary could think of was the agony in his own feet.†   (source)
  • My world was going to be emptier and dryer, but the agony of having him intrude into every private second would be gone.†   (source)
  • The child was clearly dying, and in agony.†   (source)
  • His agony was terrifying, the piercing, unearthly howl with which he split the moonlit dark vibrating in its own impact for seconds afterward like a devastating shock.†   (source)
  • The winds had snapped two-hundred-year-old trees and ruined houses and lives in five states that day, but Goshen was the centerpiece of the agony.†   (source)
  • As he opened his mouth to shout, Cal felt something shove inside him, hot and strong, to smother his lungs, to squeeze his heart in a stunning agony of pain.†   (source)
  • Still, it's wrong to think of yourself when the person next to you is in so much agony and pain.†   (source)
  • Mahtob remained silent and patient although I knew she must have been in agony.†   (source)
  • Every step forward is like pushing against the air, lifting my legs an agony of slow movement.†   (source)
  • Lettie absorbed it in total defeat, her head bowed, her eyes on the floor, then her eyes closed in agony.†   (source)
  • He writhed in agony and she heard his screams of terror and pain.†   (source)
  • Astaroth's agony was deafening.†   (source)
  • His face, as seen through the flames, is a mask of pure agony.†   (source)
  • The street fills with echoes of his rage and agony.†   (source)
  • My mother was a very modest person, and this was going to be agony for her, sitting down in public, among strangers.†   (source)
  • But how shall I describe the picture of our Savior in a frame of marble over the altar at full length upon the Cross, in the agonies, and the blood dropping and streaming from his wounds?†   (source)
  • Refuse, and your agonies shall be unending.†   (source)
  • He is back in the hospital again back in B Ward the night of the burning Robbie Clay his friend a bachelor certified public accountant the joker always laughing his sister had committed him "First I was a certified public now I am publicly certified!" that night no jokes no laughter but an agony of sound the roaring of a bull Robbie had burned himself with matches a rag tied around his waist soaked in alcohol where had he gotten it?†   (source)
  • Where Mr. Viccars's sore had erupted near his neck, Jamie's rose in his armpit, and he cried piteously from the agony of it, holding his slender little arm far out to his side so as not to hurt himself by the pressure of his own flesh.†   (source)
  • He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.†   (source)
  • But just as she drew in breath to scream, as her vision began to gray with agony, his weight was off her.†   (source)
  • 33 THE NIGHT had been pure agony for Tom.†   (source)
  • Two out of every three of the boys who fought on this island of agony were killed or wounded.†   (source)
  • Not even getting staked could come close compared with the agony that ripped through Vlad.†   (source)
  • I go to bed one night, my life perfect, and then wake up in agony two days later in a hospital and my whole world is torn apart.†   (source)
  • My wings were mushed between us, but nothing mattered except that my brain had been replaced by a bursting nova of raw agony.†   (source)
  • I was in agony whenever I had to work with her.†   (source)
  • Because your thoughts, Zacharias, are a pit of agony.†   (source)
  • "Eugenides"—he heard her cool voice through the agony—"have I exceeded the restraints of tradition?†   (source)
  • From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.†   (source)
  • Hearing this, Wilbur threw himself down in an agony of pain and sorrow.†   (source)
  • He looked at me, still laughing with agony.†   (source)
  • It had not entered; there would be no return to the agonies of Port Noir.†   (source)
  • Tefu would be in an agony of indecision.†   (source)
  • Or would it start at my feet and gradually work its way up my legs, over my body, and zero in right on my head in a brilliant, searing flash of agony before everything went dark?†   (source)
  • In his work he had to read over, and he often found it to be an operation of despoliation and agony.†   (source)
  • She fell back beating the air with her forelegs, her sight blasted by inner lightnings, her mind in agony.†   (source)
  • Hearing her agony, Russell slid closer to Mother, as if she might collapse at any second.†   (source)
  • As she looked at the sheets of figures announcing losses and more losses, she did not think of the long, senseless agony of the Mexican venture.†   (source)
  • During that year of agony and the following year of my grieving, everything stopped for me.†   (source)
  • Even with empty stomachs, we vomited out our agony.†   (source)
  • You do stupid, dangerous things, and every time you go away, I pray in agony that you'll come back.†   (source)
  • Natalie shouted, pressing the sides of her head with her hands as if she were in agony.†   (source)
  • JANE Well, thank God you don't have to go through that agony.†   (source)
  • It was not a thought-shape; it had no real foam; it was sheer distress, like a cry of agony.†   (source)
  • Jerk and agony, jerk and agony.†   (source)
  • I thought, What am I, an agony aunt?†   (source)
  • Heafstaag howled in agony and launched a backhand swing in retaliation.†   (source)
  • The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ....and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself — ultimate cost for perfect value.†   (source)
  • The steel frame groaned like a living beast in mortal agony, and perhaps minor welds broke with sounds as loud and sharp as gunshots.†   (source)
  • All those years of sweat, of agony, of having someone screaming that you can't do something but actually expecting that you will do it better than anyone ever has.†   (source)
  • My anger at him melted away at the sight of that smile, and the agony of not being able to communicate with him returned.†   (source)
  • I thought he would be an easy mark, being stiff, paralyzed, but of course the agony was mine.†   (source)
  • Phil looked down the row of guys with a look that was a mixture of craziness, agony, and Satan himself.†   (source)
  • He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.†   (source)
  • He saw the first bloody dead, heard the first agony.†   (source)
  • He wasn't just teary; he was shaking with sobs, his mouth stretched wide in agony, his hands convulsively clutching his kneecaps.†   (source)
  • Finally, there was a moan, and then a cough, and then the first screams of agony and terror.†   (source)
  • The minutes, or hours, or centuries, it took us to get there were my own personal agony.†   (source)
  • I could not help or even sympathize with the agony of being too well born, too well bred, or too well named.†   (source)
  • This time she told them about the long agony of the Middle Passage on the old slave ships, about the black horror of the holds, about the chains and the whips.†   (source)
  • "Don't let's prolong the agony," she said.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: The Scapegoat's Agony.†   (source)
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