How To Use Agony In A Sentence
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'I'll run to them immediately,' cried she, 'for my half guinea is in an agony to be gone!'
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
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For some, there was the agony of uncertainty about marital fidelity at home.
A Channel of Peace
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Recovering slowly, with agony, from each of these recurrent blows, his unquenchable exuberance had lived.
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A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
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My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind.
Flowers in the Desert
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The pain, agony and exhaustion were replaced by an enormous sense of achievement and relief as they crossed the finishing line.
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Doctors said that both women were suffering from tension and mental agony, but were physically fine.
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I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt.
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The agony is not quite as exquisite as it has been in the past.
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He lay in agony until the doctor arrived.
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The animal, being unable to advance, was lifting his legs up and down (doing the _piaffer_), and sighing and groaning in agony.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
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I could see his face, could see its changing passions, progenitive agony, frustration and delight.
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
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IT'S pure agony for the families - and has spawned the next generation of conspiracy theorists.
The Sun
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Earlier expressionists turned to tribal art to find the inspiration to distort the body in ways that could convey modern despair and agony.
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I realized that one of the ways we can truly understand the agony and several abuses on the Vagina by men and women alike is to see through the eyes of a Vagina.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The voices from the archways and beneath the flags tones cried out briefly, all at once, in agony.
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Victims were vomiting, writhing in agony and screaming that they felt their heads were about to explode.
The Sun
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There are players writhing around in agony yet television replays showed there was absolutely no contact.
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We all know the agony of returning to a sun-drenched car on a scorcher.
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A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
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One stoical person’s mild twinge is another, more sensitive patient’s agony.
On a scale of one to ten...
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All this can make assisted suicide seem a reasonable escape from inevitable agony.
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They drove away leaving the unfortunate Tiller writhing in agony.
A SEASON IN HELL
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Its twisted trunk and mangled branches resembled a terrifyingly gaunt person arching their back in immense agony.
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She bellowed in pain and fell to the floor in agony.
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‘Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man’ is one of my personal faves: the agony is actually palpable.
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Villa may prolong the agony but will be no great loss to the Premier League.
The Sun
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So much goes unsaid: and for some the agony of what's unsaid is almost unbearable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sanjeet screamed in agony, pain searing throughout his entire body.
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KAREN STOP IT I am still emotionally recuperation from the LAST non-YA novel you gushed about (The Vintner's Luck hush it took me a while to find and then I had to wait in agony for it to arrive by post)
Adult Fic, I Read That Too
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Well the poor mutt ran away howling in pain and agony and he scampered shiveringly to a refuge in a deserted shack.
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But it will be her agony aunt writings that - in a thousand unnoted homes - may have done the most good.
Times, Sunday Times
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The agony aunt's first quest is to help golf widow Joy to persuade husband Martin to spend more time with her and their three children.
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It rises naturally to a suffering man's lips as expressive of agony, though not exactly framed for _his_ individual _agony_.
Autobiographical Sketches
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He refused and prolonged her agony for a further four months.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the black smoke of the granary belching against the white hills, or the kyloe, houghed and maimed, roaring in its agony, or the fugitive brought bloody on his knees among the rocks -- God's mercy!
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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He also refused to take painkillers while working because he said they dulled his performance and he must have been in agony.
The Sun
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The agony and shame in his face, in his deep chocolate brown orbs, drunk or not, was real.
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Villa may prolong the agony but will be no great loss to the Premier League.
The Sun
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an agony of doubt
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She did not manage to get the word "insane" out, for another wave of agony hit her, far worse than the previous.
Dark Allies
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Late at night I heard screams, not of pain, but of sheer agony, coming from the floors below.
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Few suffer the agony of Johanna Young's parents and find that their worst nightmare has become a reality.
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The situation is frightful, but it's just piling on the agony to keep discussing it.
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Infection; Misfortunes may be catching as well as Sickness; leave me alone to my Sighs and Tears; stay not at all, lest my unweary Tongue pronounce your Ruin; leave me, I say, that I may gently expire without the Agony of seeing you undone.
Exilius
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The main picture would show the agony and the ecstasy in the player's face; the inset would show the dartboard.
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Public debate and political competition (agon was the Greek word, which gives us our "agony") were the norm in democratic Athens.
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Why is the eurozone prolonging the agony?
The Sun
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Where are the bodies writhing in synchronised agony?
Times, Sunday Times
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For some, there was the agony of uncertainty about marital fidelity at home.
A Channel of Peace
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When you're an agony aunt you have a huge responsibility to your readers, and I wasn't about to shirk mine.
RESCUING ROSE
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With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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The scene, so highly interesting to those who witnessed it, was to him insupportable, and he had left the room in agony, bitterly inveighing against his own folly, for having suffered it to take place, and secretly denouncing future vengeance upon the usurper of his rights, for so he basely termed the artless Yamboo.
Yamboo; or, the North American Slave
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Do we have to burden them with the agony of introspection at such a tender age?
The Sun
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QE may end up prolonging the euro agony, not fixing it.
Times, Sunday Times
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No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.
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He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces.
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You prolong the agony in the name of love.
Times, Sunday Times
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His conscience at once spoke out, and in the agony of his remorse he had resort to a hermit who bade him renounce the world, grave for himself a cell in the face of the melaphyre clay -- the hermit did not give to the rock its mineralogical name -- and await a token from heaven that he was forgiven.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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She was in agony and had to be carried away on a stretcher to an ambulance after her ski jump went disastrously wrong.
The Sun
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And on the Cross he cried out in agony, quoting a psalm that speaks of divine abandonment.
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Then they laughed as she screamed in agony from the corrosive chemical burns intended to destroy evidence.
The Sun
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A FORMER financial agony aunt has been left virtually penniless after a costly divorce battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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A major inquiry has been launched at Catterick Garrison by the military police after the victim was left groaning in agony.
The Sun
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He is a modest shirt-sleeved fiftyish guy who says dramatic things in an offhand undramatic manner and is frank about his hesitancy, uncertainty, and agony on certain matters.
How the End Begins
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Bored and whimsical, he indulges an idle, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach; then he is transfigured by epiphanic agony as the older man falls in love with the younger.
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I was in an agony of doubt.
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Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle.
Mary Barton
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Either scenario could simply prolong the agony of the Rock - and the government.
Times, Sunday Times
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He fell and grovelled in agony as the driver lashed him repeatedly about the head and body.
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They suffered the agony of watching him burn to death.
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It was an illuminating moment of exquisite agony still vivid these many years later.
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Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.
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This long drawn-out agony... sometimes I wonder if doctors really know what they're about.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Then he sat down and typed a letter to every agony aunt he had ever heard of.
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She spent 18 minutes in agony despite pressing the emergency buzzer on her pendant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Footage showed the man writhing in agony as the tigers passed him between them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spring came to the Bad Lands in fits and numerous false starts, first the "chinook," uncovering the butte-tops between dawn and dusk, then the rushing of many waters, the flooding of low bottom-lands, the agony of a world of gumbo, and, after a dozen boreal setbacks, the awakening of green things and the return of a temperature fit for human beings to live in.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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Strength of iron flowing in her veins allow her to conquer agony.
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Many of them were dying, and a German ambulanceman went among them, injecting them with morphine to ease the agony which made them writhe and groan.
Now It Can Be Told
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She had barely noticed his agony and she had certainly not experienced overwhelming desire.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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The Mediterranean members of the euro will now suffer the agony of austerity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why, because I am a girl, should the poor lady be traiked all over the world in an agony of dispeace?
Patsy
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The _bambino_, to express his agony, was _grinning from ear to ear_.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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But the agony and anguish remain - as does the hope.
The Sun
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They were unavailable for comment yesterday but have talked previously about the agony of not hearing anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sobbed into the snow, not being able to bear the agony any longer.
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Surely the world cannot stand idly by and let this country go through the agony of war yet again?
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The creature roared in agony, thrashing about and spewing gouts of blood, until it lay quivering in a pool of its own gore.
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Born as a result of a curse, she lives an accursed, wasteful, unproductive life of pain and loneliness, and dies in loneliness and in intolerable agony.
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In fact, all the characters in the film feel so strongly about the agony of ordinary existence, and find their lives so asphyxiating, that escape, in whatever form it takes, becomes their oxygen.
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If so, it won't save the dollar, only prolong the agony.
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Murphy's mother's agony is laid bare in the gut-wrenching 911 call heralding the death of actress.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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Does the former nurse and Britain's one-time most famous agony aunt have any advice for our fearful nation?
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For one moment she dropped her mask and the clawing agony was plain to see.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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The remarkable girl was struggling against the agony of terminal cancer but asked that for her funeral people give money to charity rather than waste it on flowers.
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Instantly I groaned in agony and lifted my arm to block out the light.
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And in her agony, in her utter helplessness, mentioned the unmentionable.
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This reading passage is made up of two letters written to an agony aunt of a teenage magazine.
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Martin the shepherd — and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, “the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!”
The Monastery
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My poor va-jay-jay is wincing in agony for yours. on April 17, 2008 at 8: 32 am | Reply Deutlich
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IT'S pure agony for the families - and has spawned the next generation of conspiracy theorists.
The Sun
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Some, rather than being simply indifferent to the well-being of others, have an urgent need to make others feel agony and humiliation.
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'That's Polly,' he said simply, though his mouth was wried with agony.
Life's Handicap
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Her face was distorted with agony, and small squeaks erupted from her mouth.
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Genius, devotion, and courage; the adornments of his mind, and the energies of his soul, all exerted to their uttermost stretch, could not roll back one hair's breadth the wheel of time's chariot; that which had been was written with the adamantine pen of reality, on the everlasting volume of the past; nor could agony and tears suffice to wash out one iota from the act fulfilled.
I.8
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(with the blood-poisoning and delirium above-mentioned), sometimes after an overdose, but oftener seeming to occur spontaneously, or in the midst of physical or mental agony as great and irrelievable as men suffer in hopeful abandonment of the drug, and with a colliquative diarrhea, by which -- in a continual fiery, acrid discharge -- the system relieves itself during a final fortnight of the effete matters which have been accumulating for years.
The Opium Habit
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Yesterday's election seems sure to prolong the agony for all.
The Sun
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His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony.
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But this time, the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area.
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Amateur theatricals is all right for an occupation for them that hasn't got anything to do nor nowhere to go, but they cause useless agony to an audience.
Chapter One: Introducing the Old Soak
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His face was contorted in agony as he tried to lift himself out of the chair.
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She bit on her lip, an exquisite agony tearing her apart.
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Is this a look of agony or ecstasy?
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there was another thump at the gates, this time followed by a blood-curdling scream of terror and agony.
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But, a red-tapist by nature, and hating innovations, owing to weakness of mind, he trembled inwardly and cried in agony:
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
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She was in agony and had to be carried away on a stretcher to an ambulance after her ski jump went disastrously wrong.
The Sun
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Dying in agony from inoperable cancer would be too kind for him.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Thus, the agony for Walker may have been needlessly prolonged.
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Last year my back went into spasm and for a couple of weeks I was in mortal agony.
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He crumbled to the floor, clutching his groin in agony.
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It is the very nature of the bonus system that may end up prolonging the agony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until a year ago he was on a cocktail of drugs and painkillers and in constant agony.
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Baccarat is a good fit for folks who enjoy the agony and ecstasy of gambling as well as the resplendence of the milieu, and don't come to the casino primarily or exclusively to parlay small stakes into big bucks.
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He had screamed in agony as cuts on his feet were stitched without anaesthetic.
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Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth.
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His was the agony of lost love and broken dreams and hatred of all the hurts and inanities of all the worlds he had known.
THE BROKEN GOD
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I still remember the exquisite agony of my first ice cream headache - no one had warned me not to inhale a chocolate milkshake.
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It is the very nature of the bonus system that may end up prolonging the agony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, the old lag takes on the role of agony aunt.
The Sun
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Since then they have gone crazy by relentlessly portraying the old-time era as one of non-stop agony and suffering.
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Paying double for two men and a large van, rather than hiring a small self-drive van, meant the difference between three hours of efficiency and a whole day of agony.
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At first it was absolute agony with the pain sharpest in the backs of my calves.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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He shouted to Ainley, who hurried scramblingly over a heap of the obstructing logs, and who, after one look at that which the Indian had retrieved, stood there shaking like wind-stricken corn; his face white and ghastly, his eyes full of agony.
A Mating in the Wilds
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The sermon was accompanied by such divine power that the whole congregation, except one man, fell prostrate upon the floor, and voiced their agony under conviction of sin, in such loud outcries that the preacher was forced to stop.
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His fists clenched tighter than they ever had, his arms clung close to his stomach in agony.
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The emotion was raw, the anger was genuine and the agony was heartfelt.
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These policies — begun under George W. Bush and continued under President Obama — have succeeded mainly in prolonging the agony and delaying a recovery.
The Housing Bust Lobby
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Let them view with him the piles of unsuccoured wounded on the breach of Badajoz, and hear the shrieks and groans of men dying in helpless agony, without a friendly hand to prop their head, or a drop of water to cool their fevered lips.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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But when you're wailing in pain and pleading for assistance, it really is prolonging the agony.
The Sun
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Our enthusiasm was tempered by the agony and ecstasy of the bus journeys.
A Channel of Peace
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The real agony for home fans lies in the fact that they have seen it happen so often in the recent past.
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He seemed to make that agony more acute in me than it need have been.
Mothers who Leave
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But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and, with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bullneck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass.
The Beasts of Tarzan
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It is the very nature of the bonus system that may end up prolonging the agony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above the tide of melody, the voice of the evangelist rose in a scream, appalling in its agony -- "Oh, men and women, why _will_ you die, _why_ will you _die_?
Fran
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He endured the agony of his father's death in 2004 that affected him so badly he suffered temporary paralysis of his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm glad he no longer has to suffer not only the physical agony but also the mental anguish of rejecting this new world.
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He was feeling the most delirious thrill of joy, mixed with an agony of anticipation, and spiked with that most potent spice: fear.
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I must have spent 10 or 15 minutes rolling on the floor in agony.
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Berlin is sharper still on his own thin-skinned self. He belittles his large philosophical gifts, finds publication an agony and worries to correspondents that his work is rot.
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Yet, as Cassy Mavor looked out upon the exquisite beauty of the scene, upon the splendid outspanning of the sun along the hills, the deep plangent blue of the sky and the thrilling light, she saw a world in agony and she heard the moans of the afflicted.
Northern Lights
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The slow approach may prolong the agony, but it's likely to be safer for your heart.
Times, Sunday Times
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`We'll have to fly this eggbeater together,'" Giordino told Loren as the pain in his legs subsided from sheer agony to a throbbing ache.
INCA GOLD
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The instant the light hit my pupils, the agony began.
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They are now 20 years older and must realise that to remain silent is to prolong the agony for Brian's parents.
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That Hume should suffer the agony of defeat by those he did so much to habilitate would be a cruel final irony.
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Eight goals this season and he can pile the agony on struggling Luton.
The Sun
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BRITAIN'S favourite agony aunt has been signed up by the Government to help tackle the divorce crisis.
The Sun
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Ah, Anne," she cried, and in the music of her voice, agony itself was ringing -- "Anne, there is but one thing on this earth God rules over -- but one thing that belongs -- _belongs_ to me; and 'tis Gerald
A Lady of Quality
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Watching collision-injured wildlife scream and writhe in agony is very disturbing to everyone, particularly the nonshooting, nonhunting public.
The Pernicious Lure Of The One-Shot Kill
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Paying double for two men and a large van, rather than hiring a small self-drive van, meant the difference between three hours of efficiency and a whole day of agony.
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Stories emerged of patients writhing in agony being ignored by staff or being told to return to soiled beds after seeking help.
The Sun
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The dying man groaned with agony as the rescues tried to move him.
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A whisper hurt; a glimpse of light hurt; the touch of the sheet against my ankle sent me reeling in agony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stimulus packages and bailouts only prolong the economic agony by creating the illusion of a solution, " said Barun Mitra, director of the Liberty Institute, an economic think tank in New Delhi.
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The best hope that Kampuchea can be spared more agony is the gathering weight of diplomatic contact.
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Alyosha repeated unconsoled, hiding his face in his hands in an agony of remorse for his indiscretion.
The Brothers Karamazov
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There he doubled up in limp agony, for the Wheeling "stogie" joined with the surge and jar of the screw to sieve out his soul.
Captains Courageous
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Crouched over in agony, Ruth's terrible cry of betrayal seems torn from the depths of her soul.
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Yet only agony was etched on his face afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grunewald's Crucifixion becomes a symbol of Germany's agony, the Passion it suffered as a consequence of its defeat in World War I.
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To my left and right stood two sets of rusted metal gates where the ear-piercing screams of agony ripped through the air, blocking out all other noise.
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The very words "mother-in-law" can raise a laugh, though as agony aunt for Saga magazine I can tell you tiresome daughters-in-law are just as common.
Boring for Britain
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Shaheed was conscious, despite bisection, and pointed up, 'Take me up there ... so I carried what was now only half a boy (and therefore reasonably light) up narrow spiral stairs to the heights of that cool white minaret, where Shaheed babbled ... the loudspeaker system was activated, and afterwards people would never forget how a mosque had screamed out the terrible agony of war.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
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Ah, it is little short of a sin to encage a wild bird, beating its heart against the bars of its narrow cage, when the sun calls it to mount up with quivering ecstasy to the gates of day; but what a sin to bind the preacher of righteousness, and imprison him in sunless vaults -- what an agony!
John the Baptist
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The brief pause while he slipped off his clothing was like agony; then he was next to her, hard and demanding.
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When you're an agony aunt you have a huge responsibility to your readers, and I wasn't about to shirk mine.
RESCUING ROSE
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He was paralyzed by the agony, unable to move even as he felt the heavy tread of General Powell's feet as he came to stand above him.
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The dead woman rose for a moment of agony while she was lapped in the flame, and her bitter scream of pain was drowned in the thundercrash.
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Oddly melancholy for a fantasy epic, the film overflows with sorrow for love lost, love unrequited, and the agony of lovers separated by the void of death.
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He fell awkwardly and went down in agony clutching his right knee.
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I wept bitterly; and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, "Oh! stars and clouds, and winds, ye are all about to mock me: if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.
Chapter 17
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Yesterday's election seems sure to prolong the agony for all.
The Sun
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It was agony not being able to understand his reasons forgiving me the cold shoulder.
The Sun
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There is no point in prolonging the agony.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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With agony he had observed that supernaculum was his miserable lot.
Vivian Grey
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Where are the bodies writhing in synchronised agony?
Times, Sunday Times
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They have practised the signature and the showstopper bakes, but when they lift that checked cloth and look at the technical challenge, they are in agony.
The Sun
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While writing her agony aunt column, she remained busy as a reporter, interviewing figures including Margaret Thatcher.
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The agony of the wilderness represents not just the awful physical, mental and spiritual privations.
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A long-faced nurse in a sickroom is a visible embodiment and presence of the disease against which the eager life of the patient is fighting in agony.
The Seaboard Parish, Complete
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By my appointment time of 9.30 I was hopping around, and by the time I actually went in at 9.40 I was in sheer agony but oh the relief afterwards!
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Eighty miles, yet they were clear with the clearness that only altitudinous country can bring; alluring, fascinating, beckoning to him until his being rebelled against the comparative slowness of the train, and the minutes passed in a dragging, long-drawn-out sequence that was almost an agony to Robert Fairchild.
The Cross-Cut
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She mumbled an apology in an agony of embarrassment.
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Being agony aunt was tricky and probably quite beyond her.
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He had a particular account of these events, from a fellow-student who resided in the same village, and who, having been present on the melancholy occasion, was able to place it in all its agony of horrors before his excruciated imagination.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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He did the job despite being in agony from wearing a pair of trainers that were two sizes too small.
Times, Sunday Times
