Agony In A Sentence

Q: How to use agony in a sentence?

1. Mauriri was in an agony of apprehension. 2. She knew his agony of soul. 3. Dicksie screamed in an agony of terror. 4. She knitted her brows in the agony of calculation. 5. Every line of his face proclaimed his agony of mind.

How To Use Agony In A Sentence?

I had never seen him weep before; his had always been agony rather than sorrow.
In the centre of the great lofty room he lay and wrestled with an agony that was almost unceasing.
There was an agony of hope in the appeal, as of one who sees at hand unexpected deliverance.
His agony was beyond description and did not cease until half-past ten, when he died.
I tried to call out, but in that moment of agony and horror my tongue refused to articulate.
He longed for night, and he gazed with agony upon the face of his ever-youthful love.
They laugh at the agony of unbelievers, mock at their tears, and of their sorrows make a jest.
Bereft even of the courage to die, they kneeled, praying that the agony of death might be past.
His eyes were strained and bloodshot, and his whole appearance was that of a person in an agony of terror.
Then she stamped both feet up and down like an angry child and flung herself face down on the couch in an agony of tears.
She could not speak, but in the agony of her terror she threw her arms around and clasped him wildly.
There is a delight even in the parting agony of two lovers worth a thousand tame pleasures of the world.

Although in great agony he suffered me to carry him to a neighbouring hay-rick, from whence we removed him to his cottage.
After the years of civil wars which he had lived through in agony of spirit, it is not strange that such a mission seemed to him supreme.
Thus she had written in her agony and desperation, and sent with the letter the sum of one hundred and ten pounds.
In an agony of apprehension, the women clutched their skirts tight about them, protesting and scolding the while.
She remembered the agony of those few minutes on the preceding day, when nothing but what still seemed a miracle had saved him.
Suddenly a vibrating spasm of agony shot through her teeth and flew up like veins of red-hot fluid into her cheeks and eyes.
All that day, and for many days after, she almost forgot the terrible problem of her marriage in the agony of her nerves.
In an agony of fear she searched her memory for the events of the past month, trying to recall any symptom of illness that should have warned her.
During the last hour of his agony his wife knelt beside his couch without let or hindrance, and wept inconsolably.
It was either hearsay, or given by persons utterly unworthy of credit, or wrung from the accused by agony and torture.
Whether his head reeled with the terrible uproar around, or that his mind gave way between agony and doubt, who can tell?
I saw in her pallid and wasted features; in the prompt terror and subdued agony of her eye a whole history of a mind broken down by tyranny.