agonies
- plural of agony.
Example Sentences
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This hazardous Circumstance threw the Favourite into inexpressible Agonies.
From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de
It is said that the young apprentice executed under his care a beautiful piece of silver-work representing the Seven Agonies of Christ.
From Dürer Artist-Biographies by Sweetser, M. F.
The stamp of his sufferings is on every passage in that exilic work “Isaiah” XL-LXVI, which presents the Suffering Servant of the Lord and declares the atoning virtues of His Agonies and Death.
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir
Sure never poor Soul was in such Agonies as I. Wicked Man! said I; wicked, abominable Woman!
From Pamela Censured by Anonymous
While Oroonoko felt all the Agonies of Love, and suffer’d under a Torment the most painful in the World, the old King was not exempted from his Share of Affliction.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague
