"Agonizing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of language does he portray in the following passage the reality and earnestness of his agonizing experience:— ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... a shake of the head, With the hand, as it were, of a master, This agonizing old gentleman said: "'Twas ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... days together lost in thought, listening with vacant eyes, all her being exhausted by the unknown creature that had taken possession of her. She was conscious of a vague buzzing, sweet, lulling, agonizing. She would start suddenly from her torpor—dripping with sweat, shivering, with a spasm of revolt. She fought against the meshes in which Nature had entrapped her. She wished to live, to live freely, and it seemed to her that Nature had tricked her. Then she was ashamed of such thoughts, ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... some moments riveted to the spot from whence he had witnessed its occurrence; but soon partially recovering his bewildered faculties, he fell upon his hands and knees, and approaching the mouth of the shaft, called out, in a tone of agonizing anxiety to his companion, but with scarcely a hope of being responded to, when a faint voice, though from an awful depth, assured him he was yet alive; but, it was to be feared, dreadfully injured; and, in plain truth, he was in a situation of even greater danger than his fellow-traveller was then ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various
... of facts will be police, detective, and alms-house reports; city missionaries' explorations, and the testimony of the abandoned and sin-blasted, who, about to take the final plunge, have staggered back just for a moment, to utter the wild shriek of their warning, and the agonizing ...
— The Abominations of Modern Society • Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
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