Then the most solemn music was played, the most agonising wailing dirges were sung, and the nuns coming behind with a great black pall, spread it over the prostrate figures.
But daily my health grew worse, and scarcely a morning passed without my having an agonising fit of suffocation, from contraction of the muscles of the throat, gasping for breath in misery unutterable.
How doubly Agonising is Death when you are in doubt as to whence that Full Suit of Black needed on the Funeral Night will arrive!
These letters are to me a source of repentance, and often of agonising regret.
In the midst of this feverish pursuit of pleasure there came over him--so he said--moments of agonising despair.
An intelligent man cannot help being a sceptic; at least he must at some period of his life experience the most agonising scepticism.
He is sometimes astounding, quite a genius, but what an agonising play!
In the palace chambers agonising groans had been heard.
The agonising cries of the wounded, and the frantic shrieks and exhortations for help from the imprisoned children, were sufficient to make the boldest shudder.
Never, perhaps, was the infliction of mutilation, and prolonged and agonising forms of death, more common.
From all these scenes uprose theagonising sensation of a great catastrophe, rendered more striking by the magnificent sun of an exceptionally fine season.
The next moment he had straightened himself and turned round, and with a sudden, almost agonising leap of the heart Diana saw that it was Max Errington.
To many of us the anticipation of an unpleasant happening is far more agonising than the actual thing itself.
He had entered in a state of swooning unconsciousness, swung, in agonising and ignominious attitude, one bale among the many which constitute a camel's load.
In August, however, anagonising suspicion began for the first time to visit him momentarily, a terrible fear to assail him.
Jeanie was unable to trust herself with more than one glance towards her lover, whom she now met under circumstances so agonising to her feelings, and at the same time so humbling to her honest pride.
Write to me soon, Jeanie, or I shall remain in the agonising apprehension that this has fallen into wrong hands--Address simply to L.
Here the woman, in agonising throbs, interrupted him by enquiring why he said there was no home for the wife he had married in lawful wedlock-was not the land of the puritans free?
Again she smooths and smooths her left hand over those pallid cheeks, her right still pressing the cold hand of the corpse, as her emotions burst forth in agonising sobs.
Agonising shrieks sounded amid the rage of elements; and then fainter and fainter they died away on the wind's murmurs.
Probably she was picturing to herself Orlov's return and the inevitable quarrels with him; then his growing indifference to her, his infidelities; then how they would separate; and perhaps these agonising thoughts gave her satisfaction.
It seems to me that no one has ever yet written of love truly, and I doubt whether this tender, joyful, agonising feeling can be described, and any one who has once experienced it would not attempt to put it into words.
He drank warm water, moaned, had the sheets and pillowcase changed, whimpered, and induced an agonising boredom in all surrounding him.
If we retained an agonising memory of toothache and of all the terrors which every one of us has had to experience, if all that were everlasting, we poor mortals would have a bad time of it in this life.
He did not know that there had suddenly come upon Luke Claridge the full consciousness of an agonising truth--that all he had done where David was concerned had been a mistake.
The deathly pallor gradually disappeared as the blood came back to her cheeks, but the dark rings about her eyes, and the marks upon her throat, still remained as evidence how near she had been to an agonising and most terrible death.
And the lodger looked up from the table where, as usual, he was studying with painful, almost agonising intentness, the Book.
For was not she also wasting with a terrible disappointment--a blow that must be as agonising as any Aunt Marguerite could have felt?
Harry turned sharply round, for he mentally pictured in one agonising thought the scene at Van Heldre's home.
Louise stood before him with her hands clasped, and a flow of agonising thoughts seemed to sweep her reason away.
The flesh of the fugitives crept, and the knowledge that one of them might be seized kept them in a state of perfectly agonising suspense.
As it fell, from above them in the belfry came a most awful, piercing, and agonising scream of anguish.
An agonising cry for help rang through the silent street, but there was no answer to the call.
Much as they desired the cutting off of the villain, they were not pleased to see him so suddenly shift his worlds without an agonising realisation of the fact that he was quitting an existence in which he had done nothing but evil.
As it was, the keen instrument he had sharpened so laboriously on indifferent material now ploughed its agonising way, bit by bit, into the most intimate recesses of thought and faith.
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