Suddenly a shriek from the entire audience broke this agonizing silence.
They raised the mouthpiece to an aperture in the masks, and an ear-splitting blast, an agonizing sound, rent the silence.
The afternoons when the bull-fighter fought in Seville were agonizing for his family as well as for himself.
The agonizing anxiety and suspense which followed Jan's disappearance had broken him down, and this was the end.
Trafford's imagination conjured up a sleepless King Emperor agonizing for humanity.
He started up, each limb convulsed With agonizing fear, He only heard the storm of night-- 'Twas music to his ear.
Thus did Anneke believe her father safe, and thus was she relieved from much agonizing doubt.
I often hear it in my sleep, and twenty times have I awoke since, fancying thatagonizing call was in my ears.
Agonizing as it would be to their feelings, they felt that they must go and see their son before he should die.
At last he was compelled to tear the parents away; and it was agonizing indeed to leave their son in such a situation, soon to be led to an ignominious death.
Hume's description: "The screams with which the agonizing king filled the castle.
The agonizing scene which ensued I shall leave entirely to the reader's imagination--observing only, that the two minions of the law into whose hands Aubrey had now fallen, seemed totally indifferent to the anguish they witnessed.
The almost agonizing entreaties of Le Breton that they would not utterly ruin the house he had betrayed, were treated with scornful contempt, and he was at length silenced by their brutal menaces.
Pressing his hands before his eyes, he tried to shut out the beautiful, agonizing vision.
This night, then,--the night which quenched the light of this agonizing day, must for ever quench his doubts and fears.
His answer to her agonizing entreaties could not be credited were it not a subject of history, and the date so recent.
Near three o'clock in the afternoon, this agonizing sensation affected me to an intense degree.
What an agonizing day I spent, torn between my desire to regain my free will and my regret at abandoning this marvelous Nautilus, leaving my underwater research incomplete!
In the confusion of my mind, and the agonizing disarray of all my senses, I had stumbled into the sacred place unawares.
I could see the Lascar fall from the rigging, catch the agonizing glance of the white eyes in his black face as he was swept past on the crest of a wave, and watch his outstretched arms as he sank to his death down and down and down.
Yakov more agonizing than anything, and he longed to lengthen out the time somehow, so as to endure this shame not now, but later, in the future.
He knew there was no deceiving anyone by this, but to move, to do something, to be active, was not as agonizing as to sit still and wait.
I never shall forget the agonizing expression of that face.
But short space was left to Nuna for these agonizing thoughts.
She had wept all her tears; she had tossed sleeplessly through all her hours of fierce rebellion; she had gone through the most agonizing ordeal of her woman's life.
There was a short and agonizing pause in which both listened, without hearing it, to the sound of the wheels of a fiacre, drawing up outside the door of the hotel.
Here he remained from August to May, during which time he witnessed instances of suffering of the most agonizing kind, and was himself compelled again to feel the barbarous treatment of British officials.
The poor animal, unused to the dangers around, had the temerity to run out and bark at the pack--he soon after gave one agonizing yelp, and we never saw him again.
Not a word was spoken, not a sound was heard; but the fearful struggles and terrified, agonizing looks of Brown were more than I could endure.
A half-dozen aristocratical gentlemen, agonizing under the loss of pre-eminence, have sometimes ventured their sarcasms on our political metamorphosis.
These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
He raised his eyes with an earnest, trustful look, then a long--agonizing death struggle came on.
The piercing cries, and [77] agonizing shrieks of these poor creatures, made no impression on the savages.
George and John were busied in drawing grain from the field to the barn, the agonizing shrieks of those at the house rent the air around them; and they hastened to ascertain, and if practicable avert the cause.
Our Abandoned Mothers Take a very common instance of this agonizing incompatibility.
All the ways discovered so far lead to the horrors of our existing civilizations, described quite justifiably by Ruskin as heaps of agonizing human maggots, struggling with one another for scraps of food.
I was ardent and good-looking, and easily found lodgment in her heart; but the conquest of her charms was long, and agonizing with sincere esteem.
And, oh, Leonard so well understood, and could so nobly compassionate even in his prosperous rival, that torture of the most agonizing of human passions, in which all our reasonings follow the distorted writhings of our pain.
