Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt and taints of blood.
Soon distance shall bid my reft heart undergo Those pangs that alone the poor exile can know-- Away!
That was a privilege sacred unto her, and not to be foregone; but she would defer its satisfaction until the pangs of confession had been suffered; until the rash one should achieve a mood receptive to counsel.
They said little more to each other till they came to the house of Mrs. Modely; where the first sound that reached the ears of Miss Betsy were groans, which seemed to issue from the mouth of a person in the pangs of death.
Miss Flora was not of a temper, either to bear the pangs of hopeless love in silent grief, or to give way too readily to despair.
That they felt the pangs of thirst there can be no doubt--and what animal can suffer thirst like a camel?
We feel in his portraiture a deep compassion for the pangs of despised love--the compassion of one who himself has suffered--and over the whole figure of Helena he has shed a Raphael-like beauty.
In the opinion of my two senior physicians, all that I could do would be to alleviate the worst pangs of it.
But this pleasure was a costly one, for it awokepangs of hunger, which I was compelled to appease by drawing upon my rapidly-emptying purse.
At times the pangs of hunger grew too strong for us both, and forced me to spend a little of the money I was nursing so carefully.
But the pangsof wounded vanity seemed to him ridiculous; and he scarcely felt sufficient compassion even for the pangs of wounded affection.
Ambition plagues them not, nor hope, nor fear; No demons fright them and no cruel creeds; No pangs of disappointment or remorse.
Sleep and rest: Sorrow shall not pain thy breast, Pangs and pains that pierce the mortal Cannot enter at the portal Of the Mansion of the Blest: Sleep and rest.
And as he sat in silence reading hers, I saw the pangs of conscience on his face; I saw him tremble like a stricken soul; And then a tear-drop fell upon his hand; And there we sat in silence.
The young man's heart went out to the poor boy, and pangs of regret filled his mind as he realized that the child's pathetic condition was the direct result of his self-sacrificing attempt to save his king.
Why is it that I do not feel resentment, although the pangs you have caused me are so dreadful?
I owe it now, my Lord, to the pangs of parting, and I will not accept it.
Corinne asked Nevil to accompany her thither: he consented, hoping that her presence would soften all the pangs he must endure.
Castel Forte was a susceptible being: but not even the most magnanimous of men knows how to console the woman he has loved under the pangs thus inflicted by another.
Philoctetus is, perhaps, the only tragic subject in which such agonies can be admitted; but with how much of poetry are his cruel pangs invested!
They felt pangs of remorse, too, in having allowed her to sally forth by night unprotected by soldiers.
For a time she must abandon her designs upon the General, and lull the pangs of disappointment and injured vanity by drowning thought in excitement.
They begin by bargaining with him; they laugh at the pangs endured by "the miserly peasant;" they suck the very blood and marrow of him.
In the earlier days of the Middle Ages he waits till the last pangs to seize the soul and bear it off.
Castalio play'd with love, and smiling show'd The pleasure, not the pangs of his desire.
If, lab'ring in the pangs of death, Thou wouldst do any thing to give me ease, Unfold this riddle ere my thoughts grow wild, And let in fears of ugly form upon me.
Both men were suffering the pangs of thirst, but hunger had not yet become a problem.
Only the pangs of hunger kept him from turning about and seeking less complicated prey.
He glanced at the effusive little lady, and saw that she was on the point of crying, and very likely in the first pangs of a nervous headache; and, without further words, he left her.
Surely you owe Dick and me some reward after the pangs we have suffered for you.
But if we must fast, then I warrant we, being Englishmen, can endure our pangs for a day.
Twas clear that he was utterly spent; he could not even stagger to the farther end of the gorge; and with the bitter pangs of despair I heard the fierce baying of the hounds, and had almost resigned myself to the inevitable end.
For already I feel the pangs of labour and child-birth, and if I abide other four or five days, I shall be brought to bed here, and I shall be unable to travel to my country.
For she felt pride, pangs as real as thepangs of childbirth.
Her discovery, perhaps, confirmed her in her countenance to Percival's progressive wooing, and half reconciled her to the pangs it inflicted on herself.
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying The pangs of barr'd affections, though the King Hath charg'd you should not speak together.
And sweetens, in the suff'ring pangs it bears, The aloes of all forces, shocks and fears.
If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is belov'd.
Yes, and shall do, till the pangs of death shake him.
Souls and bodies hath he divorc'd three; and his incensement at this moment is so implacable that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death and sepulchre.
My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence; For I do see the cruel pangs of death Right in thine eye.
It was evident he had suffered, like themselves, the pangs of hunger, though he had fared better at this encampment; for they had not a mouthful to eat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pangs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agony; compunction; qualm; scruple; throes
