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Definition of Agonies
1. agony [n] - See also: agony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agonies
Literary usage of Agonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... agonies, he threw himself out of his litter, rallied his army, and led them
on to the charge; which afterwards ended in a complete victory on the side ..."
2. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"MADISON AGONISTES; or, The agonies of Mother Goose. Lend., 1814. 8vo. Cf., unc., by
P. Riach (Stevens copy), Wendell, G., Oct. IS, '19. (2426) $14.00. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... give language to those great unseen griefs and those terrible unuttered agonies
that lie immediately below the surface of apparently tranquil lives. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"agonies of death by suffocation. These cases clearly lead to the conclusion that
the operation should not be deferred by useless temporizing, ..."
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