Extreme distress of body or mind

Usage examples of anguish.

I shall never forget the anguish and loathing on her face when she realised what she had become.

His eyes were so rarely anything but tranquil that the anguish in them cut right through her.

I described the anguish of watching my family growing older, suffering every wound that mortality can inflict.

To save them present pain at the risk of future anguish, to consult the feelings of her brother, in preference to his morality, would be forgetting every lesson of her life, which, from its earliest dawn, had imbibed a love of virtue, that made her consider whatever was offensive to it as equally disgusting and unhappy.

Edgar, her uncertainty of his intentions, her suspicions of his wished secession, the severe task she thought necessary to perform of giving him his liberty, with the anguish of a total inability to judge whether such a step would recall his tenderness, or precipitate his retreat, were suggestions which quickly succeeded, and, in a very short time, wholly domineered over every other.

But her brother, to whom the blow was new, and the consequences were still impending, was struck with extreme anguish, that while thus every possible hope was extinguished with regard to his love, he must suddenly apply himself to some business, or be reduced to the most obscure poverty.

Camilla in an anguish that, at his return, seemed quite to have changed her.

She wrung her hands in anguish, and besought him to send instantly an express to Etherington, with the fatal tidings.

Broken hearted over these letters, Camilla spent her time in their perpetual perusal, in wiping from them her tears, and pressing with fond anguish to her lips the signature of her hapless sister, self-beguiled by her own credulous goodness, and self-devoted by her conscientious scruples.

Yet, her faculties confused, hurried, and in anguish, permitted little more than incoherent ejaculations.

Again he went over the events of the afternoon, remembering his own anguish of apprehension because he had known he could not climb the wall without fainting with fear.

She looked and looked at the baby, and almost hated it, and suffered an anguish of love for it.

There was an ease, a go-as-you-please about the day underground, a delightful camaraderie of men shut off alone from the rest of the world, in a dangerous place, and a variety of labour, holing, loading, timbering, and a glamour of mystery and adventure in the atmosphere, that made the pit not unattractive to him when he had again got over his anguish of desire for the open air and the sea.

Even with this anguish for his mother tightening about him, he was sensible of the wonder of living this evening.

This terror came in from the shrieking of the tree and the anguish of the home discord.