Intense pains

Usage examples of agonies.

Very simply put, the Chimeran Agonies induce people to change willingly almost any aspect of their behavior, in order to escape what become increasingly hideous dreams, or, should I say, what they perceive to be dreams.

The forbidden, esoteric Vagaries that Failee tore from Faegan's mind with the Chimeran Agonies and was forced to combine with the Vigors to produce this bastardization of the craft.

To return one of such endowed blood, one who was actually a member of the Coven and still exhibits the effects of Failee's Agonies, would be completely irresponsible, no matter how much we love her.

You see, we must also consider the possibility that the Chimeran Agonies could pass from mother to child.

I can only guess the medallion to be some oblique manifestation of the Chimeran Agonies, perhaps even left here in the physical world as a result of Failee's fragmentary knowledge.

The curiously watchful look was still in her eyes and suddenly, apropos of nothing, she began to wring her hands in the strange, dumb way which always preceded one of her characteristic mental agonies,--agonies which, far beyond her understanding as they were, never failed to awake profound compassion in Esther.

Every one seemed to know everything, and yet--no wonder that Miss Milligan picked her teeth in agonies of mental tumult at finding herself sole possessor of a satisfactory explanation which she was bound in honour not to disclose.

The lifting and shoving made her head spin and her stomach churn, and a hundred agonies assailed her.

Unlike the agonies of tortured bones and muscles, this painful pressure could be relieved easily, and she wouldn't even have to put herself through the gruesome ordeal of moving from where she lay.

CHAPTER XVIII WHAT CAME THROUGH THE WINDOW I HAD not been in my unnatural position for many minutes before I began to suffer agonies, agonies not only physical but mental.

In short, she had, with amazing prowess, delivered some fifty or threescore disabled Mussulmen of the pain under which they groaned, and made a comfortable booty of the spoils of the slain, when her eyes were attracted by the rich attire of an Imperial officer, who lay bleeding on the plain, to all appearance in the agonies of death.

Yet, he had no sooner committed his effects to the care of this triumvirate, than his fancy was visited with direful warnings, which produced cold sweats and palpitations, and threw him into such agonies of apprehension as he had never known before.

The Hibernian's horse being a common hireling, and unaccustomed to stand fire, no sooner saw the flash of Trebasi's pistol, than, starting aside, he happened to plunge into a hole, and was overturned at the very instant when the hussar's piece went off, so that no damage ensued to his rider, who, pitching on his feet, flew with great nimbleness to his adversary, then, laying hold on one leg, dismounted him in a twinkling, and, seizing his throat as he lay, would have soon despatched him without the use of firearms, had he not been prevented by his friend Renaldo, who desired him to desist, observing that his vengeance was already satisfied, as the Count seemed to be in the agonies of death.

The company will easily conceive what agonies I felt at such a spectacle!

In a word, his mind was in a dreadful situation, and all his agonies were communicated to me, whom by this time he had married, in order to make some atonement for my wrongs.