What is "agonising"

Usage examples of "agonising".

Who am I, just a woman who spent eight agonising hours in labour with you.

He tried to catch sight of her feet, dreading to imagine their damaged state, knowing that every step she took must be agonising, but she was already off and away, pounding across the floor to the brassy orchestrations.

What I did know for certain was that every additional second I remained there would make the bends all the more agonising and crippling when they finally struck.

I grabbed it, held on, surfaced, sucked in some lungfuls of that cold, salt, wonderful air and waited for the decompression pains to start, those sharply agonising twinges in the Joints of the limbs.

He was sobbing as she had sometimes heard men sob after agonising operations, borne without a sound until the worst was over.

Devotions, which was so reduced to pulp with tears and sweat and the clenching of his agonising hands that his literary executors were with difficulty able to decipher it.

To take her own bitter words for it, the most agonising and remorseful thoughts about her conduct to her husband stung her heart like so many wasps.

But he recovered himself with an agonising effort, as the thought struck upon this heart that he was about to lose sight of her again for ever.

In her teens those looks had caused her endless problems, often ant agonising her own sex and making it difficult for her to make friends, and equally often leading the boys she met to assume that she was far more sexually aware and adventurous than was actually the case.

He smelled faintly of heat and sweat, and the knowledge that he was so male and human was like a powerful kick in her stomach, a wrenching, agonising tide of reaction that made her tense every muscle in her body.

Both eagle and SkraeBold disappeared into the clouds, and for a few agonising moments none below could see what was happening.

For a long agonising moment he stared at Rivkah, then he booted his horse and galloped back towards his army.

But early in January, Lopez received a more pressing,-- we might almost say an agonising letter from his friend Parker.

A great mistake, a very great mistake, for at once a blinding, agonising pain, that never-recorded pain that must be experienced in the final shattering millisecond of awareness as a plunging guillotine slices through bone, flesh, and muscle before crashing into the block beneath, slashed its paralysing way across head, neck, and shoulders and toppled me back to the deck again.

Roseate or sombre your humour as you patrol the reefs, it is liable to be changed in a flash into clashing tints by inadvertent contact with a warty ghoul of a sea-urchin, a single one of whose agonising spines never fails to bring you face to face with one of the vividest realities of life.