What is "agonized"

Usage examples of "agonized".

It was not at the agonized contortions and posturing of the wretched boy that he was shocked, but at the cosmic obscenity of these beings which could drag to light the abysmal secrets that sleep in the unfathomed darkness of the human soul, and find pleasure in the brazen flaunting of such things as should not be hinted at, even in restless nightmares.

She chose breath over sight and grabbed the aerator, quenching her agonized lungs even as the high-tech optics were torn off her head, turning everything black.

When the door to the room in which Krone and I were waiting was finally thrust open, it was Michael standing there with an expression of agonized dismay distorting his face.

Chainer shot Skellum an agonized look, but Skellum could only look back with sympathy.

She felt her eyes fill with water, blinked up at the swimming, sloped ceiling of the hide tent, and released a slow, agonized breath.

Against a background of flashing swords, Brian Boru was cut down like a great tree, as an agonized Donough watched from a distance.

The six shouters then also dashed forward to help, and there was a confusion of hands at that empurpled center of attention, until the agonized Yogi reeled wailing away from them and fell down, writhing and hammering his fists on the floor.

Derkhan danced and spasmed, agonized yells spurting out from behind her teeth.

Wolfstein--when turning round, and starting in agonized frenzy from his chair, Ginotti himself--Ginotti--from whose terrific gaze never had he turned unappalled, stood in cool and fearless contempt before him!

I should scarce suppose even a demon would act so, were there not many with hearts more depraved even than those of fiends, who first have torn some unsophisticated soul from the pinnacle of excellence, on which it sat smiling, and then triumphed in their hellish victory when it writhed in agonized remorse, and strove to hide its unavailing regret in the dust from which the fabric of her virtues had arisen.

They wore black cloaks, and when Stark pulled the hoods back, the white unhuman faces of Fenn and Ferdic stared up at him, their night-seeing eyes stretched and agonized with fear.

Cameron snipped away till he had exposed the furry plump triangle of her lovecenter, by which, half fainting with shame and distress, the brownette had averted her face to one side and lay panting with agonized terror.

This time, the Menekhetan women on his carpeted island merely keened, low and agonized.

With the chimes raging in her ears and the iron spike sliding through her body to break out the other side, she opened her mouth until her lips stretched into an agonized O.

Could Lord Nao keep himself from intervening when he heard her agonized cries of pain?