What is "sufferings"

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This state of mental anguish is, however, less terrible than the sufferings that precede or the punishment that possibly will follow.

All his sorrows, all his sufferings, with their train of gloomy spectres, fled from his cell when the angel of death seemed about to enter.

The count, fearing to yield to the entreaties of her he had so ardently loved, called his sufferings to the assistance of his hatred.

I taught my arm to slay, my eyes to behold excruciating sufferings, and my mouth to smile at the most horrid spectacles.

But who can foretell what road will be followed, through what disasters and sufferings one may have to go?

And he sank into a sort of second childhood, clasping his hands and stammering plaintively, terrified, and beseeching compassion, like one whose sufferings are too hard to bear.

Mathieu and Marianne reappeared, while Morange, seized with a need of motion, came and went with an air of stupefaction, quite losing his wits amid his dreadful sufferings, those awful things which could but unhinge his narrow mind.

Every minute aggravates its sufferings, and will no one, no one come to its aid?

He is touched by all he sees around him, by the sufferings of others, by their individual misfortunes.

Is he not the chief among them, in virtue of his sufferings and his sacrifice?

For weeks we had made strenuous efforts to snatch him from death, and then to alleviate his sufferings, without eliciting the slightest sign of satisfaction from him, or receiving the least word of thanks.

These men are so wretched, so utterly humiliated, so absorbed in their relentless sufferings that they seem to have relinquished the burden of the passions in order to concentrate their powers on the one endeavour: to live.

Men of my country, I learn to know you better every day, and from having looked you in the face at the height of your sufferings, I have conceived a religious hope for the future of our race.

These alternatives, however, were of a kind not greatly to lessen the cruelties of the persecutor or the sufferings of the victim.

We have, at the hands of one of their number, -- a lady born and raised in affluence at home, -- a lively and touching picture of the sufferings and duties, which, in Carolina, at that period, neither sex nor age was permitted to escape.