"Agonising" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of them fled the woman, terror lending her an incredible speed which agonising physical pain augmented. She dived under horses, she squeezed through vehicles, she twisted and turned, caring naught for the native drivers, who, indifferent to the daily sufferings of their wretched little horses, lashed at her with their whips, with ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... folded very small, and written in pencil. There was a strange faintness at my heart, and my fingers trembled as I opened them. Fear, fear was clutching me, compressing me in an agonising grip. ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... wrong," said Murray, warmly; "but have some pity for me too. Doctor Barnes, you cannot be blind to what I think and feel. All this is agonising to me. Look here, sir; do you think I have not brains enough to see that this man reads me and my sentiments toward your daughter. The scoundrel—the insolent barbarian! he is actually jealous, and under his smiling civility, ...
— The Rajah of Dah • George Manville Fenn
... not think that Aunt Flora should see a doctor? The pain is so agonising that she seems quite stupid ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... that ill-fated afternoon, and then all, save for the songs of the birds and the rippling of the deep waters of the lake, was wrapped in silence. Then followed the report—whispered through the party assembled to do honour to the future bride and bridegroom—that "Bill" was missing. Then came the agonising suspense and the eight hours' search throughout ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs
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