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... face flushed as red as could be considering the amount of blood he had lost, and a look of absolute devilishness that made my flesh creep came into his eyes. For a moment he did not speak, and then, covering the delay in his answer with a groan of anguish, ...

— Ghosts I have Met and Some Others • John Kendrick Bangs

... Lord's death, till he come." I. Cor. xi: 26. This sacrament of the Lord's Supper is the point of meeting between the sufferings of Christ and the glory that is to follow—between his cross, with all its shame and anguish, and his kingdom, with all ...

— The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young • Richard Newton

... steamers and the fifteen or twenty tugboats available. As there was no one to arrange their systematic embarkation a wild struggle followed amongst the frantic people, to secure a place. Men, women and children fought desperately with each other to get on board, and in that moment of supreme anguish human nature was seen in one of its worst moods; but who can blame these ...

— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell

... end my bliss; A long, a sad farewell we took. What joy—what rapture in thy kiss, What depth of anguish in thy look! I left thee, dear! but after me Thine eyes through tears look'd from above; Yet to be loved—what ecstacy! What ecstacy, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various

... soul within Was dark with passion and soiled with sin. But now its wounds are healed again; Gone are the anguish, the terror, and pain; For across that desolate land of woe, O'er whose burning sands I was forced to go, A wind from heaven began to blow; And all my being trembled and shook, As the leaves of the tree, or ...

— The Golden Legend • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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