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  • Second, certain parts may appear to you strained, and it is possible that I translate them badly; but they are of no importance; among others, the word agonie, which chokes me; but I cannot find any other explanation.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

  • And lying thus in such an agonie, I thought vpon the strifes of weake fortune, and the inchauntments of the malicious _Cyrces_, as if I had by hir charmes and quadranguled plaints, been bereaued of my sences.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • On Sundaye mornynges itt is a fayre sighte to see her going to and fro churche in a _chapeau de Paris de la dernyère agonie_, bearyng a _parasolett a la ripp snap mettez-la encore debout_ style; and whych shee sayes is like a _homme blasé_, because it is Used Upp. Sundaie afternoon yee may find her in ye

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Suddenly he broke the silence with the words: "Now my death - struggle begins" [Maintenant j'entre en agonie].

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • And Mélanie she's in agonie and say no-no-no! but if mademoiselle will tell it, yes!

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

  • His agonie was very great, and his joyful laugh soon turned to grievous gioaning.

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • MADAME, -- A peine arrivée dans cette contrée hospitalière après 9 jours d'une cruelle agonie, mon premier sentiment, après avoir béni la

    The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

  • There is a passage from Condorcet's _Des Progr�s de l'esprit humain_, which seems to have been written as a warning to our epoch: _Le z�le religieux des philosophes et des grands n'�tait qu'une d�votion politique: et toute religion, qu'on se permet de d�fendre comme une croyance qu'il est utile de laisser au peuple, ne peut plus esp�rer qu'une agonie plus ou moins prolong�e_.

    Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824

  • Des Progrès de l’esprit humain, which seems to have been written as a warning to our epoch: Le zèle religieux des philosophes et des grands n’était qu’une dévotion politique: et toute religion, qu’on se permet de défendre comme une croyance qu’il est utile de laisser au peuple, ne peut plus espérer qu’une agonie plus ou moins prolongée.

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • "Le 27th Juin, 1862, le trois-mats Britannia, de Glasgow, a sombre apres une longue agonie dans les mers australes sur les cotes de la Nouvelle Zelande -- in English Zealand.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

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