anguish

• It was with a suppressed anguish which is indescribable that he sat there, with his face covered, looking this approaching misery in the face. —  Phoebe, Junior
• And Mrs. Mushroom Ketchup's diamonds are only so much fresh fuel piled on the burning anguish of starving and suffering men,--anguish which results in anarchy. —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
• Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. —  'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
• With one motion she regained her national unity, and renewed once more her youth Meanwhile the news that sifted in, little by little, caused intense anguish--anguish, not doubt. —  Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air
• Again a cry bursts from the wounded heart, seemingly of anger against her informant, really of anguish--anguish, not for her own sinking hopes, but for the burden of disappointment and failure which she instinctively perceives must, sooner or later, fall on the husband who is thus throwing away life in vain So it goes on, through all the ever-darkening problem of her married, yet unmated, life. —  The Ethics of George Eliot's Works

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