pangful

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This pangful love, so pure, so vain.

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  1. Full of pangs; tortured; suffering. Overwhelmed with grief and infirmity, he bowed his head upon his pangful bosom. Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, VII. 224. (Davies.)

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  • This pangful love, so pure, so vain. —  Victories of Love
  • Some greatly pangful penance would I brave. —  The Unknown Eros
  • Feelingly how the pangful, purging fire —  The Unknown Eros
  • The cool wind still blew like whispered consolation for a great, a pangful loss, but it could not soften the hard hearts of those who had stood with lips to the fountain of life and been denied. —  Trail's End
 

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