agony of mind
Example Sentences
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They felt her agony of mind as if it were a living thing.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Some people may be able to get through it with little toil of body or agony of mind, but for himself it has been laborious work.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
"Oh! no, no!" cried the child, in an agony of mind far greater than she had shown before: "not my doll's leg;—don't hurt my doll!"
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
Mr Wardley returned to the wagons, and flung himself upon his bed in bitter agony of mind.
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
The jerk cracked one bar of the flake, which was made much like a very slender gate, and it was this sound which Ted in his agony of mind mistook for the smashing of bones.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
