"Anguish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anguish nor crushed with—Why, the idea! I'm perfectly furious! I ran away because I was afraid of you, and I haven't seen my husband once, not once, do you understand, since we were married. ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... Nelsen suffered the awful anguish of indecision over a joke of circumstance. Like most of the others, he had tried to get into the Force. He had given it up as hopeless. Now, when he was ready to move out on his own, the chance came. ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... intervals, and completed the disorder. In the mean while, the huge bodies of the Germans were exposed almost naked to the dexterity of the Oriental archers; and whole troops of those Barbarians were urged by anguish and despair to precipitate themselves into the broad and rapid stream of the Drave. The number of the slain was computed at fifty-four thousand men, and the slaughter of the conquerors was more considerable than that of the vanquished; a circumstance which proves the obstinacy of ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... saw that Miss Falconer was close beside me. Good heavens! Why, I though in anguish, wasn't she already upstairs? But I knew only too well; she wouldn't desert her champion. It was probably too late now. Blenheim, much congested as to countenance, seemed on the point of springing; his battered aids were struggling up in menacing, if unsteady, fashion; and Mr. Schwartzmann, ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... she closed her eyes in sleep; She left us for a little while; No more our lives would know her smile. And oh, the hurt of it went deep! It seemed to us that we must fall Before the anguish of it all. ...
— All That Matters • Edgar A. Guest
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