18 Metaphors for agonies

" He groaned like a man upon a rack, and the agony of that cry was proof conclusive of his abject surrender.

I have more martyrs in your walls Than God has; and they cannot sleep; They are my bondsmen and my thralls; Their wretched lives are full of pain, Wild agonies of nerve and brain; And every heart-beat, every breath, Is a convulsion worse than death!

Agony was stern paddler of the Dolphin, the most important position next to the Captain.

Agony is a tame word wherewith to express what that life meant to me.

A very agony of self-abasement will be no armor against the poisoned shafts which assumed superiority will hurl against me.

The present agony and crisis of Holland was not the time for calling upon the House for a ratification of this treaty.

In all this thinking there was no thought but for himselfnot one for the woman whose agony had been patent even to his wrath-blinded eyes.

Pass on: one agony long-drawn Was merrier than your mirth, When hand-in-hand came death and dawn, And spring was on the earth.

I wish I thought these people were really Tyrolese peasants, wood-carvers and potters, and that all this agony was only a play.

It is a piece of inspired acting to make the discriminating weep, but my friend the audience always giggled irresistibly, as if the sound of rending lace, when a woman's agony was the most intense, were a bit of exquisite comedy.

But the agony of suspense had been too greatOriana, with a convulsive shudder, swooned and hung like a corpse upon Harold's arm.

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To the Winnebagos it seemed that Agony was already a Torch Bearer beyond compare, but Nyoda's inner voice of wisdom whispered, "Not yet."

" Once more Agony was the camp heroine, and her tent was crowded all day long with admirers.

Defeat is bitter when it comes swiftly and conclusively, but when defeat falls by inches like the fatal pendulum in the pit, the agony is a little out of reach of words to define.

But these things are often unknown to the world, for there is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

The man, who in the beginning of such a career, might shudder at the idea of taking away the life of a fellow-being, might soon have his conscience so seared by the repetition of crime, that the agonies of his murdered victims might become music to his soul, and the drippings of the scaffold afford blood to swim in.

Agony was a born leader, there was no doubt about that, but Nyoda knew that she was not yet ruler over her own spirit.

18 Metaphors for  agonies