The grizzly was in his death-agony, nothing more; yet in that final convulsion he could rip into shreds the powerful form that opposed him.

Finally, if the bear had not been all but dead, in his last, threshing agony, Ben's mortal strength could not have sent home one blow.

The grizzly turned his head, caught sight of Ben, identified him as the agent of his agony, and lurched forward.

Here he sank down from his seat, and rolled himself in agony upon the floor.

So saying, he pressed his sinewy hands upon his face, and buried his head between his knees, till the rock beneath him seemed to shake with his uncontrollable agony.

Liszt fell into a period of atheism which, to his constitutionally religious soul, was agony.

Wagner's friend, Roeckel, wrote to Praeger in reference to the agony Wagner suffered from the gibes of criticism: "I keep it always from him; Minna is not capable of withholding either praise or blame from him, although I have tried hard to prove to her that it deeply affects her husband, whose health is none of the strongest.

One day his servant heard him calling, and, hastening to his side, found him on a divan writhing in agony; his last words were: "Call my wife and the doctor."

" "Oh!" cried Virginia, in a low voice of agony, and fluttered to her lover's side.

[Illustration: The Sea-Bird] Far, far o'er the deep is my island throne, Where the sea-gull roams and reigns alone; Where nought is seen but the beetling rock, And nought is heard but the ocean-shock, And the scream of birds when the storm is nigh, And the crash of the wreck, and the fearful cry Of drowning men, in their agony.

Allegorical symbols, like Prudence with two faces, and painful episodes of agony and anguish, marred her work of beauty.

The masterpieces of the Bolognese and Neapolitan painters, while they pretend to quicken compassion for martyrs in their agony, pander to a bestial blood-lust lurking in the darkest chambers of the soul.

Woe-begone | mother, half | anger, half | agony, Over thy | shoulder thou | lookest to | hush the babe, Bleakly the | blinding snow | beats in thy | haggard face.

From the suffering victim himself nothing was heard but an inarticulate groan extorted by his agony.

Toni, on his part, appeared in an agony of shame before this woman who was looking at him defiantly.

Now it was the mark of the gunshot wound, the coup de grâce that brought the death-agony of the executed girl to its end.

Thanks to this apparatus, their death agony was going to be prolonged a few hours more.

She went in an agony of self-reproach, desiring more and more knowledge, a perfect, inalienable, indestructible possession of the German language, and wondering whether it were right to satisfy that indomitable craving.

After all the agony and indignation that has gathered round this episode, it is clear enough now, down to the last sordid details.

She might as well have censured Anne for drawing out the agony.

I think I cried out here for very agony.

All these things, and the prairie folk huddled trembling in their homes, a mute agony of fear racking their small bodies.

Wild range cattle were herded, a scared bunch of restlessness, during long, hot forenoons, or longer, hotter afternoons, while calves that had known no misfortune beyond a wet back or a searching wind learned, panic-stricken, the agony of capture and rough handling and tight-drawn ropes and, last and worst, the terrible, searing iron.

380 The illustrious wife of Roland, in the hour Of her composure, felt that agony, And gave it vent in her last words.

And to think of seein' the Via Dolorosa, the Way of Sorrows, that He walked, carryin' the agony of humanity, and the pityin' compassion of divinity.