He stood once more, agonized with doubt.

She saw him again agonizing in the flames.

Say what the use, were finer optics given, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore?

She had a sensible face, now that I observed her naturally, as it were; and her hands,how I have agonized over those hands on the stage!all knuckles and exaggerated veins, clutching her dress as she sang, or, petrified, outstretched to Leonore's "Pourquoi ces larmes?"her hands were the hands of an honest, hard-working woman who buckrams her own skirts, and at need could scrub her own floor.

She agonized after the belief that they were two of Patsy's sweethearts, come for the commendable purpose of serenading her.

How is it that Athens and Rome still agonize to-day, unable to spring afresh from their ashes and renew the splendor of their ancient glory?

Here our martyr Latimer preached patience to friar Forest, agonizing under the torture of a slow fire, for denying the king's supremacy; and to this place our martyr Cranmer compelled the amiable Edward, by forcing his reluctant hand to the warrant, to send Joan Bocher, a silly woman, to the stake.

The egoists may be the martyrs of a nobler dispensation, agonizing for a more arduous ideal.