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
She imagined his agony of mind after his fall, and what it must have meant for him to live away in the wilderness, cut off from all the benefits of civilised life.
From If Any Man Sin by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)
Mr. Wasson says that as he awoke he was covered with cold sweat, and in an agony of mind.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
The girl had her hands over her eyes, and was weaving back and forth, as if in great agony of mind.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
Juliet was now in an agony of mind indescribable.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
