1 He looked up in sudden anguished apprehension.
2 For some time there had been an agitation in Washington to confiscate all "Rebel property" to pay the United States' war debt and this agitation had kept Scarlett in a state of anguished apprehension.
3 India shot one more quick anguished look at Ashley, and, wrapping her cape about her, ran lightly down the hall to the back door and let herself out quietly into the night.
4 It was as though a great blaze of electric light had been turned on in her head, and her poor little anguished self shrank and cowered in it, without knowing where to take refuge.
5 And whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: at least the anguished, yet raptured, expression of his countenance suggested that idea.
6 They streamed upwards before his anguished eyes in dense and maddening fumes and passed away above him till at last the air was clear and cold again.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 7 Her mind was too torn with her own anguish.
8 But, Ashley," her voice was beginning to break with anguish and disappointment, "But I'd counted on you.
9 She burrowed her head back into Melanie's thin shoulder and some of the real anguish went from her as a flicker of hope woke in her.
10 This wrongness went even deeper than Bonnie's death, for now the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss.
11 At the word, Lily's face melted from locked anguish to the open misery of a child.
12 The name, as Gerty saw with a clutch at the heart, had loosened the springs of self-pity in her friend's dry breast, and tear by tear Lily poured out the measure of her anguish.
13 He sat in a rocker in the back of a lumber-wagon, his face pale from the anguish of the jolting.
14 That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 15 This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er enjoy.