No one can make me believe that it is to be ascribed to this scandalous Government, under which we agonise.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
The regenerated will endure and rejoice; the unrepentant sinner will agonise, and he must flee from before the Face of Christ, because the agony that he feels is the dispersal of his imperfect soul; and where shall the sinner flee, where shall he go to find happiness?
"The Prodigal Returns"
Lilian Staveley
But when the twilight was grey in the desolate corridors, the wretched girl wandered out into the gallery on which her father's room opened, and hovered near that solemn death-chamber; fearful to go in, fearful to encounter the watchers of the dead, lest they should torture her by their hackneyed expressions of sympathy, lest they should agonise her by their commonplace talk of the lost.
"John Marchmont's Legacy, Volume I (of 3)"
Mary E. Braddon