In the Midwest the floods may be cresting, but the agony of loss has only begun.

A day later, the real agony began.

Another hand signal: abruptly the wire loosened and the agony began to drain away.

An endless moan of frightened agony began rising up into the night, growing in intensity.

Only four years after this success, the club's terminal agony began.

Six hours after it began, the agony began to ease, and in another hour it was gone.

For him the true agony was just beginning, but that did not matter.

For many, the worst agonies of the war were now beginning.

In her heart Anne knew that the agony was just beginning, but she had no time to dwell on it.

Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness.