agony of remorse

In an agony of remorse, he leaned over her-and now she smiled.

In an agony of remorse, he forced strength through his frozen muscles and hauled again on the rope.

He felt again the unaccustomed agony of remorse.

She had clung to it even whilst her father knelt at her feet in an agony of remorse.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

There are references to "secret agonies of remorse," "witchcraft," an "awful darkness" and strange visions.

An angel soiled by crime, she lied like Satan himself, but like him too she suffered all the agony of remorse and pride.

All my projects of reform, all my agony of remorse, made way for a ferment of very different feelings.

He fell to his knees before her, gathering up her small fingertips in his, pressing them to his lips in an agony of remorse.

Few writers are better at describing the ways in which bad men do evil things and forgive themselves, while good men do nothing and suffer agonies of remorse.

The poor little cripple had spent the last few days in an agony of remorse, whilst the heavy travelling chaise bore her farther and farther away from Paris.

And he suffers, as the original Frankenstein did, agonies of remorse, as well as a persistent sense that he is being pursued by his own unnatural creation.

I quit the chair on which I have hitherto been leaning carelessly, and I prostrate myself in an agony of remorse on the pavement of the church.

He could have cried out in an agony of remorse, and it was the groan of acute soul anguish which escaped his lips that drew Marguerite's attention to his presence.

They suffer agonies of remorse on realising that they have injured their Master; for he is their God; they know themselves to be part of him, their aim is to attain to absorption in him.

Until that time you will not take communion, you will not be confessed or hear confession or any part in any service . . . ." Joseph's shoulders began shaking with the agony of remorse that possessed him.

"The agony of remorse that followed was something beyond description, beyond any suffering of which I had ever dreamed; but suddenly a thought flashed upon me which added new horror, causing me to spring to my feet cold with terror, while great beads of perspiration gathered on my brow.

"No; Miss Polly would let concealment prey on her damask cheeks and still smile on in the novel fashion, or turn sister of charity and nurse the heartless lover through small-pox, or some other contagious disease, and die seraphically, leaving him to the agonies of remorse and tardy love."

I endured agonies of remorse for sins which I knew I had committed, and for others which I was not certain about, yet was sure that they had been set down against me in a book by an angel who was wiser than I and did not trust such important matters to memory.