Then time passed for her in a long agony that shut and sealed every other door of her mind.

That long agony was reduced to a niche and a wall.

He was dying obviously, but the long anticipated agony didn't kick in.

The long agony was behind him, and he lived again.

After a while she had felt, not better, but resigned to the long bitter agony of mourning.

To me the evening was a long cold agony of shyness.

"And there's not going to be any long drawn-out agony of Vietnam."

Had he lived, the country might perhaps have been spared the long agony of the apartheid years.

But for those who feel and conceive life as a long agony, the question of salvation is a simple one.

You cannot imagine the long agony of this voyage, and not knowing what had happened.