It might have been because he heard, or just a response to the agony in his body.
By the end of the second day and night, the misery had turned to agony.
In fact they would be just as likely to turn to the agony aunt pages of a magazine.
I've never known the disease lead to madness or such awful agony.
A funeral for her grandson, she said, may only add to the agony.
Whatever the reason, now your back is "out," and you're wishing for something, anything, that will put an end to the agony.
The sight dragged him back to the present and the agony returned.
I saw them, but all my attention went to the agony that was my left hand.
Longed for an end to the agony she was suffering, but knew it could not be.
She pushed up to seek an end to the agony he stirred inside of her.