Bodily inconvenience and
mental anguish may be included, but the average courts are not, as a rule, swayed by sentiment.
Having brought their conversation to this satisfactory end, they parted: Dennis, to pursue his design, and take another walk about his farm; Miss Miggs, to launch, when he left her, into such a burst of
mental anguish (which she gave them to understand was occasioned by certain tender things he had had the presumption and audacity to say), that little Dolly's heart was quite melted.
He could imagine the man's
mental anguish as he became weakened from hunger and maddened by thirst, knowing that sooner or later he must slip exhausted to the ground where waited the gaunt man-eater.
In that brief instant I believe that I suffered more
mental anguish than I have crowded into all the balance of my life before or since.
O--O--O!"--and, with groans, she fell on the floor, like one crushed and writhing under the extremity of
mental anguish.
Poor Perry never was a raging lion at heart, and I am convinced that the terrors of that awful period must have caused him poignant
mental anguish.
The haunting ghosts of the
mental anguish that had left him an altered man--so altered that there were times when he had feared for his sanity!
'In the first transports of her
mental anguish, the suffering mother threw herself on her knees at my feet, and fervently sought the Almighty Being who had hitherto supported her in all her troubles to release her from a world of woe and misery, and to spare the life of her only child.
Doubtless there may be men who have been sentenced, who have suffered this
mental anguish for a while and then have been reprieved; perhaps such men may have been able to relate their feelings afterwards.
He appreciated this woman, and the sentiment of this appreciation, stirred by a display of something resembling emotion, only added another pang to his
mental anguish. When her voice ceased he moved uneasily, and said:
Ofttimes she imprisons an executioner with the condemned, that death may come in a certain horrible form upon a given day, or again but enough food is deposited in the chamber to sustain life but the number of days that Issus has allotted for
mental anguish.
"D'Artagnan, my good Porthos, D'Artagnan is coming, and will detail it to you in all its circumstances; but, excuse me, I am deeply grieved, I am bowed down with
mental anguish, and I have need of all my presence of mind, all my powers of reflection, to extricate you from the false position in which I have so imprudently involved you; but nothing can be more clear, nothing more plain, than your position, henceforth.
mental anguish - sustained dull painful emotion