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Meanings of painful suspense in English
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Usage of painful suspense in English
1
Key and his companions waited in painful suspense to know the result.
2
During this painful suspense, Hawkhurst was bound and made to sit down.
3
Anton started in amazement, while Bernhard watched him in painful suspense.
4
The painful suspense of the next few minutes made them seem like hours.
5
Six months of painful suspense passed, and yet no tidings of Mr. Judson.
6
The public mind seems to me to be in a state of painful suspense.
7
A thousand hearts throb with deep emotion, in painful suspense to learn the result.
8
For the next few moments there was a silence of sustained and painful suspense.
9
But why do I keep you in such painful suspense?
10
Oh, what days of restless and painful suspense to Agnes!
11
It was within an hour of dinner-time, and in painful suspense she waited his arrival.
12
The moments of painful suspense went by, and he still stood as if struck down.
13
Two more weeks of painful suspense and anxiety passed.
14
Long after this, Mrs. Darlington, with Henry and Edith, were sitting together in painful suspense.
15
We uncoupled it in the middle of the bridge, and with painful suspense waited the issue.
16
This created a painful suspense, and, to cool observers, the policy of the Government appeared inexplicable.
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