Meanings of tearless agony in English

He thought that in his time he, too, had known such tearless agony.

She turned and stood-such a picture of tearless agony!

I said, just blasphemously, for in that moment of tearless agony all my moral values collapsed.

Mothers in tearless agony clasped their children to their bosoms, with the old, old cry, "Father, Thy will, not mine, be done."

Marilla's impassioned grief, breaking all the bounds of natural reserve and lifelong habit in its stormy rush, she could comprehend better than Anne's tearless agony.