agony vs gripe

agony

noun
  • Extreme pain. 

  • Violent contest or striving. 

  • Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. 

  • The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. 

  • The last struggle of life; death struggle. 

gripe

noun
  • Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines. 

  • A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. 

  • A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. 

  • The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. 

  • The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. 

  • An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted. 

verb
  • To suffer griping pains. 

  • To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. 

  • To annoy or bother. 

  • To complain; to whine. 

How often have the words agony and gripe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )