darting pain

Example Sentences

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"Yes," replied he, trying to conceal his emotion, "a sudden darting pain seized me, and—Pray excuse my interrupting your kind and sensible discourse, and be pleased to proceed."

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

I felt madness in my blood; felt its darting pain through my brain.

From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut

He laid a finger upon his stomach, and Glass felt a darting pain at precisely the same spot.

From Going Some by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

She added, with a catch in her breath like that produced by a sudden, darting pain, "I know he won't."

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil

The pain may begin as a dull, heavy ache, which gradually changes into a sharp, darting pain, and which culminates at last in distinct and positive attacks of uterine colic, or cramps.

From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Pinkham, Lydia Estes