darting pain

Example Sentences

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As she draws a deep breath, she places her hand, with a spasmodic movement, to her left side, as though to quell some darting pain that lies there.

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

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

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

But soon those treacherous nerves restored themselves, the upper and lower parts of him were all one again, and the diffuse yet darting pain returned.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.

"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