ache

She had dreaded her loneliness with the ache that is despair; but she was not lonely any more.

It made his eyes yearn for the sight of her with an ache that was physical.

For my own part I was now feeling the ache of numerous and severe bruises.

Many years ago she died, but the ache comes back now, as I think of her.

"Your father is nothing but an ache and a stound to you, lass," Sim would say in a whimper.

I'd be nothing but an ache and a stound to the lass, as I've olas been—nothing but an ache and a stound to them all.

Philip's own throat rose at the sight, and his breast began to ache.

Her head began to ache, as it always did when a serious conversation was at hand.

I rose and stretched myself with an ache of luxurious languor.

You are the only man I have ever loved so much that it was an ache.