darting pain

Example Sentences

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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

With a sudden sharp howl of darting pain, Tu-Kila-Kila withdrew his hand.

From The Great Taboo by Allen, Grant

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

From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut

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.