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

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

From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut

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

"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

"Where is she?" asked Henry, sinking back at the doctor's reproof, and heeding not the darting pain his attempt to rise had produced.

From Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue by Ashton, Warren T.