darting pain
Example Sentences
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The complaint ended in a stifled moan induced perhaps by some darting pain, then without further ado Ma Briskow unbuttoned one shoe and removed it.
From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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 Basil King
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 W. B. Maxwell
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 Lydia Estes Pinkham
"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 Warren T. Ashton
