Pained

Examples

• Forgive me, if I have unintentionally pained and shocked you, I replied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You have quite lost that harassed air which it often pained one to see in your face a few months ago. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Dr. Johnyou pained me afterwards: forgiven be every ill--freely forgiven--for the sake of that one dear remembered good! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Of sacrificing myself I made no difficulty but my heart is pained by what I see; it _must_ have and give solace. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I have been pained by her manner this morning, and cannot get the better of it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The sight of Betsey brought the image of little Mary back again, but she would not have pained her mother by alluding to her for the world. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I was pained at this, and sat still watching the operation of the fire. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Mrs. Yeobright turned in pained surprise. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is true she had neither strong feelings to overcome, nor tender feelings by which to be miserably pained. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He could look nowhere except at the choir in the little gallery over the vestry-door: Dorothea was perhaps pained, and he had made a wretched blunder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was startled and pained. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have not yet been pained by finding any excessive talent in Middlemarch, said Lydgate, bluntly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He pained and chagrined me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I was pained to find him taking this tone, and he observed it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Caroline was usually pained to require or receive much attendance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her daughter, feeling by turns both pleased and pained, surprised and not surprised, was all silent attention. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Holmes was silent and buried in thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds himself in a perplexing position. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was pained at the mistake, for I knew how keenly Holmes would feel any slip of the kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They said, 'You have pained me; you have outraged me; you have deceived me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Do not let me be pained by hearing any thing more on the subject. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• You shall not be pained by me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What I endured in so beholding herbut I have no right to wound your feelings by attempting to describe itI have pained you too much already. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Typist: Steven