Pang

Examples

• You are very kind not to reproach me, she said: I weep, and a bitter pang of intolerable sorrow tears my heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then let it be so,' rejoined Rose; 'it is but one pang the more, and by that time I may be enabled to bear it better. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mr. Osborne dropped it with the bitterest, deadliest pang of balked affection and revenge. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I felt the answering pang in my own heart--the pang that told me I must lose her soon, and love her the more unchangeably for the loss. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A terrible pain--a pang of vain jealousy--shot through her: she hardly knew whether it was more physical or mental; but it forced her to sit down. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Indeed, Harriet, it would have been a severe pang to lose you; but it must have been. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It cost her a pang even to think of giving up the little treasures which in her eyes were as precious as the old lady's jewels. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I cannot leave him even now, without remembering with a pang, at once his modest fortitude and his great sorrow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is a struggle,' said Rose, 'but one I am proud to make; it is a pang, but one my heart shall bear. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• This morning the pang of waking snatched me out of bed like a hand with a giant's gripe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He reddened deeply, as if his natural generosity felt a pang of reproach. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Nor would she but for the mortal pang I had given her pride, that cowed her compassion and kept her silent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Clara, visited by an human pang, pale and trembling, crept near him--he looked on her with an encouraging smile--Do you fear, sweet girl? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To these pangs were added the loss of Perdita, lost through my own accursed self-will and conceit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My family don't feel my pangs of conscience. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was obliged to hurry away; I was kept out late; and I felt all night such pangs of remorse as made me miserable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• What pangs of dim remorse and doubt and shame? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He must have money, no matter how, if he is to escape horrid pains and pangs. Plato. The Republic.
• Brussels, Waterloo, old, old times, griefs, pangs, remembrances, rushed back into Amelia's gentle heart and caused a cruel agitation there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some of the lower classes had rather die than wash, but the fumigation of strangers causes them no pangs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It seemed to be drawing itself together with strange, violent pangs, in blind effort. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Food, however, became scarce; and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The happiness--the superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpressible pangs of envy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It marked one of her supreme moments, the supreme pangs of her nervous gratification. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Before, she had been visited by pangs of fear--now, she never enjoyed an interval of hope. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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