He was no longer choking, but pain blossomed heavily inside him.

The pain blossomed again, but the past receded to its proper place.

A second later, like a photographic delay, the pain and fear blossomed, and all he wanted to do was get out of the way.

Pain blossomed all through me, finding a home at the base of my spine, radiating outward.

Pain blossomed across Jareth's chest and he fell back hard onto the cold, ice-slicked rock.

New, fresh pain blossomed, shattering all the old.

For a second it seemed almost of no note; and then the pain blossomed, like an anemone, from the point I had driven into my palm.

A crippling pain blossomed deep in his gut.

Pain, unexpected, blossomed in me like an old acquaintance come to visit, the scent of crushed ferns filling my nose.

Fiery pain was blossoming in her feet.