With her fists, she hit at his chest, crying out with the deep hurt of his abrasive pressure.

But broken bones would be a deeper hurt, and what had burned his elbow was a rocket nozzle.

One is tempted to speculate that his loneliness stems from some deep inner hurt suffered in childhood.

"My deep hurt had been that what he wanted for us, his daughters, was not the same as for my brother," she says.

At least it removed her dread of being laughed at, though the deeper hurt of an outraged ideal remained.

But he felt a pang: a deep reproachful hurt in his heart.

Then Detective Pastorella went home to discover a deeper hurt.

He knew better than to be wounded by the tone: it came from some deep hurt of her own; but it stung, all the same.

A deep hurt was in his face and manner, and they were hesitant to intrude upon it.

He and Julia had long suspected Eleanor of harboring some deep inner hurt which she refused to discuss.