By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache.

As she did so, everything else suddenly fell away: the murmur of conversations, the people walking past; even the fresh and painful ache in her heart.

Only now and then did she miss Gus, though then she missed him with a painful ache and felt almost desperate to see him.

The price was a painful ache in her leg.

An almost painful ache caught in his throat.

But all at once a painful ache constricted her throat.

He became aware of a painful ache in his ears.

The tunnel went on and on, and the constant crouch built an increasingly painful ache in his back.

Through the clouded temple bells, he could almost hear again that painful ache in his head.

Yet instead of feeling the painful ache in her chest that had always accompanied these memories in the past, Kerri felt calm and at peace.