Fighting painful constriction, she lunged upward, striving for air, and life.

A painful constriction surged through her abdomen.

My chest gave a painful constriction.

A painful constriction seized Fairlie's heart.

There was a painful constriction in his chest where the crash harness could not have touched him.

'I can see that it does,' she said tightly, against the painful constriction of her throat.

Kahlan swallowed past the painful constriction in her throat.

He felt a painful constriction in his throat; he wanted to cry.

He stared up at it, aware of painful constriction across his chest, the probing eyes.

A painful constriction of his lungs roused him, and he realized he had been holding his breath, scarcely daring to realize.