There was a raw ache through my lungs.

I reached up with my good hand as if it could sooth the raw ache of my throat from the outside.

Sabrina raised a hand to her eyes, fighting the tears, the raw ache in her throat.

A raw ache of discontent emanates off the pages of her best works, starting with her precocious first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1940).

In the raw ache of losing so many he loved, he found solace just in his memories of her.

Now, however, as year advanced into year, and the raw ache of loss and failure began to subside, he wondered if it wasn't something more insidious than that.

Uhura couldn't answer, newly aware of the raw ache in her throat.

After a time, the throbbing eased to a raw ache; she tried again to rise, more carefully this time, and succeeded in holding her head in a way that did not aggravate the wound again.

Then suddenly and sickeningly he felt the pain again, and the deep raw ache of it frightened him.