Ottala couldn't analyze it; she only knew that she felt his intensity as a pressure under her rib cage.

It used surprisingly strong, blunt-fingered hands to press up under her rib cage.

Daniel twisted the knife free, found the spot he was looking for just under Baldwin's rib cage.

The realization that he did not stand entirely alone helped to still the flutter under his rib cage.

Maybe that's why that nervous feeling was playing around under my rib cage.

He inserted the knife neatly under his rib cage, cutting across in a quick movement, and withdrew it just as suddenly.

Living under his rib cage: a strange, partial resurrection.

I'd slashed the skin on his left side, under his rib cage.

Just then someone shoved a dull knife up under my rib cage.

But recently he has experienced "a small worm of dissatisfaction," which "gnawed away just under his rib cage."