agonising pain

Everyone suffers from them - and for many people they mean days of agonising pain.

There was a sudden, agonising pain in the left-hand side of his chest.

And no one man's weight, Smith realised, could have caused that agonising pain in his shins.

An agonising pain, far worse than the baby's kicks, sheared through her belly.

Stunned and faint, with the agonising pain intensified, Tarn stumbled through the open door.

While in hospital, in order to stem the agonising pain, he was given three or four shots of Demerol a day.

Instantly, agonising pain lanced up into Fish's head.

She wouldn't say anything, vowed Isabel, gritting her teeth against the agonising pain in her side.

In agonising pain, he managed to make his way back to his hut where he lay semi-paralysed for four days.

I did so, and felt an agonising pain in my tongue as he clamped a pair of rusty pliers on it and pulled.

Just before midnight he again had agonising pain, and woke a flustered Emma to ask for the amyl nitrite.

Platypuses are also venomous, with males having a hollow spur full of poison that can cause agonising pain in humans and kill a dog.

A hooded figure crawls to the corpse and drinks the blood, then moves towards Harry, who is knocked out by an agonising pain in his scar.

And then something inside her seemed to explode, an agonising pain as though she had been delivered a physical blow, throwing her back against the wall behind her.

Then muscular stiffness suddenly develops, the patient is in agonising pain - just like cramp in the leg - and she shows signs of insecurity when walking.

In September 1967, Holt had suffered a recurrence of an old shoulder injury, which reportedly caused him agonising pain, and for this he was prescribed strong painkillers.

He listened to her, and was moved to a distant pleasure and a sharp and agonising pain, but not moved to submit himself or purge his rebellion.

An agonising pain in his lower abdomen had Bob Ingleton doubling up and clutching desperately at the hand which twisted the knife blade deep into his intestines.

Unfortunately for Byrne the game went to extra-time and Gerry, despite the agonising pain, kept making his familiar marauding runs down the left flank in joining the attack.

There was a crack, and the agonising pain that stunned and sickened him was enough for Tarn to know that his shoulder had also fractured in the onslaught.

This even though one of them has a spine that consists mostly of bits of metal and can't walk to the loo without agonising pain - oh, and he has cancer too.

However, responses were played by a pre-recorded CD which the teacher could hear coming from the other room, apparently showing the learner to be in agonising pain and pleading for the experiment to stop.

The reference to Francis Bacon is spot-on, although I always think Bacon's use of distortion (in paint) gives a sense of agonising pain - this doesn't; somehow it seems tranquil.

He heard it sawing on the ropes which bound his wrists, a faint vibration, and then the tension was gone; his hands were free and for once there would be no agonising pain when his circulation returned.

Meanwhile, reports The Daily Telegraph, Dr David Wynne Evans a Welsh GP says he has the solution to the agonising pain of the Weaver's sting - forget morphine and pethidine and instead apply very hot water.