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Sentences starting with painful

Painful as that was it was not that which tormented Pierre at the moment. [2]
Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities of failure in what he has undertaken. [6]
Painful as they are, they are not an unlooked for sorrow. [7]

Sentences ending with painful

By stopping here we had the misfortune to lose our excursion, a loss that was soothed by no know ledge of its destination or hope of seeing it again, and a loss without a hope is nearly always painful. [4]
Wouldn't it be useless as well as a little painful? [9]
A day or two after his second visit to the district attorney's office Mr. Greenhalge had a call from the city auditor and the purchasing agent, who talked about their families,--which was very painful. [9]
Of all the trials which those who take charge of others' health and lives have to undergo, this is the most painful. [6]
There were others to whom this growing reality was painful. [11]
When he came to the point where Rudyard went from the house, leaving Stafford to deal with Fellowes, she burst again into laughter, mocking, wilful, painful. [11]
The converse of this is perhaps still more painful. [6]
Her books bore testimony to this; for there was a look of sadness in the faces she drew, and a sense of weariness and longing for some imaginary conditions of blessedness or other, which began to be painful. [6]
The silence, the tension grew painful. [11]
While we are still young we feel a kind of pride, a sort of fierce pleasure, in any important experience, such as we have read of or heard of in the lives of others, no matter how painful. [8]

Short sentences using painful

It sounded rather painful. [9]
His discomfiture was painful. [9]
It can only be painful. [4]
It was hard and painful. [10]
It becomes painful. [4]

Sentences containing painful two or more times

We shall skip over the painful interval that elapsed before the bill in question was reached: painful, at least, for every one but Mr. Crewe, who sat with his knees crossed and his arms folded. [9]
But most painful of all to the volunteer nurse was the sick man's manner; for though Herr Casper rarely regained perfect consciousness, he showed his unfriendly disposition often enough by glances, gestures, and words stammered with painful effort. [10]
He made, before he went elsewhere, a somewhat painful visit to Philadelphia, painful but yet not without its sweetnesses. [5]

More example sentences with the word painful in them

I doubt whether your present position is more painful to you than to myself. [7]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
But I, I--If you--" At the same he threw up his hands and gave a dull, painful cry. [10]
Therefore I entreat you to forget the armlet and its many painful associations, and pass to the consideration of other matters. [10]
He flushed joyfully yet with painful distress. [2]
But it is yet a thousand-fold more painful to feel that the love which every woman has a right to possess for herself alone, must be shared with a hundred others! [10]
The events of yesterday; painful and agitating as they had been, had fallen away in the prospect that lay before him--he would see her to-day, and speak with her. [9]
Her heart beat with short, quick, painful jerks; an invisible burthen weighed upon her and prevented her breathing freely. [10]
He looked up with a painful smile. [11]
I was filled with a painful curiosity to know what had become of her, which I repressed. [9]
I have no wish to express any harsh feeling with regard to the painful subject which has come before us. [3]
It was a wild and ear-splitting tumult; to Melissa, however, neither painful nor pleasing, for the one idea, that she must speak with the great physician, silenced every other. [10]
Her arm through which the bullet had passed was painful, but she took no heed of it. [11]
Her dying struggles were painful and protracted. [4]
I am--your--hunter,' he went on, speaking with slow, painful emphasis, 'and I shall make you mine. [11]
As Dr. Leigh went her daily rounds she encountered painful evidence of the financial disturbance. [4]
My brother is well--I have no feeling against Captain Moray on his account; and as for spying--well, it is only a painful epithet for what is done here and everywhere all the time. [11]
If the situation was trying for him, it was painful for her. [11]
How painful, too, was the feeling that she was being examined to discover whether the Abbess Kunigunde had any share in her change of purpose! [10]
Her malicious triumph was past; nothing but painful thoughts and grewsome images haunted her while awake, and pursued her more persistently when she dozed. [10]
My eye afterwards was frequently turned to that convent with painful interest. [4]
But when it was discovered that those lumps were melted half dollars, and hardly melted at that, a painful case of "salting" was apparent, and the undersigned adjourned to the poorhouse again. [5]
At first nothing was clear to me; my brain was dancing in my head, my sight was obscured, my body painful, my senses were blunted. [11]
Of course there was a great variety of comment, its character depending very much on the sense, knowledge, and disposition of the citizens, gossips, and young people who talked over the painful and mysterious occurrence. [6]
The old man waited for a minute in a painful silence, then he turned slowly round, and, with tight-pressed lips, looked at the woman in the rocking-chair. [11]
I had a very sweet emotion of self-pity, which took the sting out of my painful discovery that the orchestra of my pleasing life-entertainment was unstringing its instruments, and the lights were being extinguished,--that the show was almost over. [6]
Paaker's hand was very painful, and fresh rage was seething in his soul. [10]
The parting was very painful to him, and when Hermas saw his eyes full of tears and felt his hands tremble, he said, "Do not be troubled about me, Paulus; we shall meet again, and I will never forget you and my father. [10]
It was a very painful separation. [5]
It is a very hard thing to say, and I did not say it even to my wife, but I had a painful impression that she was valuing people by the money they had, by the social position they had attained. [4]
But it soon vanished and a great and painful restlessness seized upon her. [10]
He remarked, somewhat unsteadily, that to prolong the controversy would be useless and painful to all concerned, and he infinitely regretted the necessity of putting his suggestion that the rector resign in the form of a resolution . [9]
Richard, can you understand what it must be to have a father whom one is never likely to see again--whom, if one did see again, something painful would happen? [11]
This was in truth a painful effort, for the sand crumbled away again and again under his feet, slipping down hill and carrying him with it, thus compelling him to find a new hold with hand and foot. [10]
No one knows"--she trembled under the painful inquiry of his eyes. [11]
Together they sped towards the mine, little groups running beside them, muttering those dark sayings which, either as curses or laments, are painful comments on the relations of life on the lower levels with life on the higher plateaux. [11]
But she detected, too, an occasional painful movement of Mrs. Falchion's lips, a kind of trouble in the face. [11]
The position was too painful, too tragic, for even the great emotion in her heart. [11]
That brought me to the most painful scene of my life, when I had parted with Dorothy at the top of the stairs. [9]
Evidently Natasha needed to tell that painful yet joyful tale. [2]
It is painful to relate that the irregularity and deceit of the life the Vicomte was leading amused her, for existence at Silverdale was plainly not of a kind to make a gentleman of the Vicomte's temperament and habits ecstatically happy. [9]
It was unpleasant to Prince Andrew to meet people of his own set in general, and Pierre especially, for he reminded him of all the painful moments of his last visit to Moscow. [2]
All this had to pass away in a little time; I had chosen my profession, and must meet its painful and repulsive aspects until they lost their power over my sensibilities. [6]
He said it to Mrs. Gregory Thorne, whose reply was: "Dear me, and when things are irritating and painful to you do you never think of suicide? [11]
After her visit to Manchester, she had to return to a re-opening of the painful circumstances of the previous winter, as the time drew near for Mr. Nicholl's departure from Haworth. [14]
It was painful to him to deprive any one of his lands and home. [10]
This, however, seemed to her so impossible and painful, so humiliating and shocking, that she sprang from her bed and for a long time paced with bare feet the sleeping-room, which was but dimly lighted by the lamp. [10]
You will have to hear what must be very painful to you. [10]
It is easy to grind out the song, but to plant these bristling points which make it was the painful task of time. [6]
She was surprised to find that the idea of doing so was painful to her. [9]
My knee at times was painful, and cold, hunger, and incessant watchfulness wore on me vastly. [11]
For the first time since she had known him, praise of Austen was painful to her. [9]
But after a time consciousness returned; the wounds, though painful, were none of them dangerous, and the most alarming effects of the accident passed away. [6]
His mother had tied up his hand, which Rameri had severely hurt; it was extremely painful, but he would not have missed the banquet at any cost, although he felt some alarm of the solemn ceremony. [10]
Each fervent word thrilled with the wild and painful agitation that was torturing his soul, and sounded heartfelt and sincere. [10]
Still somewhat exhausted, though his head was clear, he would not be hindered from receiving the deputation for which he had important matters to decide; but this fresh attack of rage revenged itself by a painful headache. [10]
The death-scenes of those we love are surely painful enough; but these we are prepared for and expect to see: they happen to all, and all know they must happen. [7]
There was one thing now troubling me sorely, even in the painful joy of having her here close by me. [11]
For one moment there was silence, a little awestricken, a little painful, and then as from one man a great cheer went up. [11]
For a moment there was a painful hush. [11]
Would it not, then, be much less painful to have the question decided by mutual friends some time before, than to snarl and quarrel until the day of election, and then both be beaten by the common enemy? [7]
They carefully guarded their open wounds from any rough and painful contact. [2]
The sight recalled their last meeting and its painful termination, and therefore he had omitted to attract Frau Katharina's attention to her immediately. [10]
To while away the time he began to whistle to himself, and what with whistling, and what with winking and talking to the lantern on the table, and calling himself painful names, he endured his captivity well enough. [11]
Their pleasure in the thought of seeing a more fortunate sister humbled, vanished at the painful news that their beloved prince was condemned to death. [10]
The strain of the situation was a little painful for them both. [11]
She felt herself the richer by a painful experience, indignant, and offended. [10]
I drew with the red chalk, and mixed the colors with the grinder, and all the while I could not feel the painful sense of painting a corpse. [10]
I know what the painful point with you is at all times when you are unhappy; it is an apprehension that you do not love her as you should. [7]
Once or twice the old man had taken his hands in both of his own, and gazed with painful eagerness into his face, as though trying to remember or to comprehend something that eluded him. [11]
It was not the less painful now that Carmen knew that Henderson knew her to the least fibre of her self-seeking soul, and that she felt that there were currents in his life that she could not calculate. [4]
In front of the Hotel Trois Couronnes a painful thing was happening. [11]
When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart. [2]
Antoinette had inherited the energies as well as the features of the St. Gre's, yet there was a painful moment as she stood there, striving to put down the agitation the sight of me gave her. [9]
The doctor examined the document very deliberately, during a painful pause.--Then he said, without any show of interest: "Ah--Ferguson--what--what did you say was the name of the party who wrote this? [5]
The return of the business partner, without whose knowledge he had incurred great financial obligations, would have placed him in the most painful situation. [10]
Gorgo sat by the bed of her apparently lifeless father, gazing fondly at the worn and wax-like features, and listening to his breathing, now soft and easy and again painful and convulsive, as it fluttered through his nostrils. [10]
So it was that, with bowed head, Angele left the room with the Queen of England, leaving Lempriere and De la Foret gazing at each other, the one bewildered, the other lost in painful reverie, and Leicester smiling maliciously at them both. [11]
The attorney added that the duty of the jury, however painful it might be, would be plain and simple. [5]
He thought now that she must have known of his deformity before she came--the world was so full of tale-bearers--and no doubt had long since reconciled herself to the painful fact. [11]
The subject of that letter is exceedingly painful to me, and I cannot but think there is some mistake in your impression of the motives of the old men. [7]
This, I think: that it has restored to life a subject who had essentially died ten deaths a year for thirty years, and each of them a long and painful one. [5]
All the ceremonials that his position required of him, the cleansing, purification, shaving, and fasting he fulfilled with painful exactitude, and the outer bespoke the inner man. [10]
I only knew that he had none, and I didn't ask, for I had a notion that it might be a painful subject. [8]
At Gibraltar a telegram had come telling of the painful sensation, and the yacht was instantly headed for England; Mrs. Gasgoyne crossing the Continent, Delia preferring to go back with her father--his sympathy was more tender. [11]
She described, with tears in her eyes, how painful their parting had been, and laughed again, as she told how an ivy leaf in her hair had nearly betrayed everything to her father. [10]
I left them talking to Roscoe, he wearing such a look on his face as I like to remember now, free from distress of mind--so much more painful than distress of body. [11]
I offered to take upon myself this painful task; but she altogether rejected this, and how rightly she judged was presently proved by her cast-off suitor's demeanor; inasmuch as he was ever after her faithful servant and called her his gracious work-fellow. [10]
Any sign of surprise or amusement on the part of the domestics would have given them some painful moments subsequently. [11]
A weird, painful suggestion crept into his brain: he was not responsible for her, and he was responsible for a woman up there by the hospital, whose home was the valley of the Chaudiere! [11]
Then the stranger suddenly disappeared, and Liebig, with the painful feeling of being considered a very uncivil fellow, was obliged to let the Thursday pass without accepting the invitation so important to him. [10]
The most painful subjects are the unfortunates that have lost a cover. [6]
It is the subject of the most painful solicitude with me, and I feel constrained to beg that you will countermand the withdrawal. [7]
The more he studied over the matter, and looked into the evidence, the plainer it was that he must lose a case at last--there was no getting around that painful fact. [5]
It made too strong a contrast to his gloomy soul, and it even seemed as though the course of the sun, in its beaming, unattainably lofty path, mocked the hapless, painful obstruction to his own motion. [10]
He placed the strap binding his wrists against these sharp edges, and drew his arms up and down, a difficult and painful business. [11]
Laennec tells the story of a convent, of which he was the medical director, where all the nuns were subjected to the severest penances and schooled in the most painful doctrines. [6]
Once at a standstill they all seemed to understand that they did not yet know where they were going, and that much that was painful and difficult awaited them on this journey. [2]
I have not spoken at all of my wounds, though they gave me many painful hours, and I had no attendance but my own and Gabord's. [11]
Austen may be spared a repetition of the very painful conversation that ensued; suffice it to say that, after mature deliberation, violets were chosen. [9]

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