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Sentences starting with pains

Pains came and went, and at times I felt like a fagot flung into the fire,--I, who had never known a sick day. [9]

Sentences ending with pains

I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
They flocked to Toul to see and enjoy this fright and embarrassment and defeat, and they had their trouble for their pains. [5]
Next he passed to the head, and described in vivid colors, its various pains. [10]
When there, she said slowly, "That is what makes me sad and sorry," and she pointed to the Semaphore upon the Hill of Pains. [11]
Friends tried to reconcile them, but had their labor for their pains. [5]
All of these people stared at me, talked about me, ran into the huts and fetched out their families to gape at me; but nobody ever noticed that other fellow, except to make him humble salutation and get no response for their pains. [5]
It seemed to penetrate into the very bones of the shrinking wayfarers, and to rack them with cold and pains. [12]
But Joan was on hand, and so they had their journey for their pains. [5]
He will get nothing for his pains! [2]
The world was noble, now its sordid casement Glows but with garish folly, and the plains Of rich achievement lie in mean abasement-- Ah, Hope is only midwife to our pains! [11]

More example sentences with the word pains in them

This is now your case; which, as I have said, pains me not less than it does you. [7]
You all of you forget that his heart is sore, and that the slightest vexation pains him. [10]
I have not yet got rid of the pains in my chest and back. [14]
There's few that would have took the pains with you that I have. [5]
But verily she would do yet more, and spare him the pains of reading it. [10]
The steamboat men will take pains to make them grow. [7]
The future historian, who spared no pains to be accurate, falls into the most extraordinary anachronisms in almost every chapter. [6]
It is probable we shall ease their pains in a few days. [7]
But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shewn by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? [1]
Those who seek vain pleasure in England take more pains to enjoy it than they would spend in New England to gain wealth, and yet have not half such sweet content. [4]
The motive that urged you to bestow them is pleasing in the sight of the Lord, I acknowledge; but as I said before, your charity was too paltry for you to be released from your pains because of it. [10]
So evanescent and unstable are men's works in this world!--the late good King is but three weeks dead and three days in his grave, and already the adornments which he took such pains to select from prominent people for his noble bridge are falling. [5]
He had been too successful from the start; he had had all his own way; and he had taken no pains to make or keep friends. [11]
I was put to very small pains to rout my instructor out of all his positions, because indolence, and lack of interest in the question, and contempt for the Americans, had made him neglect the study of it. [9]
It pains me to report the events which took place when the master made his rash attempt to maintain his authority. [6]
My uncle's manner to me was now of studied kindness, and he was at greater pains than before to give me no excuse for offence. [9]
He took pains to cure a Macacus rhesus, which he had kept for five years, of this indecorous habit, and at last succeeded. [1]
My numbness began to be penetrated by shooting pains, and I grasped little by little the fulness of my calamity, until I was in the state of wild rebellion of one whom life for the first time has foiled in a supreme desire. [9]
When I got this hoe I was troubled with sleepless mornings, pains in the back, kleptomania with regard to new weeders; when I went into my garden I was always sure to see something. [4]
The sight of the stake sent physical pains tingling down the nerves of my body; and yet, turn as I would, my eyes would keep coming back t it, such fascination has the gruesome and the terrible for us. [5]
Take pains over the smaller cases, and the larger cases will come of themselves, eh? [9]
I have taken the pains to point out these things in a general way, for obvious reasons. [9]
Now, you know the pains and penalties you are liable to, and so I need not dilate upon them, but I have a proposal to make to you. [12]
He remembered only the dull gray weather now rainy and now snowy, internal physical distress, and pains in his feet and side. [2]
I took pains that they should be so. [7]
Finally we noticed that the wind had risen, and we forgot our thirst in a solicitude of greater importance; for, the lake being quiet, we had not taken pains about securing the boat. [5]
The least thing that pains you hurts us too, and you, in return, may not remain indifferent to what we feel. [10]
Thus he might tell all his kith and kin in Nuremberg henceforth to cease their spying and prying, which had already cost her more pains and writing than enough. [10]
Mr. Walpole could tell a deal, tho' he took the pains first to explain that he was becoming too old for such frivolous and fashionable society. [9]
Nor had she taken pains to hide the sarcasm in her voice. [9]
I have, therefore, taken great pains to advise other persons laboring under the impression that they were gifted beings, destined to soar in the atmosphere of song above the vulgar realities of earth, not to neglect any homely duty under the influence of that impression. [6]
He was not suffering at the moment, though the pains came now with alarming frequency and violence. [5]
It pains me some that this tilt for the place of Colonel Baker's friend grows so fierce, now that the Colonel is no longer alive to defend him. [7]
Why, Tom, it shows that the Lord took as much pains makin' this Desert as makin' the United States and all them other countries. [5]
You'd have had shootin' pains if you'd a went to the meetin'. [9]
The Rebel emissaries, sent over to solicit intervention, spared no pains to impress upon the minds of public and private men and upon the press their own views of the character of the contest. [7]
But doesn't it seem a little odd, Mr. Crocker," she continued, appealing to me, "that a man should take the pains to advertise a trip to Europe in order to gratify a whim of this sort? [9]
The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. [14]
Then people will say: 'Would not Phaedime be as beautiful as this proud woman, if she had taken the same pains to make herself so? [10]
Now, as I say, I have taken laborious pains to so trim this book of offense that you might not lack the nerve to print it just as it stands. [5]
In politics party-organization saves us the pains of much thinking before deciding how to cast our vote. [6]
She had tacitly said herself that under the bitter pains of the rack they would be able to extort a false confession from her. [5]
But in this respect he was to be gratified, in the usual way things desired happen in life--that is, by taking pains to bring them about. [4]
In one portrait-group representing (as each of these pictures did) an entire Corps, I took pains to count the ribbons: there were twenty-seven members, and twenty-one of them wore that significant badge. [5]
For, at the question, curtains seemed to drop from all around me, and leave me in the midst of pains and miseries, in a chill air that froze me to the marrow. [11]
But he was profuse in his references to those from whom he borrowed,--more profuse than many of his readers would believe without taking the pains to count his authorities. [6]
He says "the President's overweening jealousy would admit of no exercise at arms, or fortifications but the boughs of trees cast together in the form of a half-moon by the extraordinary pains and diligence of Captain Kendall. [4]
She, too, at present, has frequent pains in the side. [14]
But there are people, and plenty of them, to-day, who will dispute facts just as clear to those who have taken the pains to learn what is known about them, as that of the tide's rising. [6]
Howbeit, let that pass: I stand by my word, albeit the pains I shall endure in the winter journey. [10]
She took no pains with her manners or with delicacy of speech, or with her toilet, or to show herself to her husband in her most becoming attitudes, or to avoid inconveniencing him by being too exacting. [2]
With what infinite pains were the pedigree and possessions of the Brice family pieced together that day by the scattered residents from Puritan-land in the City of St. Louis. [9]
Does he take pains to inform himself by reading and conversation with experts upon its probable effect? [4]
He took great pains to give us all the information we needed, and expressed the hope, which was afterwards fulfilled, to the great gratification of some of us, that we should meet again when he should return to his home. [6]
I even took pains to facilitate them. [7]
He had taken pains to become acquainted with agricultural chemistry; and the neighboring farmers owed him some useful hints about the management of their land. [6]
Even now the pains shoot through my body when I think of how man after man plunged waist-deep into the icy water toward the farther branch. [9]
Having spared no pains in collecting his materials, he told his story, as we all know, with flowing ease and stirring vitality. [6]
Yet had his pains been for nought, inasmuch as the banished youth had forbidden the traders to tell any one, whosoever might ask. [10]
He was often out of his mind; and then his pains would make him rave and shout and sometimes shriek. [5]
People flocked from other towns, and though, to some who had been cured, their pains and sickness returned, there were a few who bore perfect evidence to his teaching and healing, and followed him, "converted and consecrated," as though he were a new Messiah. [11]
He forthwith went on to say with some pains that his master had made him to use a means by which he might remember the number from all others in case, by ill-hap, the letter should be lost. [10]
By the light of my Queen's eyes have I walked, and pains of hell are my Queen's displeasure. [11]
The later one of 6.15 P.M., suggesting the probability of your being overwhelmed by two hundred thousand, and talking of where the responsibility will belong, pains me very much. [7]
We often had occasion to pity Americans whom we found traveling drearily among strangers with no friends to exchange pains and pleasures with. [5]
Shorter herself had not taken the pains to convey. [9]
And this, with no small pains, I was able to do; and when I was aware that he had suffered no mortal hurt, I clambered up on to the road again, and then once more my heart began to beat sadly. [10]
But we spared no pains to obtain a clew of you. [9]
For there were no cares in that life, no aches and pains, and not time enough in the day (and three-fourths of the night) to work off one's surplus vigor and energy. [5]
Why, no,--she had never taken so much pains with me. [6]
There I bettered my French and made the acquaintance of some ladies from Quebec city, who took pains to help me with their language. [11]
I have felt much less of the disagreeable pains in my chest lately, and much less also of the soreness and hoarseness. [14]
How far in most cases they actually sympathise in the pains and pleasures of others, is more doubtful, especially with respect to pleasures. [1]
Grafton had been misjudged and ill-used, and he called Heaven to witness that the quarrel had never been of his seeking,--a statement which Mr. Carvel was at no pains to prove perjury. [9]
Yet there be mirages, and one day soon David Pasha will come hither, and our pains shall be eased. [11]
He ventured to make the proposal while we were at supper, but got such a harsh rebuff for his pains, that we all pitied him. [10]
That the poor little woman had departed this life we had all heard yestereve; but even the Magister had fully believed that her leavings would scarce be worth the pains of a walk to the town hall. [10]
The Joy of Life, that streaming through their Veins Tumultuous swept, falls slack--and wanes The Glory in the Eye--and one by one Life's Pleasures perish and make place for Pains. [5]
She has one leg much shorter than the other, and it is only with much pains that we have contrived that it should carry her. [10]
There are many ladies, ancient and recent, who are perpetually taking remedies for irremediable pains and aches. [3]
I guess he knows how powerless you are with your shootin' pains. [9]
But, if it's just the same to you, I believe I can get along without the disguise you mentioned, and so save Mr. Crocker his pains. [9]
The regal summer is come and it will smile you into high good cheer; it will charm away your pains, it will banish your distresses. [5]
Yet these pains in her body, this alternate exaltation and depression, this pitiful weakness! [11]
Just then, as if to spare the pains of a reply, a "Jenny Lind" passed them. [9]
As for me, I took pains with my Introduction, and I admit that it is no slouch of a performance. [5]
Well, I believe I have got material enough for the present, and I am very much obliged to you for the pains you have taken. [5]
With infinite pains I have acquired a knowledge of that history, and I propose to narrate it here, partly for the honest information of the public and partly to show that public that they have been wasting a good deal of marketable sentiment very unnecessarily. [5]
You can imagine his disgust, after the pains he had taken to render it unassailable, to find himself, as he expressed it, 'on his own dunghill,' ignominiously beaten. [6]
This lady, with her lorgnette, was examining the faces about her in undisguised curiosity, and at the same time talking to Victoria in a voice which she took no pains to lower. [9]
The pains racked her 50 or 60 hours; they have departed, now--and already she is planning a trip to Egypt next fall, and a winter's sojourn there! [5]
So well did he succeed, he says, that they promised him twenty sail of ships to go with him the next year, and to pay him for his pains and former losses. [4]
In these letters he seldom mentioned the angina pains that had tortured him earlier. [5]
With much pains he deciphered its contents, for his eyes were dim with years, and, having read it, bowed his head upon his hands in silent thanksgiving. [6]
I would fain have spoken a word of warning to Ann when she would thank him with heartfelt and sisterly love for all the pains he had been at, with steadfast patience, to find any token of our lost brother. [10]
Then when he had spoken thus much, with great pains, his pale face turned red on a sudden, and again he asked, as he had many times in his sickness, where was his master's letter. [10]
Presently, when we had many times paced the road to and fro the Pernharts' house, Ann was minded to knock at the door; but behold she was saved the pains. [10]
Moreover, if it had dawned on Augustus Flint that the son of Hilary Vane might prosecute the suit, it was worth while taking a little pains with Mr. Meader and Mr. Austen Vane. [9]
He was at great pains to recommend the Virginia packet, which had made the fastest passage from the Capes; and she sailed, as was no doubt most convenient, the Saturday following. [9]
So she took great pains to equip this brilliant but inexperienced young man with everything he could by any possibility need during his absence. [6]

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