The dead pain in the semilunar ganglion (which I must remind my reader is a kind of stupid, unreasoning brain, beneath the pit of the stomach, common to man and beast, which aches in the supreme moments of life, as when the dam loses her young ones, or the wild horse is lassoed) stopped short.

Of this one Divine, wherein we all live and live forever, pain is no less the minister than pleasure; nay, pain is more its minister, since pleasure has already given its message to the natural man.

Pain is an excessive stimulation of the sensory nerves, and in it all finer sensations are lost.

Pain was a sluggish stream with source high in her breast, and it moved with her unquickened blood.

The hardest struggle was against my mother's tears and pleading; to cause her pain was tenfold pain to me.

It cut her face and she felt that the little pain was a relief.

This awful pain that was all over her was the lightning from which they had willed to save her.

The pain of cauterizing cankered tissue, which is a necessary operation, is infinitesimal (canker largely destroying sensation), compared with the pain produced in the totally unnecessary process of tearing healthy horn from a highly sensitive tissue.

"There is no medicinal cure for gout," said he; "pain is a mere symptom, and colchicum soothes that pain, not by affecting the disease, but by stilling the action of the heart.

Oh for a vigorous fit of gout, colic, toothache,an earwig in my auditory, a fly in my visual organs; pain is life,the sharper the more evidence of life; but this apathy, this death!

not indulge your sorrow; try to drive it away by either pleasure or pain; for, opposed to what you are feeling, many pains will become pleasures.'

" "If," said Mrs. Leroy, "pain and suffering are factors in human development, surely we have not been counted too worthless to suffer.

But your pain shall be your power; you shall be the life-bearer; you shall hold the motive; yours shall be the desire, and your husband's the dominion.

It has its pang of parting, and its pain of new birthall birth is a struggle full of painbut it is the only door to the future.

I thought of times when Pain might be thy guest, 15 Lord of thy house and hospitality; And Grief, uneasy lover!

And so they loved; if that tumultuous pain Be love,disquietude of deep delight, And sharpest sadness: nor, though he knew her heart His very own,gained on the instant, too,

Never till John Hammond's coming had she felt a pang of envy in the contemplation of Lesbia's beauty or Lesbia's grace; but now she had so keen a sense of the difference between herself and her sister that she began to fear that this cruel pain must indeed be that lowest of all vices.

The pain was not a twinge, it was not an ache, it was just a faintly simmering, vaguely hurting thing, enough to keep a man awake.

Pain is not the object of contrivanceno anatomist ever dreamt of explaining any organ of the body on the principle of the thumb screw; it is itself productive of good; it is seldom both violent, and long continued; and then its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures.

Pain and drivelling are the usual, but by no means the general, indications of teething. 2511.

The pain in my hip was such agony that I feared to look.

Not pain, not temper, but the unconscious yearning for companionship, for mother-love, is oftener the motive of the pitiful cry.

As soon as consciousness supervenes on the lower forms of life it is evident that the pleasures of sight, hearing, taste, mind, and affection all depend on, and consist in, the consciousness of this successful accommodation of the subject to the object; and that all pain and disease is simply the felt failure of such adaptation.

It gave her perpetual pain: and yet that pain was a perpetual joya perpetual remembrance of him, and of that walk with him from Tolchard's farm.

Oh for a vigorous fit of gout, colic, toothache,an earwig in my auditory, a fly in my visual organs; pain is life,the sharper the more evidence of life; but this apathy, this death!