The only sharp pang that I suffered was the feeling that I should be broken-hearted and that I was not; that I should care and that I did not.

The private pang was Albion's gen'rous care, For him she breath'd a warm accepted prayer.

Henry's pang at leaving home was mainly the pang of parting with his mother.

But this must not be; and turning to take leave on the threshold, I said "Be sure I shall come to no harm; and if I did, the worst pang of death would be the memory of the first sharp words I have spoken to you, and which, I confess, were an ill return for the inconvenient expression of your affectionate anxiety.

But oh, what form of language can impart The frantic grief that wrung Aciloe's heart, When to the height of hopeless sorrow wrought, The fainting spirit feels a pang of thought, Which never painted in the hues of speech, 145 Lives at the soul, and mocks expression's reach!

The pang I had felt had been bitterness at having lost Jane, not bitterness against Jane for having made a second-rate marriage.

The pang that he felt was the torture of offended pride.