In a few moments I became insensible, but when I awoke an hour later I was astounded to feel a curious soreness in my ears.

To ease the soreness, Willie would steal grease from the house and together they would slip into the barn and grease each other's backs.

"You think it's only an attempt to heal the soreness of my conscience, don't you?"

We will get us away to the greenwood tree, and there hold a merry feast in honor of our new friends, and mayhap a cup or two of good sack and canary may mellow the soreness of my poor joints and bones, though I warrant it will be many a day before I am again the man I was."

It is not our business to know, but it is our business to prevent our soreness from becoming sourness and bitterness.

They naturally resented being chaffed and held up to ridicule, but as there was nothing of a malicious or private character in the sarcasms published any little soreness they created soon died away.

The sort of chaffing to which he had just been subjected was direct and brutal; it touched all his tender spotsthe very spots wherein he realized the intensest soreness of his deficiencies, and about which, therefore, he was the most sensitiveyet, somehow, he liked it.

The eager Arab rubbed the soreness and stiffness out of his master's body with copious applications of alcohol.

"It's not having to peel potatoes and wash dishes; it's seeming to be despised for doing it that stirs in men's hearts the awful soreness that makes them deserters.

This washing was customary, after whippings, as the planters claimed it drew out all the soreness, and healed the lacerated flesh.

In his own bedroom he undressed slowly and afterward stood for a long time under the shower, rubbing himself down with the care of an athlete, thumbing the soreness of the wild ride out of the lean, sinewy muscles, for his was a made strength built up in the gymnasium and used on the wrestling mat, the cinder path, and the football field.