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smarting
1. In spite of my slow recovery from the beating, with the aches and bruises still smarting but fading, I was now eager to be up and off every morning and every evening
2. There are tears smarting in my own eyes
3. He can still feel the sharp, smarting pain of Maggie's slap
4. Lying in the bed, Chrissie muffles a scream as she feels again the smarting of the cuts he inflicted to her arms and hands as she fought to defend herself
5. The tears in her eyes are like chlorine now, smarting and stinging
6. Jean was still smarting over their lost opportunity when
7. Smarting from the latest hit, I watched as Pete pointed to
8. Poor Faith went home from school feeling her very soul raw and smarting within her
9. As if smarting from the exchange, “Bring the rest of my contingent and meet me over there! And you!” he waved a finger at Mahli
10. Lorna did as she was told and climbed to the top of the steps, her eyes smarting from tears as well as from the sudden bright light after the complete darkness of the cellar
11. because of the pain smarting across his face, which he still hadn’t
12. With eyes smarting tears of misery, I yearned for just one breath of fresh air
13. "OK, Major—only smarting here and there
14. He’s still smarting from the other deaths and us cutting him out of the true skinny
15. Her bruised wrists, her smarting body were forgotten in the teeth of this menace which she dimly felt threatened not only her body, but her soul as well
16. The United States, which had aspired to become the dominant world power, has in fact been smarting for years under British military and economic dominance
17. Now smarting from the loss of all my CBC relationships and income, not to mention that Bonnie had warned me to lay low on a number of occasions, I decided that I should erase myself by the numbers this time, and for the right reason
18. Now smarting from the loss of all my CBC relationships and income, not to mention that Bonnie had warned me to lay low on a number of occasions, I decided that I should erase myself by the numbers, but for the right reason this time: I was more than half-way there, because I had been assessing my crappy experiences for their underlying cause for months, and working on determining what would have been the impeccable thing to do
19. As Goering was smarting over Hitler�s vote of non-confidence, Von Kluge tried to protest the cutting down of his invasion force but was silenced by Hitler�s dark look
20. All that remained between the Western Allies and Berlin was Eisenhower himself; moreover, it had become apparent that he was heavily influenced by his senior commander Bradley, who was still smarting from his embarrassment in the Ardennes and sought to redeem himself
21. He was still smarting from his first disappointment of the day when he’d compared the new set of keys with those on Grant Tripp’s key ring for the cold store
22. cheerily from the foot of the steps, clearly unaware I was still smarting over being abandoned by him
23. “Whatever,” he said still smarting, “how can one suppress aspirations?”
24. ‘Where there is a will,’ she said still smarting under the hurt of the perceived let down, ‘there is a way, isn’t there?’
25. Smarting under un-
26. “Sage,” he said, looking around, his eyes smarting
27. She walked out the room swallowing hard, her eyes smarting, 190
28. “Could Pearson have not only taken Sage but my parents too?” he thought, his eyes smarting
29. He lifted a hand to his smarting jaw, pressing his tongue against his teeth to check if they were loose
30. But when a guest departs feeling like this, and when the hosts are left with a distinct sensation of smarting, the visit can't really be called a success
31. Our eyes, filled with dust, were smarting long before we got to the yet fiercer blaze of Sassnitz; and it was when we found that the place is all chalk and white houses, built in the open with the forest pushed well back behind, that with one accord we decided not to stay in it
32. Caesar turned, remembered the dog's name again and settled back down, still smarting somewhat from the hostility in the word
33. He was still smarting from the last time they had had dealings and while the force had escaped the media criticism he had dreaded, once again it was a case of a bigger story developing which reduced the body in Three Fathoms Cove to but another possible murder, he was not prepared to meet further requests without a full detailed explanation, and if possible a direct instruction, from at the very lowest the Secretary for Security who was his policy secretary
34. Smarting from that she reciprocated with a shove
35. smarting from his confrontation with Macleary
36. His English chef dubbed the preparation, "Wellington Steak," his Gaelic counterpart across the Channel, still smarting from Napoleon's defeat, simply called the it, "Filet de Boeuf en Croute
37. He must be coming for another reason, probably still smarting about his lost coins
38. “We’ve met,” Smith was still smarting from the car accident after leaving Pike’s house
39. I jumped in startlement at the smarting contact of his hand with my bottom
40. salt which had been rubbed into his wounds had by its smarting preserved his
41. smarting with the effects of its rage; but behold it now! crest fallen,
42. Which takes me by surprise, but it smells heavenly, too, and the initial smarting pain soon ebbs away
43. THEY FELT THAT THEY WERE SMARTING UNDER THE
44. It was "rather hard lines" that while he was smarting under this disappointment he should be treated as if he could have helped it
45. With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame
46. He had no clew to the state of Will Ladislaw's mind, smarting as it was from the clear hints of Raffles, and with its natural quickness in construction stimulated by the expectation of discoveries which he would have been glad to conjure back into darkness
47. I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one
48. Besides, his brother’s widow had died the year before, still smarting from rancor but without any heirs
49. 00, you would be smarting pretty badly and maybe even stopped out
50. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the particulars of my night’s adventure, and I sprang to my feet with the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers