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Pained in sentence

58 examples of Pained in a sentence

Wait – listen!' she implored with a look of pained commiseration.
He is now under the Countess Lydia Ivanovna's influence.'Dolly, sitting upright in her chair, with a pained expression of sympathy turned her head to follow Anna's movements.
But Levin had forgotten that, and it pained him to see these good men, whom he respected, in such an unpleasant, malevolent state of excitement.
'Oh, no!Well then, forgive me! forgive me if I have pained you,' said Oblonsky with an embarrassed smile, holding out his hand.
'So I have no real firmness of character,' he told himself; and this was the doubt that pained him most.
"No, it can't happen again," she agreed, and smiled at K. in a way that was almost pained.
"Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom but not without looking back at the body.
Madame Raquin, who in her goodness of heart, felt pained at this attitude, sometimes said to the young man: "Do not pay attention to the manner of my niece, I know her; her face appears cold, but her heart is warm with tenderness and devotedness."
They observed one another with timid embarrassment, pained to remain so silent and cold.
At table, Madame Raquin was pained to see her always rising to fetch the dishes; she was touched and annoyed at the activity displayed by her niece; she scolded her, and Therese replied that it was necessary to economise.
If it was my ankles that pained me there might be something in going divining why they did, but it is not much to divine that I'm sore where they thrashed me.
Holmes was silent and buried in thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds himself in a perplexing position.
Marianne spoke inconsiderately what she really felt--but when she saw how much she had pained Edward, her own vexation at her want of thought could not be surpassed by his.
Elinor was alternately diverted and pained; but Marianne persevered, and saw every night in the brightness of the fire, and every morning in the appearance of the atmosphere, the certain symptoms of approaching frost.
What I endured in so beholding her--but I have no right to wound your feelings by attempting to describe it--I have pained you too much already.
"I have been more pained," said she, "by her endeavors to acquit him than by all the rest; for it irritates her mind more than the most perfect conviction of his unworthiness can do.
Do not let me be pained by hearing any thing more on the subject."
Her daughter, feeling by turns both pleased and pained, surprised and not surprised, was all silent attention.
It pained the engineer to see his forces divided, for it gave great advantage to the pirates.
Candide, with the greatest submission, prepared to obey the commands of his fair mistress; and though he was still filled with amazement, though his voice was low and tremulous, though his back pained him, yet he gave her a most ingenuous account of everything that had befallen him, since the moment of their separation.
Both man and wife responded with the little movement of pained surprise,genuine or false, but always ready, with which such news is received.
If he had learned the secret of hisbirth through any other channel he would assuredly have been very wrothand very deeply pained, but after his quarrel with his brother, afterthe violent and brutal betrayal which had shaken his nerves, theagonizing emotion of his mother's confession had so bereft him of energythat he could not rebel.
For a whole month they had not known what had become of la Esmeralda, which greatly pained the Duke of Egypt and his friends the vagabonds, nor what had become of the goat, which redoubled Gringoire's grief.
The light pained her so acutely that she shut her eyes.
It was known that she continued to love Nero with a sad and pained love, which lived not in hope, but only in memories of the time in which that Nero was not only younger and loving, but better.
He was too much of a Roman yet to be pained by another man's suffering, and to occupy his attention with one wretched Greek.
Smoke pained the eyes; breath failed in men's breasts.
If I were at Paris I would come and ask after you myself; if my son were here I would send him; but I can not leave C., and Armand is six or seven hundred leagues from here; permit me, then, simply to write to you, madame, to tell you how pained I am to hear of your illness, and believe in my sincere wishes for your speedy recovery.
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