Here darkness seems a spectred thing, Voiceless and haunting, while the stars Mock with a light of long dead years The ache of present suffering.
My bones ache as if I had been working in the vineyard all day.
Gentle as she was, she had adopted the ruthless and ungrateful Italian custom of ascribing every ache and pain of the body to some almost imperceptible change in their too beautiful weather.
Several young farmers to whom Belle had given a heartache a few weeks before volunteered to watch beside her until the funeral, and there was a deeper ache in their hearts as they sat reverently around the fair young sleeper.
Sometimes he makes me ache from laughing over his funny descriptions of the queer characters that live about here.
Now that you are with us once more, I learn that the ache in my heart was caused not so much by losses and the prospect of poverty as by loneliness and the feeling that you were left to struggle by yourself.
They are so particular, you know, that I fairly ache from trying to walk in the strait and narrow path which is so easy for them.
It was the first time they had met during the evening, and something she saw in that quivering face made her heart ache with the old numbing agony.
Say, she had me sittin' with my chin up and my arms draped in one position until I had a neck-ache that ran clear to my heels.
The ache at her heart made disappointment harder to bear, and Miss Caldecott's offer of help seemed at present of little value.
By nine o'clock Philippa was wan and spent, and went off to bed, trying in vain to reason away the acheat her heart.
But ever he was warring with the same fierce courage; despite an ache and bewilderment in his honest heart at his son's treason.
But the hurt always gave Lad that same twinge of pleasure--a twinge that helped to ease his heart's ache over the defection of Lady.
But what a difference there always is between the tooth ache and the pain (sympathy) that the spectacle of tooth ache occasions!
The little coquette had the heart-ache terribly, till he frightened it away by telling her of the adventure which Danforth had met with among the Indians, and of his departure with Arthur Jones in search of aid from the nearest settlement.
Patsy was forced to hold her sides with the ache of it.
There was a dull ache at her heart which she attempted neither to explain nor to analyze; it was there--that was enough.
Those had been her words, and for twenty years the grass had grown over that grave; and yet, on this September night, the ghost of her old love had haunted her, and the ache of the old pain had made itself felt.
It makes me ache all over to love you so hard;" and then Bet rested her rough, tangled head against her father's shoulder.
But, Thorold, it makes my heart ache to see her, poor child!
I say, Mr Burne," cried Lawrence laughing; "is your back beginning to ache already?
But in addition to patches of golden hue there were tracts of mauve and scarlet and crimson and blue, till the eyes seemed to ache with the profusion of colour.
Looking repentantly at Piney, he felt a suddenache for him.
Again Bruce was conscious of a little ache for the boy.
Since he had come to know the tramp-boy better his first ache for him had become sharper and sharper.
Your aunt was took before the time came; never had an ache to mention.
Those who go ashore to pity, return with the dull ache of envy in their worldly hearts; for there be things on the Yukon that no worldly heart can understand.
At least a corpse was no drain upon the slender purse of a beloved sister; and the gnawing ache of his helplessness and uselessness would be stilled for ever.
She believed he cared more for her than for any one else; and, if so, was it possible the ache sometimes in her heart for a closer bond and resolutely strangled, had no counterpart in his hot, vigorous youth?
The last thought caused her eyes to grow a little strained, as she walked quickly westwards - strained with the determination to face the fact unflinchingly, and try to overcome the deep, insistent ache it caused.
When necessity had not driven her, loneliness had, and the gnawing ache of a fine, fearless soul to grasp some satisfaction from the sorry scheme of things.
She had not seen Hal for a year, and she felt an ache for her.
Phyllis is glad to let me have it sometimes, her arms get tired and ache so.
And they sot out and made her look so bad it fairly made her ache to look at herself in the glass.
He would stand in Jenny's room with its quiet books and flowers, and his heart would ache to think that some day harsh hands must noisily break in upon that sacred silence, and strip it of all its delicate memories.
And Jenny's once rosy apple of a face made one's heart acheto look on now.
He forced himself to speak of home in the careless tone of one who has nothing to hide, but the words left an ache in his throat and a dull heaviness in his chest.
He acquired a row of callouses on each hand and a chronic ache in his back, but beyond that he did not accomplish very much.
If lovers could be summoned as opportunely in real life as they are in stories, hearts would not ache so often and life would be quite monotonously serene.
His arm was like to ache frightfully before they covered a quarter of the fifteen miles, but he did not mind that much; besides, he guessed shrewdly that the pinto would travel better once they were well out of town.
That ache seemed to be the last real thing left about him, anyhow.
He thought of those burned bridges, of the uncertainty that lay ahead, of the tumbling of the old temple about his ears-- And doubt came up from the ache in his throat, from the call of his nerves.
Through the clamoring of his heart a familiar ache came into his throat, and the boy lifted his voice into the night with a rant of rage, of self-denunciation.
