With the dispassionate eye and the aching heart of an artist he said to himself that his life work was a failure.
It fell with a melodious jingling that was immediately drowned by Jeff's groans; the saddle was torture to him, and now he was aching in every joint of his enormous body.
My body was dull and aching as if after a severe fall.
In those young days disappointment set my heart aching with a bitterness less easy to bear than it is now.
When at length I leaned out on the cold sill, my work done, wrists and shoulders aching with fatigue, Croomham clock struck two.
I rubbed my aching eyes and lifted myself in a half-sitting posture--a dream had dazzled me and scared my senses.
But, he wondered suddenly, wasn't thisaching sense of need perhaps something utterly different from unsatisfied paternal instinct?
But again the Vice Trust holds out its aching and itching palm and cries for lucrative salve and is anointed with it.
Who can depict the crying, aching hearts of these lost women of the levees?
But at last they were made to fit the shoes, and Everlasting Pearl walked about with sore and aching feet, wondering if they could ever become as small as those of some young girls she knew.
Was there anything that could give her aching heart some comfort, her despairing soul some hope?
His body was aching ever more from the unnatural position in which it lay, and the constant light and silence were growing ever more tormenting.
And after a while some aching need of her soul grew less urgent, and some of the wistfulness left her face.
Her thoughts went back to the honeymoon, and she had an aching memory of Central Park in its fresh green, of Jim laughing at her when she tried to be very matronly, in her kimono, over their breakfast tray.
Julia had been bewildered and heartsick when she turned to The Alexander, but she had never in her life known such anaching loneliness as had been Miss Toland's fate for many years.
Julia always had several chocolates from the boxes that circulated among her elders, and usually went to sleep during the last act, and was dragged home, blinking and whining and wretched, by one aching little arm.
I wasaching to call out her name, to hear myself say "Lucy" as I had once been wont to do, but I was not sure that it would be advisable to let her father hear of my lingering interest in his family.
I can never hear myself singing at prayers in school, though I try till I get that horrid aching in my ears.
She spared him some of her aching pity for herself, and answered steadily: "He must be twenty-eight.
The pillows were plumped almost with a prayer, that they might yield soft rest to the aching head.
Therefore the neat coiffure of the aching head, and the dignified tea-gown of satin and jet.
Any style would be quite allowable, merely as a rest to one's aching brain, after the dreadfully keen encounter between Lord Saltire and Father Mackworth, recorded above.
The rising dews chilled the fragile form, but stilled not the wild throbbing of the aching heart.
You know not the peace they convey to my aching heart.
Would that the dewy turf were spread O'er this frail form andaching head; That this torn heart and tortured brain Would never wake to grief again.
Only by making a positive duty of cheerfulness is it practicable sometimes for the mother to conquer the weariness and languor, the aching head, and the loathing for food, that are so frequently a woman's morning portion.
He writes: "I was aching to get home; yet for want of a vessel was kept at Palermo for three weeks.
When he left off crying, he held hisaching head with his brown hands.
But when its sun shines on it, through its whole dead crust a throbbing yearning wakes: the trees feel him, and every knot and bud swell, aching to open to him.
No use, we can't break it down," said Slim crossly, nursing his aching hand.
Migwan, who had been Judy, fled to the kitchen for a drink of water to relieve her aching throat.
Let us build our streets of gold, and they will hide as many aching hearts as hovels of straw.
A journey was not grudged, even if one aching spirit were to be soothed.
Sometimes it is the bitter trial, the crushing pang of bereavement--desolate households, and aching hearts.
How sad the case of those whose lot God has made thus to abound with temporal mercies, who have gone to the grave unconscious of diminishing one drop of human misery, or making one of the world's myriad aching hearts happier!
Again and again I cast out my line with aching arms, and drew it back empty.
The old love of home had waked in me as I wandered in the places of my boyhood, and for the first time I learned the aching of the hearts of those who had known more of home than I, and would lose it.
So I forbore and sat down, leaning my aching head against the cool wall, to wait for Olaf's return.
As soon as her patient's aching foot was eased Peggy opened the door and peeped out.
I don't feel like talking, and my foot is aching dreadfully.
Well, I admit it; but I've been aching to tell you I've turned into another kind of farmer since then.
Oh, I'm aching to get into boots and ride and tear around.
