I was up in an instant, and with a ringing clash an object had fallen at my feet and struck my leg a smart blow, which pained me considerably.
In any other state of mind I should have been pained to find the unfailing evidence of her frivolity side by side with the mark of affection she had given me by coming.
It made man a mere object, a thing capable of being affected by other things through his faculty of being pained or pleased; an object acting in obedience to motives that had an external origin, just like any other object.
And a week ago she would very likely have told him, laughingly, to hang his English customs; but now she looked both pained and puzzled, as she begged him to explain to her the harm in what she had said.
Alfred was pained by his young wife's tone; he had never before heard her speak so strangely, and her eyes were wistful.
Though pained to deny or gainsay thee, In this case I cannot obey thee, Thou voice from the tomb!
She was grateful for the kindness, but she was too offended and pained by the position in which she had been placed to be easily reconciled to herself.
It is a great thing to lock up chambers in one's soul, and sit down by the closed doors, lest some apathetic or unkind ear should hear the pained cries you only want time to smother.
His eyes moisten as he thinks how pained she would be, were she living, to know him now.
She was a visitor who had been in the house only a few days, and, herself a devoted Christian, had been greatly pained by the utter disregard of the family in which she was sojourning for the teachings of God's word.
As for Elsie, she scarcely thought of her new finery, so troubled was her tender conscience, so pained her little heart to think that she had been wandering from her dear Saviour.
There was such a lack of repose in her manner that even those who loved her most were pained and troubled.
I am pained and humiliated beyond measure by this communication.
What pained him insufferably was the feeling of humiliation with which the proud fair one must now, as he imagined, think of him, and which he, with his present bitter contempt of Roquairol, entertained so much the more strongly.
That his very love was to be the blazing sword which pierced through her life: O, he dwelt upon that so constantly; that pained him so!
In passing over the country, and searching the mind of the Spirit in reference to its inhabitants, my heart is pained in contemplating the dark, dreary and bloody fate and scourge that await this nation.
My heart is pained to see their follies and wickedness--their gross darkness and superstition.
A Mr. Hauteval whose fortune lay in the island of St. Domingo" called on Gerry and revealed how pained Talleyrand was that the envoys had not visited him.
You will not, I am sure, be pained at this allusion to past unwillingness.
The next morning I sought an interview with Harry, and was deeply pained to see the change that had taken place in his appearance.
DEAR SIR--I know you will be surprised and deeply pained to learn that the trustees appointed by Bolivar Bramlett's will have converted the entire estate into cash and fled to parts unknown.
And I was deeply pained to see that Lottie began to limp with her left foot, which I learned was caused by a painful blister which appeared on her instep.
He smiled a pained content as he spoke, and they bore him out into the sun and air.
Dioclesian, and pained to be delivered: and the Dragon, the heathen Roman Empire, stood before her, to devour her child as soon as it was born.
In Diocesian's persecution she cried, travelling in birth, and pained to be delivered.
I am pained to remark here, that this distinguished statesman died soon after his return to the United States.
For instance, we are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
When after a moment he again turned towards Lucille, he saw her leaning against the door post, pale as death and with the same pained expression on her countenance that he had noticed the first day of her arrival.
Now that it is decided that I am to live, I am perhaps quite as much estranged from you as when I rashly uttered the words that pained you so much.
It pained me not to see them, and I was sure that some special circumstance had prevented Blade-o'-Grass at least from attending.
He was pained by her manner, and said, 'My poor child, I have only come here out of kindness, and to try if I could do some good for you.
Mr. Carr saw that he had pained her, and he was evidently not a little anxious to give her no offence.
The action of the Magistracy had grievously pained him, so he informed the superior tribunal, and not only had his rights been set aside, but no regard had been shown for the welfare of his nephew.
It is pitiful that while Schindler is sacrificing himself in almost menial labors, Beethoven forces him to a pained protestation that he had returned the balance of a sum placed in his hands wherewith to make purchases.
He ate but little; his habits, once so precise, became careless and in fact almost brutal; and his brother's pained remonstrance with him only made matters worse.
And then, looking at his pained and startled expression, I could see that he believed I was lying or mad.
I must repeat what I said, Mr Linnell," said Denville in a low, pained voice.
If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it.
Accordingly men are pained when they are called unjust, ungrateful, and greedy, and in a word wrong-doers to their neighbors (vii.
And even if thou art painedbecause thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
