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Georgie stood out there longer than was comfortable, until her breasts ached from the chill and her hair felt as though it was shrinking.

Excerpt: Dirt Music by Tim Winton 2002

Every inch of me ached from the long hours of wandering and of mental anguish, and I was grateful for the rest which the car afforded me.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

Both his head and kidneys ached from the soup of chemicals he’d drank, sniffed and injected with the woman now sleeping naked in the next room.

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Both his head and kidneys ached from the soup of chemicals he’d drank, sniffed and injected with the woman now sleeping naked in the next room.

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They were the thoughts of an elderly and irritable genius, whose bones ached from the Russian winter just as much as his hurt pride.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

They were the thoughts of an elderly and irritable genius, whose bones ached from the Russian winter just as much as his hurt pride.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

They were the thoughts of an elderly and irritable genius, whose bones ached from the Russian winter just as much as his hurt pride.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

They were the thoughts of an elderly and irritable genius, whose bones ached from the Russian winter just as much as his hurt pride.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

People who are "born tired," who are neurasthenic and easily fatigued and "ached," are probably in a chronic state of self-poisoning due to some defect in their body-chemistry.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

The runners-upWill Moorfoot, 14The white light engulfs me in its warm surreal glow…Sweat poured profusely down my reddened face; my entire physique ached more and more by the second as I pushed my body to the brink refusing to give up.

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