How To Use Pains In A Sentence

She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
Balzac expended a great deal of pains, and one of whom he seems to have "caressed," as the French say, with a curious admixture of dislike and admiration. The Thirteen
Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
He was later released, but over the next couple of days wasn't himself and complained of chest pains.

The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
Whatever the fate of sense-datum theories might be as general theories of exteroception, their appeal as a model for understanding pains and other intransitive bodily sensations is very strong. Pain
Are you bothered by nagging aches and pains? The Sun
White says no one could fail to understand the strategy, but is at pains to point out that making more money does not mean losing more jobs - quite the opposite.
Objective To observe the clinical effect of PCEA on expulsive pains.
At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Light pains in my chest, the indeterminable gurgle in my stomach, a swaying before my eyes. Books in 2009, #5
However, he is at pains to point out that there is no one author of the canonic interpretation of a particular building; it is developed collectively over time, the cumulative, filtered effect of many previous responses.
Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother, -- [Mother or mauther, a wench.] -- that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all the morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
The patient had complained of vague pains and backache.
He will not use oil and will eat as much as he wants to avoid hunger pains. Times, Sunday Times
Probably the most painstaking part of the job is the scrupulous documentation process.
For several weeks the back of my brain was busy contemplating this daft question, after disassembling the word painstaking in my head. Archive 2006-01-01
Florida escaped the pains of the lagging economy nationwide elsewhere because the state has such a small manufacturing base.
All I got for my pains was a grunt that fitted well with his simian features. DEAD BEAT
He was at pains to stress that there won't be any pressure put on the newer members of the team, saying that he felt there had been ‘too much talk’ about some of them.
Later in that same decade, he began developing the concept of sound on sound recording, first painstakingly overdubbing part after part on a 78 rpm record cutting machine, and then later on magnetic tape.
He has been at pains to assure a sceptical public of various other safeguards to check against the rampant abuses of the disinvestment process.
There were no technicians with the latest equipment waiting to help him decipher the coughs, bellyaches, chest pains, dizzy spells and fevers that ailed his patients.
The brave bride had amazed guests when she made it to her wedding ceremony on time despite being rushed into hospital with agonising stomach pains the night before.
They proved that fungi can be identified in virtually all patients with chronic rhinosinusitis if meticulous, painstaking efforts are taken to procure samples.
Youth movements are charted in painstaking detail. Times, Sunday Times
Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
Divided into sections (the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe), it provides natural history images painstakingly rendered by artists over centuries, which depict new forms of flora and fauna that the European world was just discovering - from the banded krait (a snake) to the white-tailed gnu. 3 books for giving
The sultana's power came from the Bahri Mamluks, whom Aybek took great pains to disband between 1251 and l254.
It is a historical document showing the author's painstaking research and narrative skills.
The building has been painstakingly restored to all its former elegance.
Painstaking effort, three words, a name, a hard, a called function, must keep up your spirits, work hard.
Are you bothered by nagging aches and pains? The Sun
He says it pains him to see workers at the store throw out unsold perishables like roasted chicken at the end of the night. Grocery Store Workers Go On Hunger Strike Over Stagnant Wages
The concrete base of two sheds that have been removed in the back garden were being dug out yesterday afternoon as part of a painstaking search. Times, Sunday Times
Hurts and pains are only temporary. Christianity Today
The top ten resorts guide will be also be published on the Internet, based on even more painstaking investigations into what seafronts offered to visitors.
So began a painstaking operation to replace bolts and an expansion joint on the carriageway taking traffic out of the city, which was completed in 1969.
Chest pains can be a warning signal of heart problems.
There may be a generalized constitutional upset with fever, headache, loss of appetite and weight, and joint pains.
The sources are complementary in identifying and locating toponyms, still a painstaking task, but immensely valuable for any study of settlement patterns.
Psychedelic popsters Grandaddy have had their share of aches and pains over the years.
They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well.
From the vein that passes through the liver two branches separate off, of which one terminates in the diaphragm or so-called midriff, and the other runs up again through the armpit into the right arm and unites with the other veins at the inside of the bend of the arm; and it is in consequence of this local connexion that, when the surgeon opens this vein in the forearm, the patient is relieved of certain pains in the liver; and from the left-hand side of it there extends a short but thick vein to the spleen and the little veins branching off it disappear in that organ. The History of Animals
When so much painstaking medical research has been done, it may seem astounding to most of us that the doctors are still baffled by the cause. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.
These aches and pains are usually worse in the cold. The Sun
Even the ‘archaic’ epodes are written in a style of painstaking elegance.
After two or three days of illness, pains of extraordinary severity develop.
Misery of the most exquisite kind was tearing her heart in pieces, stabbing her throat with long, forklike pains. Rose O'Paradise
This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
The police cast doubt on this story by painstaking work with the records of mobile phone companies.
Chronic use of heels can result -- and usually does -- in some degree of kyphosis-lordosis and related pains in the lower back and mid-upper back. Tim Ferriss: The Barefoot Alternative: Vibram Five Fingers Shoes
Fever, fatigue, aches and pains, and a urethral or vaginal discharge often occur.
Willie McSporran is chairman of the community council, although he is at pains to point out that this does not make his opinion more important than anyone else's.
He puffs and winces, excruciated with chest pains - which recur horribly in joyless mid-coitus with his other woman.
Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly; having nothing but the word 'noddy' for my pains. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
With the painstaking dignity of an all-day drunk, he said: Day of Honey
The event had been planned with painstaking attention to detail.
Diarrhoea, nervousness, rapid pulse, insomnia, tremors and, sometimes, anginal pains indicate the dose is too high.
(The observed precession is really 5270 ''/century, but a painstaking calculation to subtract the disturbances from all the other planets gives the value of 43 ''.) Forces
All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
With this in mind, he painstakingly replanted currajongs taken from the bush to shade his driveway.
His study of tsarist censorship was a quest at once painstaking, costly and without visible reward. Times, Sunday Times
This meant that the ‘total synthesis’ would have produced a mixture of isomers requiring painstaking separation.
The piano and the billiards table have been painstakingly restored. Times, Sunday Times
Analgesics and anti-inflammatories relieve aches and pains and reduce fever.
It took months of painstaking research to write the book.
It obviously pains him to let an ordinary member of the public contribute and he does so as little as possible.
“We first had a feeling of siccity in the pharynx, then intolerable pains at the epigastrium, super purgation, coma.” Madame Bovary
What follows is a painstaking analysis of the grammar of war, the way an army thinks, and what happens to the cities the author has so beautifully described in his other books when they get in the way of generals.
Abdullah would roll his eyes, look at me, and then burst out laughing, knowing that Grandmaman would give him a backshish at the end of the day for all his pains. Apricots on the Nile
A casual viewer might think that the artist has painstakingly built up these colorful topographies with paint alone.
Catnip is best known for treating feverish conditions but is also used for afterpains and other conditions.
A striking, graphic array of evidence in the two books strongly suggests that it was Hodel who, on January 15, 1947, killed actress Elizabeth Short, then surgically cut her in two and transported the halved, nude, exsanguinated corpse — the internal organs kept painstakingly intact — to a vacant lot, where he laid the pieces out as if in imitation of certain Surrealist artworks by Man Ray. California Dreamgirl
And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte. Wilde in the Stacks
People suffer the pains of isolation, loneliness, insignificance and disability while enjoying modern freedom.
But if the bowels are loose, with bilious discharges, tormina, vomitings, a feeling of suffocation, and gnawing pains, it is best to enjoin repose, and to drink hydromel, and avoid vomiting. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
I am also taking pains to distinguish crossdressing from transsexualism.
It took almost a decade of meticulous and painstaking work to empty the tomb of Tutankhamen.
It's involved in glucosamine synthesis for speedier joint repair, and it soothes aches, pains and inflammation.
Then one day at work, I started getting shooting pains along my scar line from my previous birth.
Where Brubeck does fall down is in his overly ornate arrangements, all painstakingly constructed to seemingly draw as many parallels with classical music as possible.
The disease typically manifested itself in a high fever and chest pains.
The birth itself drags on for two nights. During thefirst night labour pains come on the cow elephant and the calf goes to itsfinal birth position.
The whole game took about an hour to play, and was all painstakingly illustrated in the Potter style - all pastels and anthropomorphic woodland creatures, which is fine if you like that sort of thing.
He was always complaining about his various aches and pains.
Yet he realized that were Henry to be entrusted with the regency he would change in the most radical fashion the course of the ship of state; would introduce measures dear to the late Emperor Frederick, but to which he, the kaiser, was unalterably opposed, and would, in short, undo everything that he himself had done; so that when eventually the crown prince came of age there would be no longer any possibility of his continuing his father's policy, a policy which the emperor has been at great pains to inculcate into his boy. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
As you get older, you have all sorts of aches and pains.
Support and reassurance that growing pains will pass as children grow up can help them relax.
In 1617, Doña Ana de Angulo was brought before the tribunal for giving a woman in labor peyote and placing scissors under her pillow to avert afterpains. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Frequently, there is little to say about a jewel case and a simple insert, but the new Shinkoyo label has taken pains to avoid this, instead attempting to make the CD an art object.
Heartburn sounds such an innocuous affliction until you actually experience it but stabbing sharp pains in your chest when ever you bend down or lie down is not very fun.
The theme was written in 1963, but developed almost beyond recognition over weeks of painstaking work with tapes and tone generators.
You'd think a high school would take pains not to title their cookbook so that it sounded like, well, a high school project.
Being informed about health matters and adopting a common-sense approach to minor aches and pains is the first step. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
What eminent gifts are poured out in the days wherein we live! what light is bestowed! what pains in preaching! how is the dispensation of the word multiplied! The Sermons of John Owen
Aches and pains and sore muscles are almost synonymous with sporting and recreational activities, and just day-to-day living.
He shall find nothing remaining but those sorrows which grow up after our fast-springing youth, overtake it when it is at a stand, and overtop it utterly when it begins to wither; insomuch as, looking back from the very instant time, and from our now being, the poor, diseased, and captive creature hath as little sense of all his former miseries and pains as he that is most blest, in common opinion, hath of his forepast pleasures and delights. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
Chris described in painstaking detail what had happened.
The patient was seized with unbearable pains
What seems a random pattern of painstakingly rendered cuts in the paper is in fact a nine-times repeating pattern made from a rubber matrix print containing the Pollock-like marks.
Earlier cops had warned they could find more dead amid the painstaking operation to remove the stricken police chopper from the scene. The Sun
All I got for my pains was a grunt that fitted well with his simian features. DEAD BEAT
Having artfully solved a thorny problem a week ago, the government has now embraced a deal whose terms reek of the bailout it was at such pains to avoid. The Real Cost
I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline.
Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body.
The 44-year-old was at pains to defend his record at Coventry, claiming that with City he proved five years ago he can keep teams in the Premiership.
Through painstaking efforts, he put together a bicycle made of bamboo, abundantly available in his state.
There seldom passed much talk between them: Linton learnt his lessons and spent his evenings in a small apartment they called the parlour: or else lay in bed all day: for he was constantly getting coughs, and colds, and aches, and pains of some sort. Wuthering Heights
Together they begin the prolonged and painstaking peace process. Times, Sunday Times
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
Maltheism, of course, has a long and rich history through dystheism, misotheism, theodicy, dualism, and fideism, due largely to the fact that religious authors through the ages have taken great pains to unapologetically anthropomorphize their gods in all the worst ways possible. An Illustrated Guide : The Lovecraft News Network
We know how much misery pain is able to bring upon the body in this life; (in which our pains and pleasures, as well as other things, are but imperfect;) there being never a limb or part, never a vein or artery of the body, but it is the scene and receptacle of pain, whensoever it shall please God to unfence it, and let in some sharp disease or distemper upon it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
For their pains, they are slandered and vilified by the likes of Afshah.
Cross-fertilising a pure white hyacinth with a blue seedling, followed by painstaking years of bulb harvesting and reselecting for the darkest colour, have resulted in the black bloom.
She's at pains to rebut suggestions that she is therefore somehow a confection. Times, Sunday Times
He was right: the drums were beat perfect, the ululations from women's groups were in tune and the range of outfits had clearly been painstakingly constructed over some time.
This achievement is the fruit of a decade of collective measured thought and painstaking preparation before construction began in 2001.
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We had a kind of unconfessed idea that she did not take half pains enough to make us like her. My Young Days
I fetched the file, and all I got for my pains was a dirty look from Simon.
Publicly supportive of the new landscape, and palpably conscious of his ambassadorial role, he was at pains to point out difficulties exclusive to the jumps. Times, Sunday Times
He painstakingly annotates and takes notes from the books and gets information downloaded from the Internet.
But Mr Brownrigg, who, I must say, had taken more pains than might have been expected of him to make himself acquainted with the legalities of his office, did not fail to call a vestry, to which, as usual, no one had responded; whereupon he imposed a rate according to his own unaided judgment. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
These “afterpains” generally stop being painful by the third day after giving birth. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
Lors un lourdaiU qui servoit a la table, nous voyant en si grand debat, se va mocquer de nous, de ce qu* estions empeschez en si pen de chose, SC Jious va dire, que les Espagnols faisoient leurs pains plus grands qu 'ailleurs, parce qu' ils y mettoient plus de paste, * Illustrations of Sterne, with other essays and verses
He lives by his wits, playing tricks on a niggardly old victualler and other gullible occupants of the camp, and gets whipped for his pains.
This long, painstaking process must not be derailed. Times, Sunday Times
There seldom passed much talk between them; Linton learnt his lessons and spent his evenings in a small apartment they called the parlour; or else lay in bed all day; for he was constantly getting coughs, and colds, and aches, and pains of some sort. Wuthering Heights
And I do get a decent bottle of wine and I and a guest diner free for my pains.
He also suffers from stomach pains and has been drained of energy.
It lays out in painstaking detail how to replace the garbage bags, crush the plastic bottles, and separate the trash between burnable and nonburnable items while picking out paper, plastic bottles, glass bottles and cans for possible recycling. Evacuees Set Rules to Create Sense of Normalcy
At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space. A Monumental Moment
Painstaking effort, three words, a name, a hard, a called function, must keep up your spirits, work hard.
The disease typically manifests itself in a high fever and chest pains.
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
Despite the poverty of his means he had been at pains to elevate the hut from a hovel. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
She complains of pains in her head. Times, Sunday Times
Stutely must needs snatch a kiss from the stout hostess, and got a canakin of ale emptied over his head for his pains. The Adventures of Robin Hood
In short, my dear, like a restiff horse, (as I have heard described by sportsmen,) he pains one’s hands, and half disjoints one’s arms, to rein him in. Clarissa Harlowe
The stomach pains persisted, becoming more debilitating as his fame grew. ‘They're good for my anger,’ he once quipped, though it seems more likely that, like his bilious songs, they were simply another symptom of that same anger.
If your computer dies, your painstakingly assembled music collection dies with it. Times, Sunday Times
I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
This is partly because people, and their pains, do not respond equally to a particular drug.
But now women are being urged to heed aches, pains and persistent bloating that could be warning signs of the onset of ovarian cancer. Times, Sunday Times
I have to say, as pains in the keister go, this one is right up there. James Napoli: Andy Rooney Returns to CBS for Segment on What a Pain in the Ass it Is to Be Dead
Similarly, in 1795 J M Good, a physician who carried out a painstaking examination of diseases of prisons and poorhouses, wrote, ‘No medicine is much more advantageous than the daily changing of linen.’
For years he had been taking them once a week, as a way of unwinding and relieving the aches and pains from the hard manual labor required by his landscaping business.
You feel some pain in your uterus - breastfeeding, in particular, can stimulate ‘afterpains ' as your uterus contracts.
So the pachydermic concept with the thunderous footfall is this: can a painter who veers back and forth between emphatically paint-as-paint abstractions (Richter squeegees the stuff across canvases on the studio floor) and a form of painstaking realism be taken seriously as a whole? Looking Back At Richter
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
He was at pains to stress that his whole-hearted commitment to drawing in larger crowds with gate reductions and the acquisition of quality players seems to be in vain.
I get shooting pains up my spine whenever I try to move.
It presents the results of research on surviving prints, based on a painstaking physical examination of the paper used, watermarks and typefaces.
There's some sympathy for this new country's growing pains, but that sympathy is fast wearing out.
Forensic officers will continue to carry out a painstaking search of the first chamber over the weekend. The Sun
Not every car there had been painstakingly prepared to concours condition. Times, Sunday Times
The oil is topically applied to relieve spasmodic pains.
I went to great pains to select the best staff available.
A doctor painstakingly threads a thin tube deep into his sedated patient's heart.
The furious hotel worker says she left without a diagnosis for stomach pains and vomiting blood. The Sun
Have you experienced aches, pains, or palpitations for no obvious reason? Times, Sunday Times
French Revolution was noteworthy in college annals, not merely for its painstaking and voluminous accuracy, but for the fact that it was the dryest, deadest, most formal, and most orthodox screed ever written on the subject. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
The more pains he takes with these processes, naturally the keener will be his enjoyment of them. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
Each unit has little wrinkles at its lip from the paper painstakingly pasted over the cardboard structure.
It reserves natural head of femur, thus eliminating pains of femur in orthopeics. It reserves natural head of femur, thus eliminating pains patients caused by total hip replacement.
It is at pains to point out that much of the ceremony took place during the Christmas vigil and on the feast of the Nativity.
For example, after a heart attack or cardiac surgery, minor muscular chest aches and pains may be misinterpreted as evidence of angina, leading to unnecessary worry and disability.
When I went to yank the pillow, I had never used that muscle and sharp pains started shooting everywhere.
Here in the Eastern Conference final, where half-court drudgery is dictated by a Detroit Pistons outfit that wants no part of sleek showmanship, NBA basketball becomes less an art than a painstaking process both to play and watch. USATODAY.com - Nets sweep road set from Pistons
As the hot water sluiced into the sunken tub, easing her aches and pains, she began to think about the gruelling casting.
People suffer the pains of isolation, loneliness, insignificance and disability while enjoying modern freedom.
He is an engineer who came to study the spine because of his own back pains.
The hair she painstakingly had dyed blonde was up in a chignon.
A wad of linen is painstakingly molded into the precise shape of a feline nose.
The heavy, tensive, aching pains are the main indication for its use.
Shortness of breath or chest pains indicating inflammation of the lungs (pleuritis) or the heart (pericarditis) OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
The question is: in what does the painfulness, the hurting quality, of pains consist? Pain
Having dominated the TV ratings and achieved commercial success, he is now looking to projects that have some artistic weight - although it pains him slightly to say this.
Ear, nose and throat clinics have been taking patients every day complaining of hoarse voices and throat pains.
The disease typically manifests itself in a high fever and chest pains.
But the methodology is painstakingly punctilious due to the heavy editing involved.
The doctors just didn't want to know about the back pains, the sharp jab down the inside of the leg. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the main building was covered by one of the collapsed walls, making a comprehensive search of the site a painstakingly slow process.
NSAIDs may reduce pain and inflammation following injury by inhibiting COX isozyme-induced prostaglandin synthesis; however, as they circulate within the body indiscriminately, rather than localizing to the source of an athlete's specific aches and pains, they may produce undesirable side effects. Health News from Medical News Today
Music is magically powerful, soulfully rich, spiritually resourceful, emotionally versatile, psychologically and physically therapeutic. Music makes people feel, think, act and change. Music makes people feel good, relaxes and improves the soul, heart and mind, boosts the immune system, and reduces emotional and physical pains. Dr T.P.Chia
It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
he was apt to exaggerate any aches and pains
Oh! the pains I have been at to dispel those gloomy ideas and give him cheerfuller views! Emma
It is used to treat delayed menses and congested blood (especially in the lower pelvic cavity) and abdominal pains.
Are you bothered by nagging aches and pains? The Sun
As he grows he will become less supple and the pains will ease off. Times, Sunday Times
Junior Exhibition was written with infinite pains and taken to the Greek professor in Beloit College that there might be no mistakes, even after the Rockford College teacher and the most scholarly clergyman in town had both passed upon it. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
There are the pains in the stomach, the colic, and then on the gums is that characteristic line of plumbic sulphide, the distinctive mark produced by lead. The War Terror
To his surprise, his arthritic pains improved dramatically, but worsened if he had to spend time again inside or behind glass. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It
Staring today, I am going to do myself a favour.To forget about the burdens. To forget about the pains.To forget about the hurts.
Homeless children sniff glue to dull their hunger pains.

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