The old wounds were a hard knot of pain just above that.

I felt weak, and my stomach was a hard knot.

I could do nothing but stare as my stomach drew up into a hard little knot.

That made sense, and a hard knot inside her eased a hair.

He pulled it down over her eyes and tied a small, hard knot in the dark cloth.

They wrote down my brain on a hard knot of space, You cannot turn me.

They wrote down my brain on a hard knot of space.

He felt an old excitement, a cold hard knot of fear in his guts.

I was suddenly cold, my stomach like a hard frozen knot.

The other man had a hard knot of anger in his stomach.