The needles still stabbed into her brain, and she knew she was only a singer, when she needed to be so much more.

Her head ached, and sharp needles stabbed through her eyes.

Sharp needles of pain had stabbed regularly at him since he had woken.

She was embroidering; the needle stabbed through the linen fabric, flashing in the lamplight.

The needles stabbed into Bink's arms and face--but he did not let go.

There he lay studying the riverbank and scratching where the needles had stabbed him.

The needle stabbed into Ellie's arm with a lancing pain that seemed to strike at the roots of her soul.

A hot needle stabbed at his spine, digging at each vertebra.

Pluto's head thunked on the ground, and Charlie staggered sideways as a needle of pain stabbed him through the heart.

The hypodermic needle, which he had filled previous to his impersonation of Morgan, stabbed into the woman's arm.