He could see there was an old pain at work here.

But what the flame had told me revived the old pain.

"She knew it would bring back all the old pain."

He could almost feel the other's present sorrow and its old, remembered pain.

"Funny," he said, an old new pain growing in his heart.

It was an old pain and there were whole days when he did not think of her.

He climbed down the ladder like a man with old pains.

The old pain in my ribs and stomach is with me now as I write these lines.

For the past three years, he had allowed grief and old pain to build a wall between them.

Her wide lips pressed together, holding back an old pain.