But his training won out, and he stood still as a needle-sharp pain jabbed his finger.

She clung to the sides of the bed as pain jabbed through her head, from somewhere directly in the middle of her skull.

A sharp pain jabbed through them into my head, but I struggled against the weight, and found it was due to two or three people being on top of me; so I managed to shove a couple of them off, and sit up.

He tried to move his head, and sharp pains jabbed through his skull.

A stabbing pain jabbed above his wrist.

Another sharp pain as though somebody had jabbed a screwdriver in Miles Manning's torso.

For a moment she thought of asking why they didn't even know her name, and then the pain jabbed her throat and she gasped, unable to speak, to whisper Jimmy's name, to ask God's forgiveness for her sins.

Ed Cavanaugh woke up quickly: a sharp pain was jabbing through his head, as if someone had shoved a knitting needle into his ear then jerked it viciously up and down.