Had he suffered some damage in the attack after all, beyond the cut over his eye and the painful stiffness in his limbs?

She crawled forward on her belly, conscious of every noise she made, the dryness of her mouth, and the increasingly painful stiffness of her fingers.

Wincing, she tried to straighten her legs against the painful stiffness of her muscles, whistling softly at a cramp in one calf.

It was leather, once dampened, now dried into painful stiffness.

Derec was forcing himself to sit up at the terminal despite the painful stiffness in his back.

He fastened his own shirt on the way to the door, waving Vivien off despite the painful stiffness in his fingers.

I stretched the painful stiffness out of my arm as I sat up, then went to work on the matching stiffness in my neck.

Slowly, moving with painful stiffness from the bandages and struggling for breath, Pitt rose to his feet and peered Into the expanding cloud for signs of the Albairos.

There was a painful stiffness to the right side of her face.

Now, in addition to the disfiguring skin condition, he suffered a painful stiffness in his joints, so bad it hurt just to get up in the morning.