She felt a familiar longing well up inside her, like a physical ache.
Only in sleep would she find surcease from aches both physical and spiritual.
But she was lonely, and the need to have someone of her own was a physical ache.
It can help you avoid a number of physical aches and pains.
She wanted to hold this little girl so badly, it was a physical ache.
He felt a physical ache, his entire body aching.
It was a physical ache in the floor of his stomach.
He wanted, with a physical ache, to go home.
Beyond the physical ache, her heart also began to twinge.
Suddenly, she missed him with a purely physical ache of kinship.