Showing frustration

Usage examples of pained.

A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.

Oh, forgive me, for I see the pained expression on your face, so please forgive this over enthusiastic adolescent for his clumsy way of saying what he feels.

But ever as he grew older he thought more of her, and it pained him very much to know that even now, when he was living in comfort, with good food and rich apparel, she, to whom he owed so much, was perhaps labouring as a bondswoman under some cruel master.

But, on the other hand, I was much pained to see that in your letter you did not call me Friend, but Madame .

I wondered if it pained my uncle that his younger brother had fathered three sons to his one.

When I had crawled back to my fauteuil and placed my tipped fauteuil aright and I was again seated I realized the pain of inside no longer pained me.

One thing was certain, I was sorry for what I had done, and that was always a thought which pained me.

However, there it was and it had to be extracted, for it pained me extremely.

As much as it pained him, Keth finally admitted the redhead was right.

That writhing weapon-man had managed to strike the bear in the nose with no more than his knuckly fist, yet with an angry and pained roar the beast hurled him aside.

Boghos Panoshian, was of the opinion that she should be placed in a private psychiatric facility and had recommended a few, and such thoughts pained Kogh even more, though as her fits became more frequent and more violent, he was beginning to seriously consider the well-meant suggestions.

He moved back into tall trees, followed by the staff, saw more officers waiting for him, looks of pained relief.

Coney Mound, or at the very least that Owd Jack, aged and pained beyond belief and yet still living, had come to reclaim me.

I was sure at that moment that the devil himself had decided to walk Coney Mound, or at the very least that Owd Jack, aged and pained beyond belief and yet still living, had come to reclaim me.

It pained Vok that it was so, now that his own years had taught him both temperance and wisdom, but he had neither the energy nor the inclination to change the order of things at such a late point in his own journey.