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  • The thought gave him twinges of both satisfaction and remorse.†   (source)
  • Another twinge.†   (source)
  • Though the news was a balm to her soul, she also felt a twinge of sadness.†   (source)
  • Thomas put the papers in the trunk and closed it, hating the twinge of unease he felt.†   (source)
  • I'm sure even the adult viper, as it swallowed the mouse, must have felt somewhere in its undeveloped mind a twinge of regret, a feeling that something greater was just missed, an imaginative leap away from the lonely, crude reality of a reptile.†   (source)
  • I went to bed with the comforting knowledge that my family was doing well, and that warmth lulled me into a sound sleep that was only hitched by a twinge of nerves at being alone with Maxon again.†   (source)
  • I feel a twinge of guilt for teasing Uriah when he can't hear me, but I would have said the same thing if he were standing here.†   (source)
  • "I suppose so," Sticky said doubtfully, with a twinge of worry in his voice, "but what if there's someone outside?†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of pity for him.†   (source)
  • Eddie, the super of the apartment building, looked at me with a twinge of sympathy.†   (source)
  • I get a twinge.†   (source)
  • She looked at her rags and stained skin, and she couldn't suppress the twinge of shame.†   (source)
  • And every so often I see pictures of myself with both arms and I feel a twinge of sadness.†   (source)
  • But their mocking laughter had caused a twinge of…what?†   (source)
  • Spencer felt a tiny twinge of disappointment.†   (source)
  • Each twinge, each murmur of slight pain, ripples of sloughed-off matter, swellings and diminishings of tissue, the droolings of the flesh, these are signs, these are the things I need to know about.†   (source)
  • For the first time she felt a twinge of real fear.†   (source)
  • "Gogol Ganguli," the clerk says, motioning for Gogol to approach the dais, and as eager as he is to go through with it, he is aware, with a twinge of sadness, that this is the last time in his life he will hear that name uttered in an official context.†   (source)
  • Something twinges inside me.†   (source)
  • I feel a slight twinge of hope.†   (source)
  • He grimaced —a twinge that vanished the moment I saw it.†   (source)
  • She tells me I better not get the notion she'll be running up to this part of the world every time I have a little pain or a twinge.†   (source)
  • He starts backward, and I get a momentary, sick twinge of pleasure that I've surprised him.†   (source)
  • Even a twinge?†   (source)
  • Every now and then it gives me a twinge.†   (source)
  • A twinge of hurt joined the nerves.†   (source)
  • For just one tiny instant, I even felt a twinge of sympathy for them.†   (source)
  • A twinge of unease shot through Eragon, matching the intensity of his throbbing head.†   (source)
  • "The first time my father heard Methuselah say, "Damn," his body moved strangely, as if he'd received the spirit or a twinge of bad heartburn.†   (source)
  • I felt a fierce twinge of sadness, like Baz had just said good-bye to me for good, and was bound someplace I could never follow.†   (source)
  • Ruth felt a twinge in her chest.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • He felt a twinge of interest.†   (source)
  • She looked wonderfully peaceful, sleeping a restful sleep, and for a brief moment Mae felt a twinge of envy.†   (source)
  • I had a momentary twinge of fear that we were going to fall.†   (source)
  • They'd been back at Triangle for a week now, and Bella was still rediscovering the twinges and aches that went along with hunching over a sewing machine all day.†   (source)
  • As Katherine hung up, she felt an unexpected twinge of trepidation.†   (source)
  • Years ago, in the Uprising, he had sustained a wound to that shoulder, and even as light a weight as Hugo's—or the turn of a season, a change in temperature or humidity, too sudden a movement of his arm—awakened old twinges and the memories of pains better forgotten.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of anxiety, but I knew rubbing elbows with the nobility was something of a necessary evil.†   (source)
  • He felt a twinge of guilt for being such a jerk to her the night before.†   (source)
  • All their doors remained simple doors, on/off switches in the flow between two adjacent places, binarily either open or closed, but each of their doors, regarded thus with a twinge of irrational possibility, became partially animate as well, an object with a subtle power to mock, to mock the desires of those who desired to go far away, whispering silently from its door frame that such dreams were the dreams of fools.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the clock, saw with a twinge of guilt his break had lasted more than an hour.†   (source)
  • He rises from his chair, and I am so sure he is going to ask me that I feel a twinge of disappointment when he turns instead to the wife of the Spanish ambassador.†   (source)
  • She fed Demon an apple, already feeling the first twinges of soreness in her legs but not caring in the slightest.†   (source)
  • So now I get this twinge in my back whenever we get a few days of rain.†   (source)
  • He was on the point of leaving when he felt a twinge of pity for Tsezar.†   (source)
  • His mouthed was pressed tight and lacked its usual twinge of humor.†   (source)
  • Dusk was falling outside when a twinge of hunger sent him to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of panic.†   (source)
  • In the dead of summer, when the potato-scented fumes from the diesel forklifts were choking the warehouses, Papi was helping another man shove a crate into position when he felt a twinge about midway up his spine.†   (source)
  • In reverse order, Neferet thanked each element and sent them away as each candle was blown out, and as she did so I felt a little twinge of sadness, like I was saying good-bye to friends.†   (source)
  • It was just for an instant, but I felt the small twinge in my stomach as sharply as I would have if he had taken a soft finger and run it down the length of my open palm.†   (source)
  • But now, I only felt a slight twinge as I took another sip of my beer and waited for him to answer.†   (source)
  • The matter was put down as a duel of honor, but both of them were left with a twinge in their conscience.†   (source)
  • His heart was beating fast, and he could feel a twinge of pain in his left chest.†   (source)
  • That's when I got the idea and felt the twinge of regret.†   (source)
  • I had only the slightest twinge of worry because of his drinking.†   (source)
  • Occasionally she felt a twinge of guilt for not returning to college, but for the most part she was content in the now, with nothing on the horizon but good times.†   (source)
  • Another twinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge.†   (source)
  • It's been so long since I've hugged her, a twinge of guilt rises up inside me.†   (source)
  • Did he experience a tiny twinge of pleasure at the power his signature must represent?†   (source)
  • Major Major felt a twinge of alarm.†   (source)
  • Ridley winced, and I could feel a twinge of pain shooting from her hand, down my arm.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of jealousy, then guilt for being jealous of a sick friend.†   (source)
  • Again, that twinge of jealousy overpowered me.†   (source)
  • Not that I'm jealous, or anything—but I do feel a little twinge seeing Tom smiling down at this Lucy character who, frankly, has very boring hair, even if her clothes are quite nice.†   (source)
  • As the good abbess watched the two waving figures on the ship's rail recede to white dots, she felt a twinge of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Nudge felt a twinge around her heart as she looked at the face that had formed so much of her childhood.†   (source)
  • Jake had known many blacks who'd gone to school at Burley, and while they were always grateful for an integrated system, there was usually a twinge of nostalgia for the old place and the old ways.†   (source)
  • Still, thinking it, and thinking of my luxurious room and expensive, beautiful clothes, gave me a twinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • I rolled out of range, feeling a twinge of nausea.†   (source)
  • However, when he arrived at his office barely fifty minutes ago and found his concealed private telephone ringing, he had experienced a twinge of apprehension at such an early morning call over that particular line.†   (source)
  • She felt a small twinge of fear.†   (source)
  • I wriggled uncomfortably under his straight look, and then stopped because it made my back twinge.†   (source)
  • On the open ground they were moving quickly again, one of her ankles twinging with pain whenever they jumped.†   (source)
  • She felt a twinge of guilt for leaving her parents over the holidays but she had a career to think about.†   (source)
  • "I hear that Miss Fairchild refuses to admit him," he adds, and I feel a twinge of remorse, which I push away.†   (source)
  • He felt a twinge of guilt over this and liked to work on its stately, weathered edifice whenever possible.†   (source)
  • And today, for the first time since Friday, I felt this little twinge of, I don't know, almost like joy—but not real bubbly or anything.†   (source)
  • For the first time, he feels a twinge of regret.†   (source)
  • They pressed him forward, down the stairs, and when he reached the platform he felt a twinge of vertigo as they steered him too close to the tracks.†   (source)
  • I feel a distant twinge of panic, but I make my mind go quiet before I send my body deeper.†   (source)
  • "Shari," I say, feeling a twinge of guilt, "I don't know that he said that.†   (source)
  • Understanding bloomed and with it a surprising and unexpected twinge of jealousy.†   (source)
  • Chamberlain's stomach twinged in anticipation.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of guilt as I said it.†   (source)
  • He saw Gordon with a surge of pride and a twinge of anguish.†   (source)
  • His face was such a long upper-lipped Irish prototype that it verged on a joke, and he exuded sadness—something intangibly rumpled, exhausted and resigned that caused me to reflect with a twinge of pain on these lonesome office drinking bouts, the twilight sessions with Yeats and Hopkins, the bleak subway commute to Ozone Park.†   (source)
  • Then he felt a twinge in his right leg and an ache across his hips, but there was no real pain.†   (source)
  • Subconscious twinges of jealousy had been tormenting her.†   (source)
  • I paid an awful price for two tickets to a first-run movie and felt not a twinge of pain at the cost.†   (source)
  • As I stood up I had a little twinge of fear.†   (source)
  • More waited until that first twinge that brings awareness of death, then decided that they weren't too old for a change.†   (source)
  • The first twinges of pain slipped down his legs like poisoned water.†   (source)
  • My stomach twinges at the thought of him.†   (source)
  • But then, just as I feel those twinges again, he disappears.†   (source)
  • It took a conscious effort not to wince at the various twinges and aches.†   (source)
  • No, she couldn't deny that the accommodations occasionally gave her a few twinges.†   (source)
  • They laugh, and my gut twinges.†   (source)
  • Once inside, she drew him a warm bath, hoping it would help, feeling the first twinges of panic at the new signs of sickness that signaled the disease was advancing more rapidly.†   (source)
  • I felt no pain if you didn't count the twinges under my ribs, which I considered promising and not painful; they were the sign of Shiva's half liver growing to fully occupy its new home.†   (source)
  • Maybe she had a few twinges when she saw couples together who seemed to complete each other rather than compete, but that was only natural.†   (source)
  • Yet even this automaton was made of flesh, as you or I; he was brought up a Christian, nearly became a Catholic priest; twinges of conscience, even of remorse, attack him from time to time like the onset of some bizarre disease, and it is this frailty, the human response that stirs within the implacable and obedient robot, that helps make his memoirs so fascinating, so terrifying and educative.†   (source)
  • I feel that twinge of hatred against 13 again.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of guilt, and stupidity, too.†   (source)
  • He felt just one tiny twinge of regret… This was the end of his ambition to become an Auror.†   (source)
  • She was beginning to feel just the slightest twinge of doubt.†   (source)
  • There was a time as a child I possibly could have called her Mom without feeling a twinge of regret.†   (source)
  • My stomach gave me a twinge and I felt nauseated.†   (source)
  • He stretched, wincing as his ribs twinged painfully.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, for some reason I felt a twinge in my stomach.†   (source)
  • And brought on a slight twinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • He came back to the country just because my scar twinged.†   (source)
  • I sat stubbornly in my seat, arms folded, feeling a secret twinge of smugness.†   (source)
  • Each time, though, it was only a twinge.†   (source)
  • Gratitude overwhelms me, and another feeling too, bringing with it a twinge of pain.†   (source)
  • His scar gave another, more painful, twinge.†   (source)
  • But just hoping that he might gave me the first twinge of enthusiasm I'd felt for the outing.†   (source)
  • I feel a twinge of guilt and shake my head.†   (source)
  • My neck twinged with the image of the hundreds of tiny spiders waiting to assault me.†   (source)
  • With a painful twinge, I recall those other mornings together.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of guilt. but what I was doing fight now didn't really count.†   (source)
  • For the first time, I felt a twinge of homesickness for the place.†   (source)
  • She wondered what had happened to so reduce their numbers and felt a momentary twinge of unease.†   (source)
  • I'd be sitting at Ray's, at two or three or four in the morning, and feel this weird twinge.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of annoyance because Chiron rarely gave anyone a ride, and never a mortal.†   (source)
  • For a moment, he stopped to listen to the wailing, feeling a twinge of sympathy.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't be surprising if you had felt a twinge every few minutes.†   (source)
  • Percy felt a twinge of sadness, like he'd been in that situation.†   (source)
  • The thought of it brought a twinge of regret.†   (source)
  • Through the twinge of guilt, she managed a real half smile in his direction before she turned away.†   (source)
  • She has twelve, and I feel a momentary twinge of jealousy.†   (source)
  • All of this gave Reyna a twinge of dark satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Clary raised her head and almost yelped as a twinge shot through her stiff neck.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge for keeping her inside all these months.†   (source)
  • Right," Simon said, though he couldn't help a twinge of disappointment.†   (source)
  • My head jerks up, and I feel an excited twinge in my stomach.†   (source)
  • Just as I turned to leave the room, though, I felt it: that old familiar twinge in my gut.†   (source)
  • Only when I saw Owen did I feel a twinge of something like loneliness.†   (source)
  • I felt a brief twinge of guilt as I realized how Charlie would feel about this, but I ignored it.†   (source)
  • Then a tiny twinge of disappointment too.†   (source)
  • Alec's night vision rune twinged as he narrowed his eyes, moving forward.†   (source)
  • I thought, realizing what that twinge in my gut must mean.†   (source)
  • Everything about Sebastian was mild, Isabelle thought with a twinge of annoyance.†   (source)
  • I had that twinge in my stomach, like I was doing something wrong.†   (source)
  • I felt a sudden twinge of guilt about the good vampire doctor, like before.†   (source)
  • But hearing this, I felt a weird twinge, something not settling right.†   (source)
  • He felt a twinge, but the moment passed.†   (source)
  • And what was this weird twinge I felt in my stomach?†   (source)
  • He felt relief, and also the tiniest twinge of disappointment.†   (source)
  • Hearing this, I felt a twinge of dread, knowing I should tell her I wanted to quit modeling.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge in my chest at those words, a desire to make him take them back.†   (source)
  • If she were in love… Bryan felt the twinge again and ignored it.†   (source)
  • Since he started sleeping on Hema's sofa, he'd not had a twinge of discomfort when he peed.†   (source)
  • Even now, the tidy, unemotional plans gave her a twinge of distaste.†   (source)
  • He felt a flare of desire and a simultaneous protective twinge.†   (source)
  • I knew that twinge; it had been handed to me by a bolo in a jungle.†   (source)
  • gives her a twinge of shame at her urgent and unbuttoned lust.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, however, his scar hardly ever stopped prickling, and he often felt lurches of annoyance or cheerfulness that were unrelated to what was happening to him at the time, which were always accompanied by a particularly painful twinge from his scar.†   (source)
  • I feel a twinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • I dunno, Harry, maybe curse scars always twinge a bit… I'll ask Dad…… " Mr. Weasley was a fully qualified wizard who worked in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office at the Ministry of Magic, but he didn't have any particular expertise in the matter of curses, as far as Harry knew.†   (source)
  • We introduced ourselves to C.C. She looked me over with a twinge of disapproval, as if I'd failed some kind of test.†   (source)
  • But the flutter of fear stayed with him, just under his rib cage, strange as an unexpected twinge of pain.†   (source)
  • With a twinge of regret that had nothing to do with food, Harry imagined the house-elf busying himself over the steak-and-kidney pie that Harry, Ron, and Hermione would never eat.†   (source)
  • I had one last twinge of doubt.†   (source)
  • He felt a strange twinge of annoyance as she walked away, her long red hair dancing behind her; he had become so used to her presence over the summer that he had almost forgotten that Ginny did not hang around with him, Ron, and Hermione while at school.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel the same twinge of painful embarrassment I sometimes felt when I saw my people in service positions in public places.†   (source)
  • As he stepped back into camp, he realized that he hadn't seen Octavia since early that morning, and felt a twinge of concern.†   (source)
  • But somewhere in the back of his mind there must have been a twinge, a nag, an afterimage, for when he lifted his face again he looked straight at Edgar and then he shuddered and stepped back from the sink.†   (source)
  • But the pressure from the football coach", coupled with a little twinge inside his own heart, led Simpson to reject the applicant gently.†   (source)
  • I am the bane of her existence," Clary said, mimicking her mother's precise phrasing with only a slight twinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • For a moment, he felt a twinge of regret that Octavia still wasn't well enough to join in—she'd had so little fun in her life.†   (source)
  • I felt my stomach twinge.†   (source)
  • He explained that with four grains of denner resin, a man could have his foot amputated without a twinge of pain.†   (source)
  • Eragon's arms twinged with sympathetic pain, and he had to restrain himself from rushing to her defense.†   (source)
  • Besides the difficulty of traveling with Tinder, and the hydrogen peroxide and other supplies that Henry would be bringing back that evening, Edgar had made a deal with Henry and he already felt more than a twinge of guilt over having burglarized the man.†   (source)
  • Even the sight of her chatting animatedly to Roger Davies as they prepared to mount their brooms caused him only a slight twinge of jealousy.†   (source)
  • I feel a twinge of regret.†   (source)
  • I felt a twinge of unease at the thought of this being the odd night where the only talented musicians at the Eolian were men, or women who didn't know Aloine's part.†   (source)
  • I laughed with him, hiding a secret twinge of regret — why did he have to look like a runway model when I couldn't?†   (source)
  • Whenever Glass heard the tale. she felt a twinge of sadness for the people who might've been saved instead, but she couldn't deny that the chandelier was breathtaking.†   (source)
  • I allowed you to leave my presence, bloodstained, exhausted but exhilarated, and if I felt a twinge of unease that I ought, perhaps, to have told you then, it was swiftly silenced.†   (source)
  • Clarke's heart twinged as she imagined her father's lifeless body in a release capsule, his fingers stained red from the berries he'd eaten alone.†   (source)
  • Harry felt a small twinge of guilt at the thought of the pile of homework awaiting him upstairs, but the sky was a clear, exhilarating blue, and he had not been on his Firebolt for a week… 'I mean, we can do it tonight,' said Ron, as he and Harry walked down the sloping lawns towards the Quidditch pitch, their broomsticks over their shoulders, and with Hermione's dire warnings that they would fail all their OWLs still ringing in their ears.†   (source)
  • He felt a sudden twinge in his gut—in retrospect, it was the first hint that some piece of him might soon go missing.†   (source)
  • She felt a twinge of remorse about spouting off the way she had, especially since he did seem like a friendly guy.†   (source)
  • They nod, watching her closely, and she sees with a twinge of pain that they are quickly picking up the national language of a police state: every word, every gesture, a possible mine field, watch what you say, look where you go.†   (source)
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