He sat up in his bed and became conscious of a hot and aching head.
The other masters lived at a distance, and Ketch's old legs were aching. What was he to do?
"It would be far worse, Lady Augusta, if we believed him guilty," she replied from her aching heart.
When the last wagon rolled away, McLean sat on the stump and Freckles told the story he was aching to tell.
It was warm and soft and sweet-smelling; it soothed away the hurt of his aching muscles and the sting of his scratches.
There was no respite nor rest from the hard surface of the rock, and aching muscles could find no change from the cramped and perilous position.
Within was a labyrinth of passages in the walls, and "long-sounding corridors," and sudden galleries, whence I looked down into the great church aching with silence.
"Caught in a tree, by Jupiter!" and all visions of heaven vanished in a breath, as he sat up and stared about him, wide awake now, and conscious of many aching bones.
Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
She even had to admit to herself a certain sensation of relief after she had bathed her aching head and throat, and substituted a thin, silk wrap for the torn, stained riding-suit.