Meanings (ES + gloss)
cimbrón • picada • pinchazo • piquete • puntada • punzada
A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
"Will it hurt much?"—"No, mine own: / I wish I could bear the pang for both." / "I wish I could bear the pang alone: / Courage, dear, I am not loth."
So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder…
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