Example Sentences

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I fail to see how I am paining you, I am giving you a free choice.

From A Young Mutineer by Meade, L. T.

“Madame, I am paining you,” I said; “but I am going to cause you even greater unhappiness.”

From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

I know I am paining you, but I have a duty to do which I shall do, as I have always done through my life.

From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest