stinging nettle

Many were heard coughing and seen rubbing watery, stinging red eyes.

There was a cold, stinging contempt in Varney's tones by no means lost on the listener.

Here the love of the cow or the country is a vague thing intended to satisfy one's vanity, or soothe a stinging conscience.

“Abstinence has its drawbacks,” he said, shivering in the bitter wind which whirled the stinging smoke about them.

The nurse hurried forward, and Corydon felt a stinging sensation in her side, and then a delightful numbness crept over her.

Upward through the stinging blast of the tempest they went, toward the top of a stricken world.