The swelling was down and only a little soreness remained.

So with just a little soreness in his heart Penn sailed away never to return.

He felt no bodily discomfort except a little soreness at the back of his scalp.

After the explosion, all that's left are dead cells, carbon residue, and maybe a little soreness.

She felt, with no little soreness, that the rector was not with her in her depreciation of Wingfold.

In her heart there was just that little soreness natural to a woman over fifty, whose husband has a niece.

When I got home I experienced very little soreness from the operation and I felt that I could enjoy life fully.

In the meantime Allen was appointed commandment of Ticonderoga, and Arnold, with a little soreness at his heart returned to Cambridge.

But his opinion, and, perhaps, a little soreness of feeling, may be seen in this extract from a letter to Sir William Smith:-

I feel about as well as usual; it is true I have a little soreness a bout the chest, but it does not signify anything.

Eyes watering from the chilled air, a little soreness in my knees from bouncing down the steps, a tickling around the hairs of my ankles.

Sometimes in these affairs young people misunderstand each other, and little sorenesses arise, which a few outspoken words can smooth away.

"There is only a little soreness in my throat."