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Meanings of pained voice in English

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Usage of pained voice in English
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In a pained voice, he asked, "What would you propose?"
Transfer of power
2
We have clerks, you know, for that sort of thing, suggested Faragaut in a pained voice.
The Ultimate Weapon
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Tina spoke in that pained voice she used when she could see I was troubled about something.
Dark Eden
4
I should be miserable if I won and you were angry, said little Susan in a low, pained voice.
Etheldreda the Ready: A School Story
5
At those words from Felix, Frances Freeland, gazing first at him and then at Kirsteen, said in a pained voice:
The Freelands
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M. Folgat was allowed to accompany the prisoner, and was getting ready to do so; but the latter said, with a pained voice,-
Within an Inch of His Life
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In fact, he did say it again -in that slow, whispering, almost pained voice, granny's glasses hanging on a string round his neck.
The Guardian
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Bluebell's fair brow contracted, and her dark lashes swept her cheek, as she said, in a low, pained voice,-"Nofear of that."
Bluebell / A Novel
9
"You are talking very wildly, Robert," she said, in a pained voice.
Michael
10
"Please, do not name her again," the child said in a pained voice.
Winter door
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"We have to fight fire with fire," he added, in a pained voice.
Coniston — Volume 04
12
"I've never heard anything against him," said my mother in a pained voice.
A Far Country — Volume 1
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'I can imagine,' said Mimi in a pained voice, 'and it will soon get much colder.'
Melnitz
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"I blame myself bitterly for this, Vera," he said in a low, pained voice.
Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
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"Madame," he replied in a pained voice, "you surprise me.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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"Ah," she said, in a pained voice, "don't say that.
Rodman the Boatsteerer, and Other Stories / 1898
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