She felt rested, her headache having subsided to a distant and far more tolerable ache.
She walked down the deck, limping a little as the newly healed leg started to hurt again with a distant, nagging ache.
Always the fracture kept returning, a dull disjointed distant ache.
She felt it echoing in her skull like a distant ache, thought: Where can I hide?
The pit dug in spacetime by the hole's mass felt like a distant, fading ache.
The never-healing wounds in his side were a dull and distant ache.
But although he now felt deeply relaxed, and the pain had turned into a distant ache, he was no longer sleepy.
Alertness crept back over him as the pain at last receded into a distant, sickly ache.
His wounds were a distant ache he could barely feel as he pulled off his clothing.
He felt an ache, dull and distant, in his thigh.