pang vs pricking

pang

noun
  • A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. 

  • A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. 

verb
  • To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. 

  • simple past tense of ping 

pricking

noun
  • A sensation that pricks. 

  • The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. 

  • The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. 

  • A nicking. 

  • The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick. 

  • The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. 

How often have the words pang and pricking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )