pain vs pricking

pain

noun
  • An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. 

  • The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress 

  • An annoying person or thing. 

  • Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something. 

verb
  • To feel pain; to hurt. 

  • To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. 

  • To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. 

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 pain and pricking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )