Use "painfulness" in a sentence

1. John Smith anyway—followed to the point of painfulness

2. But even the novelty and painfulness of his going to a Papistical land could not displace for long Mr and Mrs Clare's natural interest in their son's marriage

3. Under the hill, and just ahead of them, was the half-dead townlet of their pilgrimage, Kingsbere, where lay those ancestors of whom her father had spoken and sung to painfulness: Kingsbere, the spot of all spots in the world which could be considered the d'Urbervilles' home, since they had resided there for full five hundred years

4. “The ‘Mere Accident’ is treated with a power and pathos which only serve to enhance the painfulness of the affair