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Example sentences for "could not help feeling"

  • He could not help feeling a little anxious as to his judgment upon it.

  • Hugh to himself; but he could not help feeling glad he was asleep.

  • She hastened, instead, to place a chair for him as she had done when first he entered the cottage, and when he had taken it sat down at his feet on her creepie.

  • They began about the old country, and the places and people they both knew, and both didn't know.

  • He knew now that she had always understood what he was only just waking to recognize.

  • I could not help feeling, in common with many other thoughtful officers, that we were on the eve of great events.

  • When Mr Sutton said this I could not help feeling that he wished to try me, so I considered some time before I replied.

  • I could not help feeling myself a mote in the dazzling sunshine of their happiness.

  • I could not help feeling sad to see how the sparkling vivacity of his youth had passed away, the diamond brightness which reminded one of rippling waters in their sunbeams.

  • Philip listened to her enumeration of the qualities which must be possessed by the perfect lover, and he could not help feeling a certain satisfaction that she lived in Berlin.

  • He had worked so hard on the portrait that he could not help feeling it must have merit.

  • Philip knew from his experience at the hospital that women of her class looked upon service as degrading: he could not help feeling a little impatient with her; but he blamed himself, for it was clear that she was tired and ill.

  • I could not help feeling that it was at a mere straw I was grasping; but nothing more tangible lay within my "reach.

  • Sara's manner to me had been so markedly cold and distant for some time past, so unlike what it had been at first, that I could not help feeling that, by ordering me away, some evidence of displeasure was to be detected.

  • As he flew over the octaves, and struck chords of splendid harmony, I could not help feeling an amount of credit in all his boastful declarations just from this one trait of real power about him.

  • Nevertheless, I could not help feeling amazed at the way Veronique played the part.

  • But all the same I could not help feeling that my position was a very precarious one.

  • She began her wretched tale, which struck me with consternation, for I could not help feeling that I was the first and final cause of this long list of woes.

  • But horrified as I was by the general idea of such a calling, I could not help feeling amused, and even rather admired Miss Kingsley's independence and enterprising spirit.

  • But I could not help feeling a little of my former jealousy return, as I noted how slack and unprofitable our business was compared with his.

  • I could not help feeling touched by the despair in his voice.

  • I should have preferred a more intellectual companion than Tommy Bigg, but there was so much honest simplicity and good-nature about him, that I could not help feeling a regard for him.

  • Thus he liberally and delicately made me a present which I could not help feeling might be of the greatest service to me.

  • I had read about people in whose eyes the light of pity never shone, and as I looked up at that man's, I could not help feeling that he belonged to that miserable class.

  • I could not help feeling a touch of pity for this poor young man with the melancholy face.

  • I could scarcely have avoided this pompous eulogium; but I could not help feeling a certain sinking of heart at the very thought of being forced, as it were, against my will, to make this difficult and dangerous ascent.

  • I could not help feeling a little disappointed.

  • I laughed with a dash of bitterness which I could not help feeling as I replied: "Then in this world the gold of true happiness is only for the dumb!

  • I could not help feeling at times that all was going on for the best; that the very restraint of the opening of our married life was formative of influence for good on us both.

  • I could not help feeling deeply--down into the very depths of my soul--how good it was for them all.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could not help feeling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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