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Example sentences for "felt himself"

  • He had lost all his pride and strength and dominating power of character and he felt himself unworthy to touch her.

  • He felt himself laughable in his own eyes, and was conscious that a smile was on his face, which Montevarchi would not understand.

  • It was nearly two years before he felt himself able to begin his first imitation, but the time and study he had expended were not lost, and the result surpassed his expectations.

  • In sharp and scornful language he denounces the iniquitous trader in indulgences, and gives the Pope credit for the same abhorrence for the traffic that he felt himself.

  • He felt himself reached, soiled, by this mud flung in handfuls over the ideal which in his own mind he had formed of that splendid adolescence, matured by the sun of Art to so penetrating a charm.

  • That day much more would have been required to upset the equilibrium of his happiness; on the contrary, he felt himself relieved by the so-quickly achieved fulfilment of his purpose.

  • St. Aubert acknowledged how much he felt himself obliged by this kindness, but refused to accept it, till the young stranger would take no denial.

  • St. Aubert answered, with a melancholy smile, that he felt himself much as usual; but Emily's fears made her now fancy that her father looked worse than he really did.

  • Soames raised his head drearily; he felt himself in the toils; he felt himself a mined man.

  • He felt himself to be a puppet of Fate, and he drifted with the tide because he lacked the strength to swim against it.

  • Marcian, though he had that in his mind which little accorded with religious worship, felt himself drawn to the little church, and knelt among the toil-worn folk.

  • When Basil looked at her, and thought of the anguish through which her life had passed in that gloomy evening of the reign of Theodoric, he felt himself for a moment at one with those who rejected and scorned the Gothic dominion.

  • Looking upon that face, which time touched only to enhance its calm, only to make yet purer its sweet humanity, he felt himself an idle and wanton child, and his entrance hither a profanation.

  • Probably about the time when he was walking home from work, she--He felt himself suffocating--the bare whitewashed walls grew dim and wavering.

  • The morning after his sudden show of spirit to David he felt himself, to his own miserable surprise, no more courageous than he had been before it.

  • With regard to her he felt himself caught in a tangled mesh of obligation.

  • But here, with this little glancing creature, he felt himself plunged in a perfect quagmire of ignorance and stupidity.

  • All at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he fled.

  • Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself restrained.

  • He felt himself emptied, useless, put out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved.

  • The longer he thought, the more he felt himself eased in his mind by this purpose; and he decided that as soon as he could find leisure he would go to the Cahuilla village and see what could be done.

  • Each hour that he delayed the revelation he felt himself almost as guilty as he had held his mother to be.

  • And the old man stamped his foot with a not wholly unreasonable irritation, at the false position in which he felt himself put.

  • For the first time in his life he felt himself in the dark as to his mother's probable action.

  • Each time that he went to Felipe's room to sing or to play, he felt himself oppressed by the air.

  • In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and was ready to endure a great deal of predominance, which, after all, a man could always put down when he liked.

  • His aversion was all the stronger because he felt himself unable to interfere.

  • Lydgate was not blind to the dangers of such friction, but he had plenty of confidence in his resolution to avoid it as far as possible: being seven-and-twenty, he felt himself experienced.

  • The result was that the uncle felt himself called on to interfere; he did not conceive that he should do his duty in witholding direction from his niece in a momentous crisis of this kind.

  • He had a native gift for administration, being tolerant both of opinions and conduct, because he felt himself able to overrule them, and was free from the irritations of conscious feebleness.

  • Mr. Prendergast could hardly doubt that he was the man, although he felt himself bound to remark that nothing should be said to Lady Fitzgerald till inquiry had been made.

  • At this moment, as I was saying, he felt himself to be completely humbled.

  • But now in that dingy big square he felt himself to be absolutely a stranger; and when he did venture out he watched the corners, in order that he might find his way back without asking questions.

  • He felt himself as something immense that was shut into a small space and would blow up the world if it were let loose.

  • He felt himself to be greater than she in this; she could not reach up to the level of his head!

  • When he looked out over the rising, he felt himself to be facing a world-thought with extraordinarily long sight.

  • Here, with his feet on the soil, he felt himself invincible.

  • At the moment of the conclusion of the Treaty of Union, Pitt had entered upon engagements with the Irish Catholics which he felt himself bound to fulfil.

  • He felt himself sustained by the breath of public opinion, and by the firm confidence of the mass of the nation.

  • Bonaparte perceived this, not without secret heartburning; but for a time he felt himself compelled to dissemble.

  • Moreau was spirited as well as modest; he felt himself injured; he dwelt in the country, living in grand style, sought after by the discontented, and speaking of Bonaparte without much reserve.

  • Alone amongst the public functionaries of every rank or origin, young Chateaubriand, minister of France to the republic of Valais, felt himself constrained to give in his resignation.

  • Necker thought the moment had come for giving public opinion the summons of which he recognized the necessity he felt himself shaken at court, weakened in the regard of M.

  • Naturally and stubbornly pacific as he was, he felt himself bound by the confirmation of the Pragmatic-Sanction, lately renewed, at the time of the treaty of Vienna.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    armed infantry; doubtful whether; empty chair; felt about; felt ashamed; felt assured; felt confident; felt happy; felt like; felt much; felt myself; felt obliged; felt rather; felt somewhat; felt that; felt the; felt very; felt when; gallant mast; large court; offensive operations; twelfth part; whole army; whose duty; will continue; yards across