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Example sentences for "felt rather"

  • The Austrian at present plays in Pannonia the Sclavonian against us and us against the Sclavonian; but the downfall of the Austrian is at hand; they, like us, are not a numerous people.

  • I; 'a pretty thing indeed to boast of; I had no idea of making you cry.

  • I was rather hard at that time; I am not very soft now; and I felt rather ashamed of my father's want of what I called spirit.

  • By dessert she was in good spirits, while I felt rather excited.

  • It felt rather heavy, and on opening it she found it to contain fifty pieces-of-eight, which she took for medals.

  • I felt rather curious to see the company, and with the idea of shewing Zanovitch that I was not likely to become a charge on his purse, I dressed myself magnificently once more.

  • Jimmy heard him roar as if he were only a yard or two away, and he felt rather alarmed, until they had left his cage farther behind.

  • He would have liked to lie in the warm bed a little longer, and when at last he jumped out he felt rather cold.

  • I felt rather unwell, having had a lusty old shake with the ague.

  • Felt rather weak; troubled with diarrhea which had rendered me rather weak.

  • Felt rather lonesome, mused away most of the day in a waking dream, thinking of home and by-gone days.

  • Well, with everyone gone and Roger hunting me some boots, I felt rather better.

  • I felt rather queer, alone there on the island with him; and the only thing that occurred to me was to keep him down.

  • He was still holding my hands and I felt rather silly.

  • Suddenly, however, on raising my head, I saw that she was crying, and I felt rather surprised.

  • He felt rather out of countenance, and stammered: "I?

  • They had fixed bayonets and loaded rifles, and I felt rather nervous as to what was going to happen.

  • He felt rather frightened, and suddenly became possessed of a bitter resentment against the enemy who were striving to kill him and his shipmates.

  • They were frightened of him, and, on the rare occasions when they did catch sight of his four gold stripes on deck, felt rather inclined to run away and hide their faces.

  • I felt rather snuffy, and I knew Tommy did too.

  • And when my gear had been packed and driven down to the station, I felt rather a brute because everyone cried, and even my father was a little husky when I wished him good-bye.

  • I wonder if the sight of all this splendour will destroy my mental equilibrium--I assure you I felt rather like a queen myself yesterday, seated up alone in the great gala carriage, with everybody bowing and gaping.

  • I felt rather shy, sitting up there alone, as of course there is a great deal of glass, so that I was much "en evidence.

  • All the Russians embraced each other, some with tears running down their cheeks, everybody shook hands with everybody, and for a moment the emotion was contagious--I felt rather a choke in my throat.

  • Though I felt rather agitated as I walked up the hall and saw these gowned people waiting for me, the idea flitted across my mind that they looked most extremely like a row of rooks sitting on a long stick.

  • I promised, of course, but I felt rather bothered.

  • I felt rather disturbed in my mind, for among these objects of art were two or three very rare and beautiful things, which I knew must have cost an exorbitant price.

  • I felt rather sick, for I was holding in my hand a skate's liver and the heart and gizzard of a fowl.

  • He spoke of the rapids with such intense passion that I felt rather uneasy, and began to wonder whether the man was not mad.

  • I felt rather lonely, even though grandmamma was in the same house.

  • I looked at her as she said that, for I felt rather surprised.

  • I felt rather 'left behind' by her, for I was only eleven, and as soon as the first great anxiety about Mr. Nestor was over I did not think very much more about it.

  • I felt rather proud of my new possession, but before I got through the field that afternoon I became suspicious.

  • I felt rather bewildered by so much excitement and metropolitanism where hardly two years before I had hauled one of the first loads of lumber on the ground to start the town.

  • He felt rather frightened, but he stuck tightly to his great steed, steadying himself by taking fast hold of the horse's great collar with one hand, all the while dragging with the other at the rein.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could discover; division was; felt ashamed; felt certain; felt happy; felt himself; felt like; felt more; felt quite; felt rather; felt somewhat; felt sure; felt that; felt the; felt when; literary career; mile walk; neutral position; otherwise known; our said lord the; pretty fair; regulated mind; rich husband; several waters; taking their; the way