Barbara felt herself so much older than he was that she only stopped him when he grew too persistent, neither laughing at him nor despising him.
He had already studied it carefully, but he read it once again, and, bending down to the hearth, felt eagerly along the coping which surrounded it.
Barbara felt a little quick tug at her sleeve, and turned to Harriet.
She ought not to be there, she felt it rather than knew it, and was painfully aware that people were judging her accordingly.
She was conscious that his eyes were fixed upon her, felt that he understood something of the doubts which troubled her.
When she heard them she always felt that Martin had something to tell her, or could help her in any difficulty she was in at the moment.
Crosby felt that it was true, and that his own thoughts had found expression.
Barbara could do no less than thank him, and felt that he was capable of perjuring himself to any extent to realise his own ends, and wondered if there were any circumstances which could bring her to plead for mercy to Judge Marriott.
He appeared to resent such slavish admiration of Galloping Hermit--perhaps because hefelt that his own pre-eminence was challenged.
The steady grey eyes that met hers were eyes to trust--she felt that at once.
If she consented to marry him she felt that she might persuade him to anything.
I don't suppose I'd been in the hospital ten minutes; but I felt as old as Methuselah.
He coloured and shook his head, and I felt I had blundered.
I felt that my fate was sealed for the night, and prepared to seek my couch on the softest plank I could find, between the two men who looked the warmest of the party.
I had delayed starting for St. Paul until a day or two before the meeting of the convention, and having heard rumors that there would be trouble in organizing it, I felt very anxious to be there on the opening day.
The Indians felt that it would be necessary to carry Fort Ridgely and New Ulm, before they extended their depredations further down the valley of the Minnesota, and concentrated their forces for an attack on the fort.
There he feltthe public pulse, and not finding any immediate indications that he would be chosen senator, and not having any pressing business in any other line, he emigrated to California.
The cushions were made of twelve pairs of four-point Mackinaw blankets, and the side rails were capable of carrying two carcasses of venison or mutton, so I felt quite capable of conquering a blizzard.
If it be any consolation, it is certain that, although we may not invade England, the evils arising from the war will be as sensibly and more permanently felt by Great Britain than by the United States.
Not a ray of sunlight filtered through the large leaves; a delicious sense of peace pervaded the perfumed twilight, and Mateel, who was always tired lately, felt that she could rest here, and gave a happy sigh.
Max was clasped close in the prince's arms and felt his warm tears on his face.
The boy hastened up the river until he saw with alarm that he was near the sand-bar where he had secured the belt; and when he felt a hand steadily drawing him to the bar, he was frantic with fear.
And while she gazed, longing to follow it, she felt the pressure of a small hand on her shoulder.
But he did not do things by halves when he set himself a task, and I feltthat but for him I should certainly have been a victim--to Mara, or to whom?
I minded the story of the Huntsman's Leap, and how I had felt when I knew my escape.
But there was no stair, and as I groped my hand came on cut stone, and when I felt it I knew that I had come to a doorway, for I found the woodwork, but in no way could I find how it opened.
There fell a little uneasy silence after that outburst of the king's, but I felt that I had not yet heard all that they would tell me.
I felt no shadow of regret for the choice I had made.
He took it up, and I knew that after all he had feltsomewhat as he had made me feel when I saw help close to me and might not have it.
Five minutes more of painful sawing and straining and I felt another strand give way.
I do not know that I ever felt such terror as fell on me then.
But the more I came to look on the South Saxon's round face, and to think of him as Elfrida's favoured lover, the less I felt it.
So I must make the best of it, and I will say that I felt foolish enough.
But what I had felt was a heavy angle iron that was bolted by one arm to the post and by the other to a thick beam that crossed the ship from side to side, so as to bind the two together.
But it was sheltered under this barrier, and I felt along it to find out where I had to climb over, thinking that the stairway must lead up its face.
Whatever strange fears my friends had feltpassed with the sight of danger.
I felt because of the unwarranted and unjust attack of the President, and labored with members to secure an expression of some kind, tending to abate the awful slaughter of my race.
They usually are felt by the expectant mother between the seventeenth and eighteenth weeks.
Glands feltunder the arm enlarge because of trouble or infection in the breast, hand, or arm; while glands in the groin are usually due to some infection of the feet, legs, or abdomen.
Never has Private Smith's face felt so large and smooth as when he hands his Captain the following message at what he feels is an unsuitable moment: "The G.
And having been through it all, he has just put down what he has seen and heard and felt and smelt and--laughed at.
It is not fun poked by a mere looker-on, it is the fun felt in the war by one who has been through it.
So I took the other pistol from the holster as meaning with it to go off and leave the horse, yet could I not again mount the steps, for as it seemed to me a strong draught of wind kept me back; and now I felt my flesh creep indeed.
And because I saw that I wanted an opportunity to shew the courage which I felt in me, it vexed me that I could not every day have the chance to meet the adversary in arms and try the result.
For that cause I determined to deal as others did, and to say what would please each, yea, to approach every man with respect though I felt it not: for most of all I felt 'twas mine own pride had burdened me with the most enemies.
But as time changeth all things, so by degrees the grief which I felt for my hermit grew less and less, and the sharp cold of winter without quenched the heat of my steadfast purpose within.
Could he have known what I felt at the moment when he turned from me, he would have pitied me; for his nature, his character, cannot be quite altered in a few months, though he has ceased to love Leonora.
If my views had been less pure, if I had felt less reliance on the firmness of my own principles, and less repugnance to artifice, I might easily have avoided some appearances, which have injured me in the eyes of the world.
But perhaps I do her injustice, and she felt nothing of what her countenance expressed.
In the whole course of my life I never felt so much self-reproach as I have done since I heard of the illness of Leonora and the loss of my son.
My husband folded me in his arms; and, till I felt his burning lips, I forgot that he was ill.
She thinks it an adequate apology for a criminal attachment, to tell you that "the net was thrown over her heart before she felt her danger: that all its struggles were to no purpose, but to exhaust her strength.
How her husband started, when he felt her catch by his arm as she fell!
I have not felt so happy for many months--but I will not be too sanguine.
Before I felt my danger, I was entangled beyond the possibility of escape.
You cannot conceive how much I have felt from this misunderstanding--the first we have ever had.
You know that I am not naturally or habitually of a suspicious temper, but I am conscious of having lately felt a disposition to jealousy.
Not that he felt any concern on his own account; but he would have felt much easier in his mind had Harry been persuaded to stay at the shanty.
The further they advanced the more they felt the force of the current.
He was evidently crazed with fire-water, and Gamache felt in no mood to try a tussle with so brawny an opponent.
Mile after mile of the dreary, toilsome way was slowly yet steadily overcome, each one adding to poor Harry's weariness, until he felt as if he must give up the struggle and throw himself down in the snow to die.
Her whole heart was in her enterprise, and she felt as though she would die rather than turn back.
At the end of an hour she felt very tired, and throwing herself down on a bank of moss at the foot of a forest monarch, gave way to the tears that hitherto she had resolutely restrained.
He therefore felt sure of an attentive listener as he proceeded to unfold the cause of his excitement.
I felt a little tired, and sat down on a boulder to rest a bit.
Wilby felt very grateful to Oscar and to his uncle also, and thankful that he had not lost his life.
A certain delicacy made him unwilling to define or discuss the things for which he felt the highest reverence, and a similar detached but respectful attitude is still a living constituent of Chinese society.
Old worships were felt to be unsatisfying: new ones were freely adopted: mysteries were relished.
The artist justly felt that so long a stretch of plain stone would be wearisome, and as decoration, his work is successful.
While they were subject to Camboja they must have felt the influence of Śivaism and possibly of Mahayanist Sanskrit Buddhism but no Pali Buddhism can have come from this quarter[200].
The interest felt by the Siamese in Ceylon at this period is shown by the Siamese translation of the Mahâvaṃsa made in 1796.
But the Chinese still felt uneasy and in 1705 succeeded in inducing him to undertake a journey to Peking.
So soon as there were several competent teachers handing on the tradition such a safeguard was felt to be unnecessary.
It is hard to say to what extent the Mongols beyond such parts of northern China as felt the direct influence of the imperial court were converted to Lamaism.
Hou-Ching was ashamed and told his officers that he had never felt such fear before and would never dare to see Wu-Ti again.
In the north it is natural that Moslim influence should not have made itself felt at once.
The works of Alberuni and Mohsin Fani show that educated Mohammedans felt an interest not only in Indian science but in Indian religion.
Satan holds undisputed empire, and man has never felt the power of Christian civilization.
As you sat before him in the lecture-room, he felt it a sweet privilege to talk to you so freely of Christian duty and responsibility.
Like the expiring Hobbes, more than two thousand years later, the grand old Athenian felt himself "taking a leap in the dark.
The lecturer was asking whether she felt she would care to write a paper.
She felt as she had felt years ago, when she wrote her paper for Professor Amery, only ten times more bewildered, almost delirious.
There were others as lonely as herself at school, there are always many lonely in a community; but she did not realize this, and felt herself exceptional.
There was something so solid and comfortable about his face that she felt she must tell him.
She felt bitterly the reproach in Evelyn's letter, "If only you could have come.
She never felt after it that she was completely unwanted.
It had in fact satisfied her, only because she had felt so uncared-for that she became insignificant even to herself.
We have not known one another very long, but I must say I very soon felt that she would be one who could take your dear mother's place.
In the midst of envy, she felt something like contempt for Miss Arundel as a child running after shadows.
But at forty, as I have said, she felt she was beyond advice, so she would not notice Miss Gurney's hints.
Many letters had passed between the sisters, but it was so long since they had seen one another that each felt a little shy at the meeting.
The wound she had thought healed burst out afresh; for a few seconds she felt as if she could hardly breathe.
This was the view she presented to her husband, so that though they tried not to show it in their manner, they both felt a little aggrieved.
He felt that contradiction amply justified him in wrapping himself up in his paper for the rest of the evening, vouchsafing "um" and "ah" occasionally after imploring pressure from his aunt.
The children felt that their parents found them something of a burden, and in those days there was no cult of childhood to soften the hard reality.
She felt as if it had not happened to her, but to some ordinary girl who had ordinary prosperity.
Mosby made the cavalry a formidable amalgamation of fire power and mobility and his influence on military history was felt directly, and survived him by many years.
So, when Virginia voted in favor of secession, Mosby, while he deplored the choice, felt that he had no alternative but to accept it.
One suggested the Falkland Islands, and another New Guinea, while Labrador was felt by many to be exactly the place for convict colonisation.
Knowing their value, they presumed on it, and feltthat they were too useful to be sent off as rough farm hands into the interior.
It was darkness that could be felt, for I felt it, and the silence was like the silence of upper space.
Here again was felt the want of overseers and superintendents of a class superior to that of the convicts, through whom discipline and interior economy might be maintained and regulated.
Naturally those selected felt a tenderness for the shortcomings of their fellows, and it was more than difficult to detect or bring home offences to the guilty.
The want of provision for public worship was at this time largely felt throughout the colony, and seldom were churches at hand for the convicts to attend, even if such attendance had been insisted upon.
One free overseer, named Smith, who was also superintendent of the cook-house, urged that he was all day among the prisoners, and felt his life hardly safe if it were known that he had taken part in the search.
Indeed it was felt on all sides that there was no longer any safety for either life or property.
I was ruptured by carrying heavy weights, the effect of which I have frequently felt since, and do to the present day.
Any, and they were not few, who felt idle and indisposed to work, remained behind in bed.
His energies were devoted to the improvement of his parishioners, but his influence wasfelt far and wide.
Henry then felt himself free, and made friends with the exiled Arundels.
Its wider historic significance--it was felt by its author to be adapted to the needs of the Church at large, and was generally welcomed as such--is great but hard to determine in detail.
Unless we felt driven by them to explore the nature of things, "it would never occur to us to distinguish one thing from another.
France, he felt bound to fulfil his obligations to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and also to the German king Maximilian, by an invasion of France in 1492.
Then I felt a deep compassion for the gentleman's dejection, For privation of affection would refrigerate a frog.
When on the virtues of the quick you've dwelt, The pride of residence was all youfelt (What vain vulgarian the wish ne'er knew To paint his lodging a flamboyant hue?
When next I felt my demon in possession, And made the field of authorship a waste, All said of me: "What execrable taste, To rail at others of his own profession!
He felt remorseful, too, because He wasn't half they said he was.
Grief for an absent lover, husband, friend, Is barely felt before it comes to end: A score of early consolations serve To modify its mouth's dejected curve.
Besides, the melancholy cry Was that of one, 'tis now conceded, Whose plight no one beneath the sky Felt half so poignantly as he did.
O, hadst thou died when thou wert great, When at thy feet a nation knelt To sob the gratitude it felt And thank the Saviour of the State, Gods might have envied thee thy fate!
There were many people here, none of the best-favored or best clad, busily erecting tents, but the child felt it an escape from the town, and drew her breath more freely.
The Marchioness, having arranged the bedclothes more comfortably, andfelt that his hands and forehead were quite cool, cried a little more, and then applied herself to getting tea ready, and making some thin dry toast.
So very weak and spent she felt as she lay down, so very calm and unresisting, that she had no thought of any wants of her own, but prayed that God would raise up some friend for him.
She sat down one day in this old and silent place, among the stark figures on the tombs and gazing round with a feeling of awe tempered with calm delight, felt that now she was happy and at rest.
There was only a dark passage between this door and the place where she had changed the money, and being very certain that no person had passed in or out while she stood there, she felt that she had been watched.
The old man cast no longer fearful looks behind, but felt at ease and cheerful, for the further they passed into the deep green shade of the woods, the more they felt that the tranquil mind of God was there, and shed its peace on them.
The child had repeated her artless prayers once that morning, more earnestly, perhaps, than she had ever done in her life; but as she felt all this, they rose to her lips again.
And why might even Esther not forget When once she feltthe spell of royal power-- The tinsel show and glamour of the court?
The mother felt the birdlings stir beneath her wing, And their scarlet stain suffuse her being.
My pen has stabbed To death a thousand men and never felt Compunction for the deed, because I knew They hated me.
It is considered a disgrace for a Jewish mother to have a premature birth, for it is feltthat some blame attaches to the mother.
Manifestly the well-known professor of psychology envied those who lived lives of prayer and felt that he was missing something in life from not possessing the developed faculty to enjoy their privileges.
Knowing how short his life might be, I once asked him whether he felt no concern lest the work already done by him should be frustrate, from the lack of its necessary complement, in case he were suddenly cut off.
After ten minutes of setting-up exercises, with the blood coursing through his muscles and deep breaths of outdoor air to oxygenate sluggish tissues, he feltlike another man.
I felt so happy and uplifted after this act, that for two months I wasn't tempted to touch a drop.
That it was something of a solitude, and that he felt it to be so there are many indications in his letters at this period.
Lord and Lady Galloway did indeed receive me as a child of their own, which I felt deeply.
He arrived there a day or two after a sad fatality at Christ Church, the shock of which was deeply felt by all--even the most wild and thoughtless--of the members of the House.
To this {214} effort he felt absolutely unequal, and he wrote as follows to his assessor: Jan.
There were great doings on the 12th at Rothesay, from which I gather you are now considered Somebody, instead of being Nobody (which I always felt you were wrong in ever permitting).
Sir James Fergusson, as Bute's guardian, probably felt it necessary to take this view in self-vindication.
I was being "recuperated" so pleasantly, that I enjoyed playing off sick after I felt strong and active enough to have undertaken to walk right through Tennessee and Kentucky to my home.
Once well over the river, which is neither deep nor wide, we puttered about the other shore long enough to allow any one who had felt disposed to watch our movements to become satisfied that we were only out for a little fun.
I felt that I was so thinned out and pale, my hair closely cut, and otherwise altered, especially by my new clothes, that I should not be recognized by anybody who had recently seen me so ragged in the Rebel Army at Manassas.
I felt sure that I was the subject of their conversation, but like most persons who feel this way when their consciences trouble them, I was mistaken.
Any way, I felt at the time that he was not as much interested in the matter as I had supposed he would be.
I felt so sorry, too, and with a sigh of relief and an uttered hope for better luck next time, bade the Colonel a good-night.
I felt safe enough, and knew then that, for the first night in months, I could lie down to sleep in perfect security, not dreading or fearing what the next day would bring forth.
When I got behind the tree, I feltperfectly safe from an attack of the whole Rebel army.
I felt that somehow I should be able, from this fact, to come out all right, though I was sorely puzzled to discover that, in appearance, the star seemed to be almost over the top of the mountain that I was so anxious to get away from.
The figure is very simple and natural, and has only been felt to be difficult and obscure, because people have tried to ride the metaphor further than it was meant.
The life of Jesus Christ, in its brief records in Scripture, is felt by every thoughtful man to contain within its narrow compass adequate direction for, and to set forth the ideal of, human life.
If joy has come to them, they have been thankful for it, but they have very, very seldom felt that, if they are not glad, there is something wrong.
There is ever an unknown margin felt by us to be over after our capacity of receiving is exhausted.
And not only so, but perpetually with the increasing sweep and stringency of the obligation will be felt an increasing sense of our failure to fulfil it.
If you do not, you surround yourself with darkness that may be felt here, and ensures for yourself a horror of great darkness in the death hereafter.
He can have little depth of religion who has not often felt that the transcendent glory of that promised future sharpens the doubt--'and can I ever hope to reach it?
And yet they are so closely connected with the words of the previous verse, which formed the subject of my last sermon, that I felt as if my work were only half done unless I followed that sermon with this.
How can a man sin when God's eye is felt to be upon him?
