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Example sentences for "had felt"

  • He filled me with something of the same repulsion I had felt when I touched the unnameable Thing that fastened on my neck while I slept in the vault.

  • The suspicion that I had felt when I looked into the outhouse became a certainty as I listened to the old monk's last words.

  • I had felt, some minutes before, as if I could have struck the policeman, and I felt now as if I could have thrown my arms round the doctor's neck and kissed him.

  • As events turned out, he proved to be a far better friend than that, and he soon showed me that I had very much underrated the hearty and generous interest which he had felt in my welfare from the first.

  • He had felt even, for the moment, vulgar.

  • He had felt on his nearer approach the high temperature of the question.

  • The circumstance of not being noticed, which a few minutes since he had felt as a relief, became now a cause of annoyance.

  • He was really interested in what Coningsby had seen, and what he had felt; and this sympathy divested his manner of the disagreeable effect that accompanies a tone inclined to be dictatorial.

  • Was that force that he had felt when he was a child simply eager superstition?

  • Long reflection was impossible; suddenly he felt carried away by a fierce and mad longing to fight it out--he felt as he had felt on a race-day in the hippodrome, when he had driven his own quadriga ahead of all the rest.

  • He had felt this, and had partly given up all hope, while his father had been urging upon him the very course he most desired to take.

  • Indeed, there was no one equal to himself among the men with whom he associated, and this he had felt as a depressing influence, although he had never recognized the cause of his depression.

  • He felt as he had felt in the old days when people sneaked up on him in Wall Street and tried to loosen his grip on a railroad or a pet stock.

  • Such a combat, he had felt, could hardly fail to result in personal injury to either the party of the first part or the party of the second part, or both.

  • In other directions she had urged him on, and he had felt this as a confirmation and augmentation of his own being; but now she was silent.

  • He felt strangely excited, very much as he had felt when, in his childhood, he arrived in Bornholm with his father and could see nothing, but heard the movement of thronging life behind the mist.

  • I needed all she had just told' me to confirm me in the interest which I had felt in her from the first moment.

  • I told the Abbe Grimani that I was only passing through Venice, and that I had felt it a duty and a pleasure to pay my respects to him.

  • I told him that all his features were those of a woman, and that I wanted the testimony of my eyes before I could feel perfectly satisfied, because the protuberance I had felt in a certain place might be only a freak of nature.

  • I had felt interested in the young Frenchwoman when she was hiding under the bed-clothes: she had taken my fancy the moment she had shewn her features, and still more when I had seen her dressed.

  • I told my story, and, seeing that she was pensive, I exaggerated the misery I had felt at not being able to complete my conquest.

  • It was the music, a hackneyed theme of Schubert's played heavily, that seemed to arouse the composite emotion of anger and hatred, yet of sustained attraction and wild regret she had felt before, but never so poignantly as now.

  • Loneliness he had felt before, and to its ills he had applied the antidote of labour.

  • When she had entered the boardroom, he had felt a potent sense of longing.

  • At odd times it had felt as though it was all still there.

  • A few months ago, when he had felt doubt, she had helped him regain his focus and set the stage for today's meeting.

  • He pulled her hard against him, as if it were the first time he had felt a woman's body against his own.

  • Then, he had felt it in his heart: "There is a path in front of you, you are destined for, the gods are awaiting you.

  • I recognized that tremor, for I had felt it, and I could not be deceived.

  • He had felt on rising that morning, the morning of the horrible day, a little dizziness and headache, which he attributed to the heat, so that he remained in his room until breakfast time.

  • At that moment he had felt inclined to cast himself at the old woman's feet and to exclaim: "I am the guilty one!

  • He said that he had felt so bad about Clem that he did not notice what the car was like.

  • But, brief as his sickness was, he had felt that it was to be his last, and had solemnly talked over her future with her, which he seemed to think would be lonely.

  • He felt again all, or nearly all, that he had felt then of helplessness, abandonment, despair.

  • He had felt full of an energy that was feverish.

  • In the white and silent day Artois again felt the stirring of intuition, as he had felt it long ago.

  • Even she, on that day when she had returned from Capri, had felt a sensation of returning to meet some grievous tale.

  • He had felt as if he were apart, even almost as if he were de trop.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commercial crops; containing the information called; des gens; female education; had committed; had enough; had fallen; had formed; had had; had learned; had little; had lost; had made; had none; had nothing; had now; had received from the; had recourse; had said; had seen; had set; had spent; had the; had time; had used; will boil