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Example sentences for "her brain"

  • Hilda heard the kitchen door slammed to behind her, but the noise was like a hallucination in her brain.

  • The sounds of the water outside had stolen through her ears and made a picture in her brain.

  • Indeed before it was finished she had learned to regard it with a feeling of mingled awe, affection, and admiration, and the little boat had made for itself a place in her brain.

  • Louder and louder grew the tumult of the waters, till their sound seemed to fall in a solid thunder on her brain.

  • And he was neither her own virgin-born ideal; nor had his presence the power to beget another and truer ideal in her brain.

  • Sinister though the night might seem to her stretched nerves, yet no sense of individual peril penetrated the weary bewilderment of her brain.

  • The look in her husband's eyes that day had brought it back to her, and now like a flashlight it leapt from point to point of her brain, revealing, illuminating.

  • Her brain was in a seething turmoil and her heart was leaping within her like a wild thing suddenly caged.

  • When that memory came to her, her brain seemed to stand still.

  • Like a throbbing undersong--the fiendish accompaniment to the devils' chorus--the gossip of the station as detailed by Tessa ran with glib mockery through her brain.

  • Her brain had no sense, her hands had no feeling, her eyes had no sight; the rushing of waters was loud on her ears, the giddiness of fasting and of fatigue sent the gloom eddying round and round like a whirlpool of shadow.

  • Once from some screen of gaunt and barren rock a shot was fired at her, and flew within a hair's-breadth of her brain; she never even looked around to see whence it had come; she knew it was from some Arab prowler of the plains.

  • Her brain had no sense, her hands had no feeling, her eyes had no sight; the rushing as of waters was loud on her ears, the giddiness of fasting and of fatigue sent the gloom eddying round and round like a whirlpool of shadow.

  • Or was it those strange words that Kieff had uttered and which even yet were running in her brain?

  • With a breathless interest she watched him, and the thunder of his horse's hoofs drummed in her brain.

  • She was very tired, and her head throbbed painfully, but at the back of her brain was an urgent sense of something needed, something that must be done.

  • But how very wicked of her to think such things, and she was frightened to find that she could not think differently; and with sensations of an elopement clattering in her brain, she sat still striving to restrain her thoughts.

  • She was so tired, she wanted to sleep; but the wheel of thought went on and on in her brain.

  • The confusion in her brain seemed to have passed all at once; she felt quite calm and clear.

  • Over and over she found herself repeating these words in her brain.

  • June pushed back her chair; her brain was in a whirl; she stared at Rochester with dazed eyes.

  • Lucy stood by the central table, heedless of Punch and the Graphic, trying to answer, or at all events to formulate the questions rioting in her brain.

  • Explanations took place, and in the midst of them Lucy escaped, the images throbbing a little more vividly in her brain.

  • Her own exposure had unnerved her, and thoughts were colliding painfully in her brain.

  • She read the first page, her heart beating violently as she pored over the figures, her eyes dim and clouded with the trouble of her brain.

  • He looked at her as if he could read every pulsation in every fibre of her brain, and knew exactly what it meant.

  • She lay wide-eyed, feeling hot and cold by turns as the memory of her lover's devouring passion and Biddy's sinister words alternated in her brain.

  • She would feel his arm about her and the magic in her brain.

  • Some teasing sprite had set a waltz refrain running in her brain, and it haunted her perpetually.

  • This house was a cage, and the world--her brain was a cage, until she could obtain her prospect of freedom.

  • The sprite of contrariety mounted to her brain to indemnify her for her recent self-abasement.

  • While these thoughts whirled wildly in her brain it seemed that preparations had been and were being made for departure.

  • She had heard everything and the question was what that knowledge, lodged in her brain, might mean to him and to his friends.

  • No wonder that hour after hour she lay prostrate on the bed, while these dark thoughts hammered away in her brain.

  • Her agitation was terrible, and in place of being clear-headed and ready to act in this emergency, she felt as if her brain was in a turmoil of contending emotions.

  • There used to be a superstition that two brain-workers could not live comfortably under the same roof, but as a matter of fact we've proved that a woman keeps her husband far longer if her brain is as productive as his.

  • Dim visions of cloistered forms, moving in a blessed twilight, grew and assumed familiar shape amid the dumb desolation reigning in her brain.

  • Her brain whirled: she was striving to think steadily trying to find the right way to reassure him--to forestall any impulsive chivalry born of imaginary obligation.

  • She covered her face with both hands: there was a noise like thunder in her brain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her character; her cousin; her desk; her door; her feet; her friend; her great; her hat; her heart; her lips were parted; her master; her mistress; her seat; her shoulders; her son; her that; her window; herbaceous plants; here given; here goes; here the; here used; hereafter shall; hereby declare; hereditary monarch; heroic picture