But at any rate it spared them the embarrassment of her presence, and the faint shadow that her unhappy past might seem to shed on their radiant future.
He noticed that Madame Olenska pronounced it as if it had a recognised place in her vocabulary, and he wondered if it had been used familiarly in her presence in the horrible life she had fled from.
Something in the sweetness of her voice, its high passion, the strong beauty of her presence woke a poignant longing in my heart.
She never came, and I was as unreasonably angry as if I had deserved the blessing of her presence.
Immediately, having entered her own palace of the Tranquil Motherly Virtues, she caused the Lady A-Kuei to be summoned to her presence, who came, habited in a purple robe and with pins of jade and coral in her hair.
I endured it like a pain that could only be assuaged by her presence, but I endured it angrily.
They were wild, passionate, incoherent; unlike any that had ever passed his lips, or been poured out in her presence.
She spoke very coldly; she repented her profoundly of her concession in admitting a Chasseur d'Afrique to her presence.
The message was passed about between several of the household; at last a servant of higher authority appeared: "Madame permitted Corporal Victor to be taken to her presence.
This good gentlewoman, so far from laying them under a restraint by her presence, encouraged them to run in the fields, and to gather flowers; which they did, each miss trying to get the best to present to her governess.
But meeting again in the same arbour in the evening, when their good mistress continued to them the favour of her presence, Miss Jenny pursued her story.
But Miss Mills, mistrusting the acceptability of her presenceto the higher powers, had not yet gone; and we were all benighted in the Desert of Sahara.
As if, in the retirement of the house made almost sacred to me by her presence, Dora and I must be happier than anywhere.
What if it should come to pass that all the clergymen of the diocese should refuse to open their mouths in her presence on ecclesiastical subjects, as Dr Tempest had done?
He would have done it, I think, but that it was impossible for him to speak in her presence of that which moved her so greatly.
There she was,--and as Dr Tempest was resolved that he would neither give advice nor receive instructions respecting Mr Crawley in her presence, he could only draw upon his courage and his strategy for the coming warfare.
My lord, Mrs Proudie spoke to me on this subject in the breakfast-room after you had left it, and I then ventured to explain to her that in accordance with such light as I have on the matter, I could not discuss it in her presence.
Whilst the flush of his adoration was upon him, hot from the contact of her presence, he knew no repentance, found room in his mind for no regrets.
Then very softly to her presence move, And whisper: "Lady, lo, they know and love!
From my own lips, in August, 1882, she learned that I was sick of her presence, tired of her company, and weary of the sound of her voice.
He abhorred tea, but, since it gave him a little longer time in her presence, he drank it devoutly, and the red-haired girl sat in an untidy heap and eyed him without speaking.
Her presence was a bewildering surprise to me There were three other people in the room and I had to be on my guard "How are you?
I still feel shy in her presence, as if we were brought together for the first time, by a match-maker, don't you know.
When away from the magnetic force of her presence I would attend to business with unabated intensity.
No sooner did I find myself in her presence than an irresistible anxiety to make some secret discovery of the real state of her feelings toward George took possession of me.
My mother's health was so delicate that I hesitated for some time to approach the forbidden subject in her presence.
This was a subject of complaint to Mrs. Bellmont; and Frado endeavored to throw off all appearance of sickness in her presence.
She was very careful never to shed tears on his account, in her presence, afterwards.
Except this tendency to egotism, she was the charm of society, the life of the party whom she enlivened by her presence.
Happening to call one evening when Celine did not expect me, I found her out; but it was a warm night, and I was tired with strolling through Paris, so I sat down in her boudoir; happy to breathe the air consecrated so lately by her presence.
All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear (I am glad it is not naturally a silent one): all the sunshine I can feel is in her presence.
Never before had William wasted the minutes ofher presence in writing his letters.
It was marvellous how much they found to feed upon, considering the destructive nature of Denham's criticism in her presence.
Since they had stopped talking, she had become to him not so much a real person, as the very woman he dreamt of; but his solitary dreams had never produced any such keenness of sensation as that which he felt in her presence.
His mind at once was filled with a sense of the actual presence of Katharine; the gray house and the intense blue sky gave him the feeling of her presence close by.
Solomon in all his glory would have been ashamed of himself in her presence.
To be sure he was much in her presence, a welcome member of the group that liked to idle on the veranda of the inn, and in the frequent excursions, in which Philip seemed to be the companion of Mrs. Mavick rather than of her daughter.
And this was what impressed the reporters when, in the line of their public duty, they were admitted to her presence.
Why, certainly, Miss Vance," he answered, still too much stupefied by her presence to realize it.
He had his pride in being a pagan, a Greek, but it failed him in her presence, now; and he wished that she had protested he was none.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her presence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
