He makes reference to the fact that the other senses are not dependent on each other, but that the hearing becomes more acute in a blind man.
Then again, have we not also the fivesenses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting?
But his senses seemed to be returning, for presently he sat up, found his handkerchief, staunched the rather insignificant abrasion, and settled back into his corner.
His senses returned gradually; after a while he got up and walked down to the edge of the brook with all the dignity that unsteady legs permitted.
My dear girl, nobody in his senses could possibly think you were doing right, and nobody who cared for you could want you to abandon yourself to the impulses of a moment of nervous hysteria.
Miss Betsy's senses were entirely lost for some moments, so that she knew nothing of what passed.
As he stared solicitously, all at once his dazed and sluggish senses sprang to life again with a scorching throb, which left a chill behind it.
With the strange, savage smell of the cages in his nostrils, that bitter, acrid pungency to which his senses never grew blunted, a new spirit of understanding was wont to enter Tomaso's brain.
When all the other animals had been brought to their sensesand driven off, one by one, to their cages, he came forth from his hiding and followed dejectedly, the curl quite taken out of his confident tail.
By those two was he hidden with clothes, and called to his senses again and again.
Letty, too, had been almost out of her senses with the longing to be in Luciline Lynch's place, to do the thing in what was obviously the way.
It's not a danger, of course; but if it was, would anyone in hissenses want to stop it?
You can do what no one else in his senses would ever think of doing; and when you've upset the whole apple cart it must never be referred to again.
She remembered one time in particular when Luciline Lynch, the star in Our Crimson Sins, had driven Frank Redgar, the director, almost out of his senses by her inability to get the right turn of the wrist.
I, that I should be so mad as to drown my senses when never was any wretch in such need of all his reason as I!
It might be, indeed, that a sudden faintness had terrified him nearly out of his senses with a prospect of approaching death; but that would not account for the peculiar note and appearance of age that had entered his figure, face, and voice.
I asked; and it seemed to me that I was the only man who had his senses full just then.
My senses presently returning, I got up, and the rock upon which I stood being level, I fell to pacing it with my hands locked behind me, my head sunk, lost in thought.
He sweated and talked and muttered, but this was from sheer terror; he did not swoon, but sat with a stoop, often pressing his brows and gazing about him like one whose senses are all abroad.
It is further contended that all our physical senses find their exact counterpart in this "etheric double"; there is a physical eye and a spiritual eye; a physical ear and a spiritual ear, etc.
Compared with such delicate instruments, our five senses are coarse indeed, and any vibrations which can affect these same senses must surely affect the more delicate and sensitive instruments just mentioned.
While admitting all this, however, one must also admit that it is easy to go too far in the opposite direction, and reject evidence which depends upon the senses simply because they depend upon them.
The senses are to be relied upon in every science other than psychic research; that seems to be the dictum of the world, and strange and even absurd as it may seem, it is, as we know, more or less founded upon fact.
For a little while the cries died away; then they began again, culminating in a shriek so appalling that Jack's senses failed him with the horror, and at last unconsciousness took him out of his misery.
He sat up manfully near the door, with his back against the wall, for fear of a sudden surprise; but nature in the end was too strong for him, and even in that unrestful position she managed to steep his senses in a profound slumber.
Terror had restored her senses more rapidly than all the arts of love could have done.
A sounder slumber than before came mercifully to steep his senses in oblivion.
There Baudelaire had touched a chord that was to sound loud and long; for what else than this thought of all the senses meeting in union inspired the music drama of Wagner?
For her life, she could not separate the real evidences of her drowsy senses from the vivid images of her imagination.
The senses are not the only vehicles for communicating passing events to the mind," said he, his voice already hollow and sepulchral from the previous excitement of the brain.
But he continued, "How else can we gain knowledge of things which have transpired when all the senses are shut up in profound slumber?
Besides, Upon the Stage both the Senses are in Conjunction.
The secret of the deep reasonableness of such selection by the senses lies hidden in the very nature of number itself, for number is the invisible thread on which the worlds are strung--the universe abstractly symbolized.
She wanted continually fresh diversions, new sports, strange revels, rich viands, all the alluring joys of the senses to which she had of old in her innocence and ignorance been so indifferent.
The glories of the spiritual drew Albrecht as strongly and as irresistibly as the delights of the senses attracted Erna, to whom all this was a new world.
She had so long looked upon Countess Erna as cold and devoid of all warm human passion, that she could scarcely believe the evidence of her own senses now that she beheld the countess with her lips pressed to those of a lover.
It offers marvellous facilities for defining the perceptions of the senses with the utmost accuracy, but regarding everything in the concrete, it is unfriendly to the nobler labors of the mind, to abstraction and generalization.
What value has the evidence of the sensesanywhere against a religious faith?
In the plight of these girls the mere senses are not all in all.
She was lively, swift alike in love and in hatred, hurried away by her heart and her senses also, endowed with very little of the tact and the moderation needed for the governing of such a body.
A holy wafer steeped in Madeline's blood, and buried in the garden, would be sure to disturb their senses and their minds.
No postman would in his senses think of knocking at the massive door of that solitary tower, and if a postman, touched with lunacy, did knock with his knuckles, he would never receive a reply.
The hurrying crowd and throng of vehicles 'confused her senses and her mind.
It would be possible to cite examples by the dozen, of illusions of the senses suggested to excited crowds.
Binet[150] has established, in his excellent essays, this transposition of the senses in hysterical persons.
The senseswhich predominate are those which his being utilizes in acquiring knowledge.
If, on the contrary, they are a generic continuous state, without determined cause and discoverable aim, the music presenting them to the senses will be as blurred and as nebulously fluctuating in form as themselves.
The differentiated senses transform the unity of the phenomenon into the diversity of the percept.
The undeveloped or insufficiently developed senses help the brain little or not at all, to know and understand the world.
His senses close to outside stimulation; for him, the external world ceases to exist; he lives no more than his exclusively personal life; he acts only through his own stimuli, with the automatic movement of his brain.
Every man in possession of his senses can perceive it.
But he said to them: ‘To obey one’s senses is to have character.
Besides, the work of the painter addresses itself to the same senses as the phenomenon of Nature itself, and reproduces it with the help of the same means by which the world itself is revealed to the senses, viz.
Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dulness that they blunt the senses and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being.
But when his soul, capable of religion, capable of love, was moved, all his senses were united in the word or action that followed, and the impression made on you was entire.
He lived out of doors: his climate was genial, his senses were adapted to it.
The sound, the sight, fill the sensesand the mind.
Of course, he was unconscious, but he might come to hissenses at any time and tell his rescuers just what had happened.
I can just remember its hitting me, and after that everything was blank until I came to my senses on the deck of the boat.
The Commonwealth will return to its senses at last; and even if the hetman should not collect a great force, he will annoy the Turk with attacks.
They lose their senses for the moment, revive later on, and when the black-and-blue spot is well, they forget it.
When I think of all she went through I feel as if my senses were leaving me.
Theudelinde gave a shriek; she nearly lost her senses from fright, but gathered herself together with a supreme effort.
You are of a susceptible, nervous temperament; your senses are made acquainted with the first portion of the history, your imagination works out the remainder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
