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Example sentences for "she felt"

  • She felt a cruel sting from it on the day when she told Leslie of what she hoped the spring would bring to the little house of dreams.

  • Anne could hardly discard it completely, for there were undoubtedly times when she felt, with an instinct that was not to be combated by reason, that Leslie harbored a queer, indefinable resentment towards her.

  • Complete the case, my good lady--complete the case.

  • This cool question irritated Mrs. Ferrari into expressing herself plainly at last.

  • He drummed absently with his fingers on the table.

  • There, when the full view of the moonlit Lagoon revealed itself, she stopped him as he turned towards the Riva degli Schiavoni.

  • With these claims on the gratitude of the aunt, aided by the personal advantages which he unquestionably possessed, Arthur advanced rapidly in the favour of the charming niece.

  • She felt able to support her mother, and she could find no excuse, if she wished to do so, for not supporting her.

  • Till they were paid, she felt like a beggar.

  • She felt assured he was cold and cruel enough to execute his wicked threat to turn them out of the house, though her mother had not been off her bed for many weeks.

  • She felt rich; that is she was proud of being able to pay all she owed, and she did not like to be thought capable of accepting a gift--of being the recipient of charity.

  • She felt a secret stir of pleasure at the immediate inference that she and Darrow would probably lunch alone.

  • She felt, saw, breathed the shining world as though a thin impenetrable veil had suddenly been removed from it.

  • She felt a pang of regret for the wasted years.

  • She felt as if he were leagues and leagues away from her.

  • She felt like a slave, and a goddess, and a girl in her teens.

  • She had never felt the means taken to accomplish her end so unutterably degrading to herself, as she felt them on the day when the end was reached.

  • Never had she felt the illimitable power which a woman's love possesses of absorbing into itself every other event, every other joy or sorrow of her life, as she felt it then.

  • He only asked if she felt comfortable; and then turned away to leave the room.

  • Never, in all her former experience, had poor Mrs. Wragge felt the full weight of the captain's indignation as she felt it now.

  • You have referred to the letters written by my pupil," she resumed, addressing Noel Vanstone as soon as she felt sure of herself again.

  • She felt a stirring in the bed beside her, the movement of some living thing.

  • She felt as if she were struggling in a great sea--the sea of his love for her--struggling to reach the safety of the shore.

  • She looked guiltily at him--she felt no thrill of pride or love at the thought that he was her husband, she his wife.

  • She felt faint, and her thoughts were like flocks of circling, croaking crows.

  • That woman, she felt, had a crushing superiority over her; and this, while it had given a higher order to the Thuillier establishment, made her ill at ease.

  • Madame Colleville was deeply affected by the death of young Gondreville; she felt, she said, the finger of God.

  • The difference his presence made to her was not always a happy one: she felt that he often inwardly objected to her speech.

  • She felt an immense need of some one to speak to, and she had never before seen any one who seemed so quick and pliable, so likely to understand everything.

  • She had been at school with girls of higher position, whose brothers, she felt sure, it would have been possible for her to be more interested in, than in these inevitable Middlemarch companions.

  • She felt a new companionship with it, as if it had an ear for her and could see how she was looking at it.

  • She felt as if all her morning's gloom would vanish if she could see her husband glad because of her presence.

  • If there was a touch of appreciation left in him for the bloom and unsophistication which is the charm of youth, it rekindled now.

  • She had applied in the cheapest kind of places without success.

  • Carrie looked over the large bill of fare which the waiter handed her without really considering it.

  • Well," said Hurstwood as he rode away, "she likes me all right; that I know.

  • She felt disinclined to think, felt a lassitude in her limbs a complete self-relaxation, as if she were intoxicated.

  • She felt such a softening at her heart, and such a relaxation of her nerves, that she began to cry, without knowing why.

  • She felt an infinite longing for happiness, for some sudden demonstration of tenderness, for a revelation of divine poesy.

  • She felt it, she knew it: her guilty conscience owned and feared its master in Julian Gray!

  • It was almost maddening to contemplate that result, feeling her own position as she felt it.

  • She felt, rather than saw, Lady Janet's attention steadily and suspiciously fixed on her.

  • Keenly as she felt this, Mercy failed, nevertheless, to conquer the horror that shook her when she thought of the impending avowal.

  • She felt, as she looked at Julia and Mr. Rushworth, that hers was not the only dissatisfied bosom amongst them: there was gloom on the face of each.

  • It was her intention, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive, all that bordered on selfishness, in her affection for Edmund.

  • She felt that he had been very ill-used, and was quite unhappy in having to communicate what had passed.

  • This violence is all most repulsive:" and so, no doubt, she felt it.

  • One little gray bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing.

  • So brief a journey would bring thee from a world where thou hast been most wretched, to one where thou mayest still be happy!

  • But still, methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it up in his heart.

  • And what hast thou to do with all these iron men, and their opinions?

  • She felt a morbid desire to ascertain the point.

  • Of her father's being groundlessly suspected, she felt sure.

  • All these qualities, in him usually so light and careless, she felt to be inseparable from some touch of their opposites in her own breast.

  • I infer that it must be because I feel just as she felt about it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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