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Example sentences for "vague sense"

  • He was so unaccustomed to even giving a thought to household details, that he had a vague sense of self-pity because he was now obliged to do so.

  • Instead, she had a vague sense of distinction on account of it.

  • The only explanation would be that the "vague sense of injustice" mentioned below must have been felt by him so keenly as to warp for the moment his moral judgment.

  • One does not easily get rid of a vague sense of injustice in this, but the injustice was not of man's contriving.

  • It was not without a vague sense of terror that the hunchback remained alone with the lady superior.

  • Princess, oppressed with a vague sense of fear.

  • I think people had a vague sense of rebuke in his presence.

  • He had a vague sense of having seen him before, but could not remember where.

  • The fact was Miss Tempest kept down all her feelings, with a vague sense that to show them would be to waste her substance: it was the one shape that the yet lingering selfishness of a very unselfish person took.

  • Ellen could see, even without turning round, that her father looked very sober, and did not seem to be much interested in his paper, and a vague sense of calamity oppressed her.

  • A vague sense of injury was over Ellen, in spite of her delight and her gratitude--a sense of injury which she could not fathom, and for which she chided herself.

  • Isabel was haunted by a vague sense of impropriety, which she ridiculed but could not stifle.

  • This bedroom was so simple and girlish that it gave him a vague sense of pleasure.

  • This troubles me and causes me a vague sense of uneasiness.

  • The incessant colloquy between him and the sea gave him a vague sense of prostration, as if the sublime language were beyond his restricted powers, so eager to grasp the meaning of the incomprehensible.

  • And feeling the breath of triumph surge round him, a vague sense of resentment rose up in him against the possibilities of the morrow.

  • I can hardly say what the reason of it was, but it is very certain that I had a vague sense of some impending event as we took our seats in the Master's library.

  • I had been but a short time in his library when a vague sense of uneasiness came over me.

  • It was like stirring a stick amongst a drift of last year's leaves, to awaken but a dry rustling, a vague sense of unsubstantiality.

  • A dull commiseration, together with a vague sense of injury, crept about Soames' heart.

  • She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

  • This surprising event, coinciding too completely with her meeting with Dorset to be regarded as contingent upon it, had yet immediately struck Lily with a vague sense of foreboding.

  • It was certainly strange that she should have taken this step without letting Gerty Farish know of her decision; and Selden waited with a vague sense of uneasiness while the address was sought for.

  • One Sunday a vague sense of duty to his still missing benefactor impelled him to spend part of his holiday upon the wharves.

  • And a vague sense of his responsibility, as one who had been the luckiest, and who was building the first "house" in the camp, troubled him.

  • The ardor with which he had spoken, This close, rapid question, thus suddenly broken, Inspired in Matilda a vague sense of fear, As though some indefinite danger were near.

  • And then, when he turned from these thoughts to Lucile, Though his heart rose enraptured he could not but feel A vague sense of awe of her nature.

  • Theos noted his behavior with a vague sense of amusement,--the man took such evident delight in his own ill- humor, and seemed to be so thoroughly convinced that his opinion on all affairs was the only one worth having.

  • He heard, with a vague sense of mingled pleasure and sadness, the deep, mellow tones of the monarch's voice vibrating through the silence, .

  • During the latter part of August Breed was conscious of a vague sense of loneliness.

  • The recovery of her breath was accompanied by a vague sense of loss which rapidly deepened into an ache of loneliness so oppressive that her whole spirit was weighed down by it.

  • Leonard Greenleaf stopped short, his breathlessness mingling with the annoyance at having let himself be carried away by his ideas, and producing a vague sense of warm helplessness.

  • She had gazed at it often with a vague sense of comprehension and a feeling that the contemplation of it brought within her grasp the spirit of the chivalrous past.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being somewhat; but every; can remember; capped mountains; commonly known; eight grains; feet dark; former letter; habeas corpus; light step; little food; local colour; los hombres; none the; nothing less; recall something; tel des; this committee; vague feeling; vague idea; vague sense; water cure; will ride; wooded hills