Emotions

Examples

• All at once, in the midst of his turbulent emotions, Bradley stopped and seemed to challenge his look. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This had dashed the triumphant and rapturous emotions of maternity with grief and fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Perdita's questions had ceased; she leaned on my arm, panting with emotions too acute for tears--our men pulled alongside the other boat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr Wegg, in a languid transport, again dropped over on Mr Venus, and again recovering himself, masked his emotions with a sneeze. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Every event was measured by the emotions of the mind, not by its actual existence, for existence it had none. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I felt no burthen, except the internal one of contrary and contending emotions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He would share their ideas and emotions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Such thoughts do not find their appropriate expression in the emotions of the nursery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He would have thought, even if there were no such design as that, had he brought him there to play with his repressed emotions, and torment him? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She sank into the chair, and for a few moments sat like a statue, while images and emotions were hurrying upon her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• After the tumultuous emotions of the day, I was glad to find on my arrival at the inn that my companions had retired to rest. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Yet, even then, I have checked thick-coming fears with one thought; I would not fear death, for the emotions that linked us must be immortal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Whatever I was about to reply, was interrupted by the powerful emotions of Clara. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She knew that Mr. Gryce was of the small chary type most inaccessible to impulses and emotions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Tears came to my eyes, so that I was forced to turn away that I might hide my emotions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She was not sure of the nature of the emotions she had provoked. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• How much share have the attractions of Nature ever had in the pleasurable or painful interests and emotions of ourselves or our friends? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For pride and humility are pure emotions in the soul, unattended with any desire, and not immediately exciting us to action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Work or industry offers little to engage the emotions and the imagination; it is a more or less mechanical series of strains. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Though warm-hearted and sympathetic, she was not nervous; powerful emotions could rouse and sway without exhausting her spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As engaging the emotions and the imagination, they have the qualities which give the fine arts their quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There is something brave in your spirit, as well as penetrating in your eye; but allow me to assure you that you partially misinterpret my emotions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• With new interests and new emotions to agitate him, the attempt would be simply useless. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was troubled with no misgiving that it was young in me to respond to her emotions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He is completely immersed in large public questions, and is rather inaccessible to all ordinary emotions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Every one of them is capable of cruelties and fine emotions, of despairs and devotions and self-forgetful effort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To prove the ideas of passion and desire not to be innate, they observe that we have a preceding experience of these emotions in ourselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He appeared to be struggling with various conflicting emotions for a few seconds, and then said in a low voice-- 'Tupman only wants your money. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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