Feelings
['fi:liŋs]
Definition
(noun.) emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity); 'the remark hurt his feelings'.
Typist: Weldon--From WordNet
Examples
- Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- At last he could keep these feelings to himself no longer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- As for Jane Fairfax, she might at least relieve her feelings from any present solicitude on her account. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Beth's bundle was such a funny one that everybody wanted to laugh, but nobody did, for it would have hurt her feelings very much. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- While there was hope, the agony had been unendurable;--all was now concluded; her feelings became solemn and calm. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o'clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You saw nothing, Caroline; I can cover my feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'if I am to render myself intelligible to this gentleman, I must beg you to control your feelings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He said so repeatedly; other things he said too, which marked the turn of his feelings and gave the lie to his actions. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I don't often show my feelings, I make it a principle to endure everything in silence; it's a wife's hard lot, and I bear it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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