Moods

Examples

• On such occasions an interesting opportunity is offered to study Edison in his intense and constructive moods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• War did not seem real to the moods of that time; nothing seemed real to the moods of that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it is quite all right--I don't want you to mind having biffed me, in the leaSt. Tell the others it is just one of my moods. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But she had other moods besides the arch and na?ve. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Also, when we played at cards Miss Havisham would look on, with a miserly relish of Estella's moods, whatever they were. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He was one of those surgeons whom it is dangerous to vex--abrupt in his best moods, in his worst savage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Paul half apologized; he half regrettedtoo, the fitfulness of his moods at all times, yet he hinted that some allowance ought to be made for him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The Greeks never loved Nature in her grandest moods, and—saving ?schylus—both shaggy mountain and roaring waters were alien to their genius. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You know you can't do otherwise, for all your moods and changes! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Though occasionally chatty, his moods were erratic, and nobody could be certain how he would behave at any particular moment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She had different moods for different people. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Emmeline, in her child-like simplicity, was half afraid of the dark moods of Cassy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Rebecca always knew how to conjure away these moods of melancholy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My Spring is gone, however, but it has left me that French floweret on my hands, which, in some moods, I would fain be rid of. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He became insanely irritable, with moods of inaction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was never seen angry but twice or thrice in her life, and it was in one of these moods that Mr. Osborne's attorney had the fortune to behold her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Her fears of the place were rational, her dislikes of its worst moods reasonable. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Our estimates vary with our moods; the time may be much longer than our hopes and much shorter than our fears. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the Tuesday, Peter Carey was in one of his blackest moods, flushed with drink and as savage as a dangerous wild beast. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No; he was naturally a little man of unreasonable moods. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Shirley probably got on pleasantly with Sir Philip that evening, for the next morning she came down in one of her best moods. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You are in one of your sunless, inclement moods, when one feels a fellow-creature's presence is not welcome to you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The boy had naturally a low, plaintive voice, which in his dour moods rose scarcely above a lady's whisper. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You have such moods. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Try the settee, said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These two men, of hard, bilious natures both, rarely came into contact but they chafed each other's moods. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At his best times and in his best moods had he spoken of them; and the thought of them had struck upon her fancy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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