Senses

Examples

• It was only when I had joined him there that I heard what had alarmed his quicker senses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• To believe is in this case to feel an immediate impression of the senses, or a repetition of that impression in the memory. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• For that is a contradiction in terms, and suppose that the senses continue to operate, even after they have ceased all manner of operation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I know that such a girl as Harriet is exactly what every man delights inwhat at once bewitches his senses and satisfies his judgment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Nothing is in the intellect which was not previously in the senses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thoughts to the person, along with all the surrounding objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There remains therefore nothing but the senses, which can convey to us this original impression. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Again I tell you it is not the insignificant private individual--the mere man, with the man's selfish senses--I wish to mate: it is the missionary. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The first of my scattered senses that came back was the sense that warned me to sacrifice anything rather than make an enemy of him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Compound utterances addressed themselves to their senses, and it was possible to view by ear the features of the neighbourhood. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But this is a beauty merely of imagination, and has no foundation in what appears to the senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• An interrupted appearance to the senses implies not necessarily an interruption in the existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Are you in your senses? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Gerald, who was very subtly alert, wary in all his senses, leaned forward and asked smilingly: 'What were you saying? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Twenty years' apprenticeship in the school of Plato had sharpened his logical powers and added to his stock of general ideas, but had not taught him to distrust his senses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He knew nothing of us, for his senses were gone, and he slumbered on till next day, when he died. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I shall go out of my senses, if I have to think that I have driven you away like this. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The black, too, was unconscious, while I, myself, retained my senses, I think, only by sheer will. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• All the information which we possess of the world around us comes to us through the use of the senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• For the senses and muscles are used not as organic participants in having an instructive experience, but as external inlets and outlets of mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This idea, then, is borrowed from, and represents some impression, which this moment appears to the senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I can't say that I woke this morning; the fitter expression would be, that I recovered my senses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The voice that had been music to him, and the eyes that had been light, fell coldly on his senses. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I was dazzled, stimulated: my senses were excited; and being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, I thought I loved her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• To confirm this we may observe, that there are three different kinds of impressions conveyed by the senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The results of the work of the senses, preserved in memory and imagination, and applied in the skill given by habit, constituted experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What an ironical comment of Fate on the strivings of great beings to subordinate the senses to the soul. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It means that you and I together have brought the worst-tempered man in all England to his senses, answered the Count. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But I was not the witness of his grief; for I was lifeless, and did not recover my senses for a long, long time. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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