Sensibility

Examples

• Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Her sensibility was potent enough! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• In a short restless interval of sensibility, or partial sensibility, I made out that he asked for you to be brought to sit by him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Peasant girls as they were, they had too much of our own English sensibility to be guilty of the coarse error. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Halcombe is a person of similar sensibility. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Why, he slowly replied, roughening his head more and more, he is all sentiment, and--and susceptibility, and--and sensibility, and--and imagination. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Many public institutions experienced his well-timed liberality, and he manifested a sensibility of heart by numerous acts of private charity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I could not excuse a man's having more music than lovemore ear than eyea more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings. Jane Austen. Emma.
• For sensibility and genius, with all their tenderness and temerity, I felt somehow that Madame would be the right sort of Minos in petticoats. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But it would have broke MY heart, had I loved him, to hear him read with so little sensibility. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• To a person of similar sensibility this simple assertion will explain and excuse everything. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was a sensibility and sweetness in his disposition, that gave a tender and unearthly tone to our converse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Emma agreed to it, and with a blush of sensibility on Harriet's account, which she could not give any sincere explanation of. Jane Austen. Emma.
• At every new attempt to look about him the same morbid sensibility to light was manifested, and excoriating tears ran down his cheeks. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• From the primitive or nutrient soul which ha s to do with the vital functions of growth and reproduction, is developed the sentient soul, concerned with movemen t and sensibility. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• These were young girls, like herself; some perhaps pretty, some not without a trace of her finer sensibilities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No new calamity shall lacerate your sensibilities--sensibilities precious to me as my own. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have to thank these pages for awakening the finest sensibilities in my nature--nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She seemed encased in a strong armour of indifference, as though the vigorous exertion of her will had finally benumbed her finer sensibilities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• What fine hidden sensibilities are touched in such a case, no echoes tell; but it is so, and it was so here. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Such an exercise would, I fear, involve a considerable strain on what reformers call their moral sensibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Her sensibilities were so weak and tremulous that perhaps they ought not to be talked about in a book. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I didn't know what it was to be a mother; unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me, and so on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This trivial crape expresses sensibilities which I summon Mr. Hartright to respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her sensibilities, I suspect, are strongand her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience, self-control; but it wants openness. Jane Austen. Emma.

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