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Example sentences for "feeling"

Lexicographically close words:
feelers; feeles; feelest; feeleth; feelin; feelingless; feelingly; feelings; feelins; feels
  1. I passed the squatting hare, but had not the heart to betray her, feeling that she deserved to reap the reward of her cleverness.

  2. He was conveyed to his residence at Horncastle, but never recovered the sense of feeling below his neck.

  3. Then, feeling a keen sympathy for the poor persecuted rabbit, I charged into the midst of the pack, and by dint of plunging up and down among the startled company, and striking at them with my whip, I succeeded in dispersing them.

  4. It is not without a feeling of awe, even of sadness, that one with any sense of the wonder of things gazes for the first time on the old book, and thinks of all it has survived.

  5. He struggled against the feeling of weakness, and, while awaiting the time to rejoin his friends, he resolved to write his last wishes.

  6. Her presence, however, and at that moment, aroused in Maud a feeling of indignation so impassioned that her first impulse was to enter, to drive out Boleslas's mistress as one would drive out a servant surprised thieving.

  7. Glancing back, Valbrand saw the bowerman sitting up and feeling of his wounds.

  8. It gives one the feeling that it will melt one's sorrows as it melts the snow," she told herself.

  9. It gives one the feeling that it is so far away that no human foot has ever trod it before, and that none will ever come again when we have left.

  10. They had retained their staffs when they left their skees upon the bank; but even feeling their way step by step was by no means secure.

  11. Now we are to witness the gradual outer approach between Ulysses and Nausicaa, till it becomes internal, and ends in a strong feeling of friendship if not in a warmer emotion.

  12. One cannot help feeling in this passage that the poet hints that these prophecies of Circe have some connection with what Ulysses imparts to her concerning Hades.

  13. It shows the feeling of humanity developed quite to its supreme fullness; it has modern sentiment, nay, it borders at times upon modern sentimentality.

  14. The son (through the mouth of Pallas) here shows some bitter feeling toward his mother, whose mind be manifestly does not understand; she is altogether too subtle for her own boy, who has not seen through her disguises.

  15. A strong unconscious bond of feeling at once unites both.

  16. She hesitates, notwithstanding his strong appeal to her domestic feeling and her sympathy with suffering.

  17. Pallas makes the prayer, a happy one, which brings forth a feeling of harmony between the strangers and all the People.

  18. Truly a strong image of the suppression of feeling in himself and in others.

  19. Still we may notice in the swineherd a strong feeling of oneness with the stranger, an unconscious presentiment of who he is.

  20. One cannot help feeling a symbolic intention in these two olive trees, one wild and one cultivated.

  21. Thus an ideal sense of architecture we note; still more strongly indicated is the feeling for sculpture, the supreme Greek art.

  22. Antinous, though feeling that he and the rest have been outwitted by the woman, does not stint his praise on that account, he even heightens it.

  23. No one can carefully read the Third Book without feeling its religious purport; an atmosphere it has peculiar to itself in relation to the other Books of the Telemachiad.

  24. The miles of road ran past, the air, eager and cold, pressed sharply; there came a feeling of the morning.

  25. But she had not been able to rest, and the feeling had died.

  26. I have a curious, boding feeling about it.

  27. Sairy, "ain't it a real picnic feeling to get back to business?

  28. There was a moment's pause, a feeling as of the edge of things.

  29. Well, to reckon by one's feeling I should say about a week.

  30. I am suffering," he said, "from fever and a feeling of debility.

  31. There was a feeling as if the earth were panting for breath.

  32. Over Allan came a feeling as of a pendulum forever stopped, as of Time but a wreck on the shore of Space, and Space a deserted coast, an experiment of some Power who found it ineffective and tossed it away.

  33. There's an awful feeling about this place!

  34. I have a curious feeling about that man," said Miss Lucy, "and yet it is the rarest thing that I distrust anybody!

  35. Such expressions as these would have indicated feeling of reverence towards God or towards his parent.

  36. And in such a departing sleep would he have been changed and translated into the glorified spiritual life, feeling no more in death than he felt of his body being opened and of the extraction of the rib, with its flesh, from his side.

  37. But when the eyes are distorted or partially blind, they cover us with a certain cloud of defect and with a feeling of shame.

  38. There still remains indeed a feeling of joy and affection in the intended husband toward his spouse; but it is impure and corrupt, on account of sin.

  39. There was nothing in the least "tutorial" in this relation--merely the natural feeling of a girl for a blind and disabled scholar in whose pursuits she took interest.

  40. Up against the arches of the crystal ceiling, From the horse's nostrils shall steam the blurting breath: Up between the angels pale with silent feeling Will the Tamer calmly lead the horse of Death.

  41. I hear no more the horror and the coil Of the great world's turmoil Feeling thy countenance too still,--nor yell Of demons sweeping past it to their prison.

  42. In a moment or so Regnar arose, holding his head with both hands, and an evident feeling of uncertainty as to his whereabouts.

  43. The table was well spread with delicacies, and although some constraint existed, the wine did its work, and soon Blake and Randall were laughing and joking, as if no cause for ill-feeling existed between them.

  44. Feeling a little unwell, he returned to his room, and finding his dog in his bed, flung him into a spare room, and getting into bed, went to sleep.

  45. In the manufacturing districts a different feeling had prevailed for some years.

  46. But he was confident that by this time the feeling of the whole country was with him on the subject.

  47. A somewhat similar act had, as we have also seen, revived the discussion a few years later, when the minister of the day had shown a more temperate feeling on the subject.

  48. And the national feeling is always in favor of the strictly defined authority of the courts of law, rather than of the somewhat indefinite claims of Parliament to interpret, and even to make, privilege.

  49. But the general feeling was against delay.

  50. He was quite aware that on this and similar questions public feeling had undergone great alteration since the beginning of the century.

  51. And we may assert this without implying that, if the single act of empowering Lord Temple to influence the peers by the declaration of the King's private feeling had been submitted by itself to the electors, they would have justified that.

  52. Now, that alone is sufficient to change the quality of feeling in God, and make it an attribute totally distinct from that of man.

  53. They tried, if not to demonstrate it, at least to render it reasonable, feeling sure, unlike their successors, that there is neither dignity nor rest for the believer except in certainty.

  54. We ourselves experience this divine mode of feeling when a single sentiment, absorbing all our faculties, as in the case of ecstasy, temporarily imposes silence upon the other affections.

  55. Instead of the full, pulpy feeling of youth, everything is flat and insipid.

  56. At least the precedence, in order of birth, of one feeling to the other, is unquestionable.

  57. Here then was a fresh proof that I had been right in relying on my own feeling in opposition to my understanding; and again I set myself to study the problem: at length I solved it to my own satisfaction; and my solution is this.

  58. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything.

  59. Could anyone write with this enthusiasm and poetic feeling about Derby Brights and Silkstone--even the best Silkstone and the best Derby Brights?

  60. If all this mass of feeling and imagination could be crowded into a moment's compass, what might not the whole of life be supposed to contain?

  61. There is a feeling in the air, a tone in the colour of a cloud which hits your fancy, but the effect of which you are unable to account for.

  62. A barrister of feeling hates to be seen in his robes save when actually engaged in a case.

  63. The internal arrangements at Plowden Hall, Shropshire, give one a good idea of the feeling of insecurity that must have been so prevalent in those "good old days.

  64. If, at any time, such a feeling tried to take possession of their hearts, it was indignantly suppressed.

  65. They had swallowed the bait, gorged it in fact; but Bob knew that he must try to prevent their feeling the hook until he was ready to strike.

  66. From that time on a feeling of uneasiness rested over the little settlement.

  67. Bob was himself feeling much better since allowed to leave that hard perch in the thickest part of the giant oak.

  68. They had purposely given their companions the most desirable locations, feeling certain that in good season they would be able to accomplish all they wished, for Sandy had ever been a lucky hunter.

  69. Is it a very large place; are the Senecas feeling bitter against the white settlers; and what do they do when not on the warpath?

  70. As we know, he entertained a feeling bordering on worship for the gallant young woodsman, Simon Kenton, who in his opinion was a greater hero than Colonel Boone himself.

  71. When the new settlement was in its infancy the Armstrong boys, feeling that conditions had changed, began to alter their dress.

  72. Sandy, as though feeling hurt, because at that short distance he knew one shot would have surely finished the "woods terror," as such beasts were known at the time.

  73. This inaction does not keep one from feeling hungry, it seems.

  74. The ready knife of the stalwart young Shawanee had struck in too deeply, and already was the panther feeling the throes of approaching death.

  75. I'm feeling like I was in a dream, and just can't for the life of me understand what could happen out here so far away from everywhere.

  76. Kenton had seen it in Sandy, and it aroused a fellow-feeling in the breast of the famous borderer for the young pioneer, because he himself had many times been taken to task by Daniel Boone for showing the same weakness.

  77. I thank you, and congratulate you from the bottom of my heart, for the part each one of you has taken in giving me this feeling of pride.

  78. Nor had he escaped deep feeling when he saw the Canadian troops marching to the trenches.

  79. I concluded my business as soon as possible and hurried home, feeling an unpleasant premonition that everything was not all right with the mother and the child.

  80. The trial had not progressed more than a few weeks before we were able to turn the tide of feeling and sentiment in our favor, or rather in favor of our client, and the case, instead of being a prosecution of John L.

  81. Under the peculiar provisions of our statute, counter affidavits were permitted for the purpose of showing that there was no feeling in the community that would prevent Howard from receiving a fair trial.

  82. I returned home feeling very anxious for the old man, but still satisfied in my own mind that I had not heard the entire truth.

  83. Yet Rousseau, after all, deserves his preëminent position as the arch-sentimentalist by the very audacity of his revolt in the name of feeling from both humility and decorum.

  84. Feeling is all; Name is but sound and smoke Shrouding the glow of heaven.

  85. Feeling alone they held was vital and immediate.

  86. But as a rule he disdained the facile lachrymosity of the man of feeling as still too imitative and conventional.

  87. The primitivist then attacks sober discrimination as an obstacle both to warm immediacy of feeling and to unity.

  88. To rest beauty upon feeling as the very name æsthetics implies, is to rest it upon what is ever shifting.

  89. The attempt of the rationalist to lock up life in some set of formulæ produces in the imaginative man a feeling of oppression.

  90. Schiller in his “Æsthetic Letters” relaxed the rationalistic rigor of Kant in favor of feeling and associated even more emphatically the ideality and creativeness of art with its free imaginative play, its emancipation from specific aim.

  91. His message is summed up once for all in the exclamation of Faust, “Feeling is all.

  92. I liked the social life of the American middle classes, because it is based, for the most part, on honesty, a kindly feeling toward mankind, and healthiness of mind and body.

  93. On the left was a blurred edge of pines, with tops like ungainly tendrils feeling for the sky.

  94. As I went up, feeling for my knives and my gun, the dogs began to snarl with anger, and for one little step I shivered, for the thing seem not natural.

  95. Such exhibitions of feeling generally have an unusual personal interest to give them point and meaning.

  96. There is, besides, a feeling among those that have reached the age of manhood, especially if they are holding some Government office, that their dignity would be lowered if they were seen engaged at play.

  97. There is considerable dislike among the Greeks to let their daughters go out to service, but this feeling is not shared by the inhabitants of the Greek islands.

  98. The Greek population of Macedonia is not large, but is inimical to the Bulgarian, both from feeling of racial antipathy and from religious discord.

  99. It was then, dearest Julia, that I ventured to express the feeling with which you had inspired me.

  100. Questioned in such a spot, and at such an hour, he could not repress the feeling of terror conjured up by the allusion.

  101. Curiosity was a feeling dead within his bosom, and he was preparing, without once staying his course, to ascend the ridge at the side of the temple, when he fancied he heard a suppressed groan, as of one suffering from intense agony.

  102. A feeling of deep gratification pervaded the benevolent countenance of Mrs. D'Egville, as, on perusal, she found that it contained the offer of an asylum for herself and daughters in case Amherstburgh should be carried by storm.

  103. In this feeling he was confirmed by the annoyance he felt at having been visited by the anger of the brother to whom he was so attached.

  104. But a deep down shudder, a cold feeling and a fiery flame went through my legs.

  105. My soul was trapped and earthbound and yet hovered high up over things of earth and there was in me a feeling of a splendid pardon I was torn away from.

  106. In this position during vocal utterance you can feel these actions, and, feeling them, "measure" them.

  107. The director of the Choral Opera told me at the outset that it was better to act by feeling when singing than by instruction.

  108. But one cannot learn to think or to feel, and without thinking and feeling there is no acting.

  109. The people of the stage and the people in "the front of the house" have little in common, that little being chiefly a mutual feeling of contempt for each other.

  110. The feeling with which you would watch that string as it stretched to the breaking point would be akin to the feeling with which the dramatist watches the audience come to pass judgment on his work.

  111. My acquaintance with him dates from the performance of my first original comedy, 'The Little Gray Lady', and is due to a friendly feeling for the new-comers in his profession that is one of his finest traits.

  112. The Man" at the Third Avenue probably wears whatever is cheapest, and I can't fancy the woman feeling a keen interest in oyster pan toast or orange mousse.

  113. In acting, more than in any other art, the feeling of the artist reaches through his work.

  114. Race hatred and political prejudice are as nothing in comparison with the feeling between the business man of the theater and the player.

  115. Perhaps in the whole room there was no one who had more cause for a sudden reaction of feeling than Jack Amidon, whose quick eye took in even at the length of the hall that Sylvia was at last wearing somebody's flowers.

  116. But I don't feel any different from what I did before, except for the comfortable settled feeling I have already mentioned.

  117. Feeling scarcely worthy to dwell in the sanctuary of her own grief, Sylvia's heart went out to the older woman in her silent agony.

  118. So far from feeling lordly in your presence you usually make me feel infernally infinitesimal, not to say atomic.

  119. Felicia smiled as she made the statement but there was genuine feeling behind it.

  120. For the moment Barbara's only feeling was a quick compunction lest they had interrupted something which they had no right to share.

  121. Do you know I have been having a feeling for a long time that you and Sylvia were beginning to care for each other?


  122. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feeling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affect; affection; aim; air; analytic; analytical; anticipation; appreciation; assumption; atmosphere; attitude; aura; awareness; belief; benevolence; breath; brush; caress; caressing; clairvoyant; clemency; climate; compassion; conceit; concept; conception; conclusion; condolence; consciousness; consideration; contact; conviction; delicacy; demonstrative; emotion; emotional; emotive; estimate; estimation; ethos; examining; experience; exploratory; expression; eye; favor; feel; feeling; finesse; fingering; fire; flavor; flick; forbearance; foreboding; forgiveness; friction; glance; glandular; grace; graze; grip; groping; guess; gut; handling; heuristic; humanity; hunch; hunting; idea; ideal; impression; inspiration; instinct; intimation; intuition; intuitive; investigative; judgment; judiciousness; kindness; kiss; lap; leniency; lick; lights; manipulation; mercy; milieu; mind; mitigation; mood; motive; mystique; nicety; note; notion; observation; offset; opinion; overtone; palate; pardon; passion; pathos; perception; persuasion; petting; philosophy; position; posture; premonition; presentiment; pressure; presumption; process; psychology; quality; quarter; reaction; refinement; regard; relief; reprieve; response; rub; rubbing; semblance; sensation; sense; sensibility; sensible; sensitive; sensitivity; sentient; sentiment; sight; sniff; soul; soulful; spirit; stance; stand; stroke; subtlety; surmise; suspicion; sympathy; tact; tap; taste; tender; tentative; testing; theory; thing; thinking; thought; tone; touch; touching; trying; undercurrent; undertone; vein; view; visceral; whisper


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feeling like; feeling quite; feeling rather; feeling sure; feeling that; feeling very; feelings towards; feelings were