1082 adjectives to describe sense

"Lord," they answer, "when saw we Thee?" It is a revelation to them, in the strictest and deepest sense of the word.

She is wise beyond her years, with a sense of honor as keen as your own.

For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of lofty ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over trivial differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the exercise of a little common sense.

We always find that the strangest objects in these fountain wilds are in some degree familiar, and we look upon them with a vague sense of having seen them before.

That he needs this extension of experience can be seen in his growing demands for true stories, true in the more literal sense which he is coming fast to appreciate; undoubtedly most children pass through a stage of extreme literalism between early childhood and what is generally recognised as boyhood and girlhood.

These boatmen were all jolly, good-natured and pleasant people, with a vast deal of practical sense, and a valuable experience in woodcraft, albeit they were rough and unpolished.

Some of the Pietist hymns, as we know, are very beautiful; but there are things in them which one wishes left out; which seem, or ought to seem, irreverent when used toward God; which hurt, or ought to hurt, our plain, cool, honest English common-sense.

The book is no record of games and players, but it is historical in a broader sense, and the author is able to give his personal decisive testimony about many disputed points.

At last Miss Abigail spoke with so unaccustomed a sharpness that her voice seemed not her own: "Sech a foolish question as that nobody in their sound senses would ask.

Colonel!" He stood in the silence, shivering with a sudden sense of desolation.

But when we had unfolded our sentiments, and William Seebohm had read a passage from Tuke's "Principles," the pastor, seeing that we aimed only at the spiritual sense, acknowledged that he had often queried with himself whether the usage could not properly be dispensed with, and said that he intended still further to examine the question.

"I was a child and I hadn't any better sense, and I married you, and you've been living off my money ever since!

John's eyes wandered round the room and then rested again with a curious sense of pleasure upon Miss Diana's face.

in its narrow sense? <Severe>.

His contemporary, Erasmus Darwin, author of The Botanic Garden, was trying to give sentimentalism a novel interpretation by describing the life of plants in terms of human life; but, Darwin being destitute of artistic sense, the result was grotesque.

In her was developed to its finest point that sixth sense of the animal kingdom, the sense of orientation, and as straight as a pigeon might have winged its flight she cut through the bush to the spot where they had cached the rabbit.

By a sort of magnetic persuasion and lively sense of humor they soothe this one and that, win the regard of the outlying community, attach many new members to the organization, and build up, out of discordant and erstwhile discontented elements, a harmonious and active church.

I had come to within a few paces of it, when, suddenly, a peculiar sense of fear thrilled through mea fear, palpitant and real; whence, I knew not, nor why.

He was intensely religious, with a profound sense of the supernatural; he certainly was a great example to very busy men in the way he always managed to find time for church, and even when called away to a distance he would, if possible, go to a church near where he happened to be."

What the astral senses are.

On this hypothesis, a piece of beef, or a handful of hay, is dead only in a limited sense.

If, however, these bodily senses are neither accurate nor clear, much less can the others be so: for they are all far inferior to these.

Inner is somewhat within, or more within than something else is; it is also used in figurative and spiritual senses.

These soft and soothing images of the passage which all men dread had been talked over with low voices, yet with smiles and a grateful sense that "the warm precincts of the cheerful day" were once more familiar to both.

" "Accursed be the tongue which tells me so," said the trembling Macbeth, who felt his last hold of confidence give way; "and let never man in future believe the lying equivocations of witches and juggling spirits, who deceive us in words which have double senses, and while they keep their promise literally, disappoint our hopes with a different meaning.

1082 adjectives to describe  sense