134 Metaphors for feelings

Fitzgerald's first feeling was joy; for he was glad to be relieved from the picture of Rosa's horror and despair, which had oppressed him like the nightmare.

The feeling abiding with him then must have been happiness, because he was not used to it.

Before the passage of the Stamp Act the feeling of the colonists toward Britain had been "the best in the world."

This feeling ultimately became a kind of mania with him.

And my feelings are tender to-daymost awful tender, Luke.

I would observe that a lady who cherishes, I have reason to fear, unfriendly feelings against your uncle is not the most desirable companion for his ward.

For here we have a language which nature has given to every one, and which every one understands; and to do away with and forbid it for no better reason than that it is opposed to that much-lauded thing, gentlemanly feeling, is a very questionable proceeding.

Ill-feeling toward someone is a cousin to hatred.

His feeling was an added burden, and she felt that she had enough to carry.

My course of study had led me to believe, that all mental and moral feelings and qualities, whether of a good or of a bad kind, were the results of association; that we love one thing, and hate another, take pleasure in one sort of action or contemplation, and pain in another sort, through the clinging of pleasurable or painful ideas to those things, from the effect of education or of experience.

Common sense would say that the longer it took to make, the less wonder there was in its being made at last: but the instinctive human feeling is the opposite.

English poetic feeling, combined with as much of French technique as it could assimilatethere was the line of progress.

The feeling of a FATHER to his child, again, you find is fainter still among beasts.

A real feeling for religion is seldom the fruit of such instruction; the children, as a rule, are glad after their Confirmation to have done with this unspiritual religious teaching, and so they remain, when their schooling is over, permanently strangers to the religious inner life, which the instruction never awakened in them.

The natural feeling between men is mere indifference, but between women it is actual enmity.

Many facts combine to obscure this truth, but however much it may be obscured, public feeling remains the primal source of authority.

A growing feeling of pleasure is the sign which notifies us that we are growing interested in a subject.

The incident in itself has no importance, but the singular feeling under which I made the passage of a trackless mountain, in complete darkness for the most difficult part of the way, in perfect confidence in a mysterious guidance which justified that confidence, was a mental phenomenon worthy of note, the more that it was in keeping with the invariable feeling which had grown up in me from the cogitations of years.

Their feeling for him was fanaticism, and its strength was religion, and never did Mahomet nerve the arms of his believers and strengthen them against pain and death more absolutely than this little grey-coated idol did to those who worshipped him.

CHAPTER XXI SONIA'S SUDDEN VISIT One's feelings are queer things.

Not that the people were obliged to be on time for early trains, for they are mostly the reapers of other people's sowing; but to men of a certain calibre, born for activity, the feeling that, simply for the pleasure of it, they can wait until the very latest moment and still get there, is an amusement savouring of both chance and power.

"It was a test more subtle than you know, perhaps, Mr. Spinrobin," he was saying, "and the feelings it has roused in you are an adequate proof that you have come well through it.

But now that my feelings on so many important subjects have been changednow that the blinding film has been mercifully removed from my eyes, and I see the whole extent of my sinful folly, I cannot hope to find the same friend in you.

To the physiologist and the psychologist, the feeling of insufficiency is the disease, no matter how spectacular the overlaying phenomenaa cripple on crutches or a man blind and speechless.

I was very anxious to win, and inclined to think that I had won, but my chief feeling was an intense conviction that this could not be accepted as even a decently satisfactory method of creating a government for a city of five million inhabitants, and that nothing short of a conscious and resolute facing of the whole problem of the formation of political opinion would enable us to improve it.

134 Metaphors for  feelings