Immense and incessant was this sensation of her powers draining off.

As shot after shot passed in quick succession, the sounds fell chiefly on the ears of those among the crowdand they were the fewer numberwho had hearts within them, and to British feeling each reverberation brought a mingled sensation.

Ben's first sensation was one of icy terror that crept to the very marrow of his bones.

Part of the impulse behind it was simply terror; but it was also the expression of an intensity of sensation never before experienced.

Imagine a sensation in the great toe, as if it had been suddenly seized with a pair of red-hot pincers.

the wife and children, the mother and sisters, or the aged father, if presentable, would be introduced in open court to create a sensation at the right moment.

In his view, there is nothing admirable beyond this pleasureno sensation or emotion of the mind, no soundness or health of body.

I drew his portrait, I made a few studies of sea and sky, but for the most part the sensation of simple existence under the conditions of illimitable freedom in space, with no reminder of anything beyond, was sufficient for me.

The Princess was to have been the social sensation of Paris this year.

What a sensation (at any other period how much greater would it have been!)

Wordsworth discarded, in theory, the poetic diction of his predecessors, and professed to use "a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation."

He was never again to pass a public school save with a sensation of shuddering relief.

He still sat there wondering, thinking that he would let the corridors clear a little before he went out again, and asking himself what it was that had caused that obvious sensation during the judge's last words.

And yet the sensation had been overwhelming. . . .

He remained motionless, conscious of that sensation of intense tightness of nerve and sinew in which an overpressed mind expresses itself.

And you must know it too!" All sensation seemed to have ebbed from the man who listened. . . .

He made one last effort; the vision passed and he stood up, feeling once more sensation come back, understanding that he had saved himself from an extinction more utter than that of death.

Not an agreeable sensation, though!

Some sensation, unknown before, had come, strong, sweetand evil; the mysterious guest had made its way to the innermost shrine, and taken possession and lain down in it in silence, but, in all its magnitude, like the owner in a new house.

Yet I could not get rid of the sensation that to desert her would be cowardice and meanness.

The day following Kromitzki's arrival I had a strange sensation.

She prays to be resigned, and records "a sweet, placid sensation like those that I remember used to visit me when I was a little child, and on Sunday evenings in summer stood by the window reading the life of a certain French nobleman who attained a purer and higher degree of sanctity than has been known since the days of the Early Martyrs.

But in the indescribable sensation of that moment I felt that here was a woman who bore a secret burden, although, as my informing host put it, her heart had romantically found its haven only two weeks ago.

To this end he employs marble, stone, wood, bronze or gold, and the result is that element of the symphony which responds to sensation.

The wreck of a steamer, and loss of most of those on board, had not long before caused a great sensation, and forcibly attracted attention to the dangers of the southern entrance.