376 Verbs to Use for the Word emotions

I then began to explain them; and when I spoke of our manner of worship, belief, &c., and of some of our peculiar tenets respecting Baptism, the Supper, &c., it is not possible to express their emotion; their eyes turned first towards one and then towards another, and seemed to sparkle with joy, without their uttering a word till I had done.

Sauvallier felt a strange emotion, in which anguish mingled with joy.

His eyes were dark, and he betrayed scarcely any emotion at the sight of his father in this lamentable plight.

The style of announcement caused some confusion at first, to the Briton, who, however, hastened to conceal his emotion under an air of good-will and joyousness, to impose upon his comrades.

When the coast of my own beloved country first presented itself to my view, I experienced the liveliest emotions; and I felt so anxious to see my children and friends, that I would gladly have given up all the promised pleasures of our expedition.

and you will see that the art of acting is to suppress emotions.

Eating a Christmas Pie: He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a brave boy am I." In Canto I, I have shown the varied emotions which seized the tender soul of Old Mother HUBBARD'S Dog.

He was hideously calmthe frightful calm of great-hearted men, who use mirth, levity, and indolency to hide emotion.

I could not control my emotion if I let my imagination stray too far.

His Majesty was absorbed in the deepest melancholy; nothing could excite an emotion in him; he lived in a state of total oblivion of life; he sat in a darkened chamber, entirely given up to the most distressing kind of madness.

And all welcomed the order to fall in preparatory to moving off in the darkness and mist to a battle which, perhaps more than any other in this war, stirred the emotions of countless millions in the Old and New Worlds.

But to herWho shall describe the subtle emotion which thrills through a girl's heart when she hears, for the first time from a strange man's lips, the name whose use hitherto has been reserved for her kith and kin?

He is like a tourist in a new strange country, fresh and eager, and with a similar holiday spirit of adventure: the stimulation of the new arouses a desire to interpret, to investigate and to ask questions: it arouses strong emotions to like or dislike, to fear, to be curious; it leads to certain modes of conduct, as a result of these emotions.

" Orme turned away for a moment to master his emotion.

"' This little incident produced such strong emotions in Lucy's frame, that though she felt, upon the whole, much gratified by merely hearing about Luke's regiment and its horses, yet she became too ill to proceed with her work, and found it necessary to return to the cottage.

He repressed with an effort the emotion which threatened to master him, and forced himself to be calm.

The words seemed to roll from his lips without the slightest effort, and apparently without causing his heart one emotion.

answered Jacopo, who had manifested no emotion during the abortive attempt of the other to retire.

She had never seen such emotion in any man's face, and if it was for another, how could she guess it?

Great moments, whether of pain, surprise, or terror, awaken in the startled breast very different emotions from those we are led to anticipate from the agitation caused by lesser experiences.

It rouses the moral emotions and affections, and gives scope for contrition, adoration, and thanksgiving,the Trisagion of the heart.

"I trust," said Miss Crewys, "that we are not a family prone to display weak emotion even on the most trying occasions.

He exhibited no emotion whatever, but shrugging his shoulders after the manner of a Frenchman who differed from you in opinion, said, "Well, if I am hanged, I must be hanged, that is all.

More agitated than I should have expected from one under ordinary circumstances so calm and self-possessed, he entered my room with a face whose paleness and compressed lips indicated intense emotion; and, laying his hand on my shoulder, expressed his feeling rather in look and tone than in his few broken and not very significant words.

Tom Poole, the lank marshal, loafed as usual about the Elite Amusement Parlor, over which hung a sullen quiet reflecting the morbid emotions of Mike Sabota, its brutish-built proprietor, resulting from his heavy losses on Thunderbolt in the two-mile sweepstakes when the Gold Dust maverick, ridden by the drug-crazed Ramblin' Kid, darted under the wire lengths ahead of the black Vermejo stallion.

376 Verbs to Use for the Word  emotions