Use conscious in a sentence
Sentences starting with conscious
- Conscious that de Mauprat and Delagarde were watching him, he appeared to listen with a keen but impersonal interest, not without its effect upon his scrutinisers. [11]
- Conscious of the amazement of all present, he held out his hand to David. [11]
Sentences ending with conscious
- The members of what had once been an army--Napoleon himself and all his soldiers fled--without knowing whither, each concerned only to make his escape as quickly as possible from this position, of the hopelessness of which they were all more or less vaguely conscious. [2]
- Could it be that she had discerned and interpreted those renascent feelings even then stirring within me, and of which I myself was as yet scarcely conscious? [9]
- It had meaning only as part of a whole of which he was always conscious. [2]
- Of that tragedy of the world's sin and sorrow they would ever be conscious. [9]
- On his last day, sobbing, he asked her and his absent son to forgive him for having dissipated their property--that being the chief fault of which he was conscious. [2]
Sentences containing conscious two or more times
- A man is only conscious of himself as a living being by the fact that he wills, that is, is conscious of his volition. [2]
- He was conscious of but one outward thing, to wit, the General, and he was really not vividly conscious of him. [5]
- Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole. [2]
- He was vaguely conscious of the great change in him, and Barry Whalen, who, with all his faults, would have gone to the gallows for him, was ever vividly conscious of it, and helplessly resented the change. [11]
More example sentences with the word conscious in them
- Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
- I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
- The great merchant would do everything for his fame-crowned nephew, and he, Hermon, was conscious that had his uncle been in his situation he would have divided his last obol with him. [10]
- His face beamed with pleasure, and there was so much open admiration in his eyes that Margaret, conscious of it to her heart's core, feared that her aunt would notice it. [4]
- I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us from this heavy reproach in any practicable way. [7]
- The doors and windows were sealed tight, and there was nothing to be seen; yet she was more than ever conscious of a presence grown more manifest. [11]
- To all of which Polly Ann listened with conscious pride, and replied with sallies. [9]
- Some faculty of which I had never before been conscious had awakened in me, and I needed no interpreter to explain the unspoken language of my celestial attendant. [6]
- It is only when the second midnight comes that, with conscious, but pensive and far-off, eyes, he says to her: "Angelique, my wife. [11]
- Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
- And besides, with what deep loathing she herself had gone to the hospital at first, and how fully conscious of her own infinite superiority she had returned from amongst these depraved beings to the outdoor air. [10]
- All the rest were ciphers; all had lost, momentarily, their feelings of partisanship and were conscious only of these two intense, radiating, opposing centres of force; and no man, oddly enough, could say which was the stronger. [9]
- But his perceptions were as keen as Nelson Langmaid's, and like Langmaid, he had gradually become conscious of a certain baffling personality in the new rector of St. John's. [9]
- The warm life went out of her, and she was to herself as a dimly conscious shadow that glided with passive acquiescence wherever it was led. [6]
- She fought the weakness, as she fought to be above suspicious thoughts, and it passed, leaving her conscious of her utter impotence. [13]
- It is that we have a conscious, or lower, human self, and a subconscious, or better self. [9]
- As he stood watching, he was conscious of people approaching. [11]
- His glorious figure was set off to advantage by his rich dress, his features were bright with happiness and a feeling of conscious strength. [10]
- He, at least, was not appalled, but grimly conscious of the greatness of the task to which they had set their hands. [9]
- This continued patronage was not a conscious expression of superiority on my part, but he did not seem to resent it. [9]
- At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
- How long I was gazing at the shifting coast I know not, for a strange wildness was within me that made me forget all else, until suddenly I became conscious of a presence at my side, and turned to behold the captain. [9]
- Mrs. Crozier, however, was fully conscious of the poignancy of the remark, and once again her face flushed slightly, though she kept outward composure. [11]
- He heard nothing, was conscious of nothing, save his own grim, fantastic imaginings. [11]
- And then he was conscious of a palpitating joy which left in its wake a profound thankfulness. [9]
- Once more I was acutely conscious of my inability to feel deeply at supreme moments. [9]
- What he was vividly conscious of was being followed, enveloped, by a woman's love. [4]
- At St. Petersburg, Vienna, and elsewhere he had been vaguely conscious of these social changes; but they did not come within the ambit of his daily life, and so it had not mattered. [11]
- This is a very convenient infirmity for gentlemen who indulge in slightly aggressive remarks, but when they are hit back never seem to be conscious at all of the _riposte_,--the return thrust of the fencer. [6]
- I was only vaguely conscious of her presence, for during my severe struggle I could see nothing but my adversary. [10]
- To some of us at Brandon, Margaret's letter was scarcely a surprise, though it emphasized a divergence we had been conscious of. [4]
- As he came upon the great house, however, in the soft light of evening, he was conscious of no violence done to his artistic sense. [11]
- These reflections weighed upon her, particularly when she seemed conscious of curious glances. [9]
- In giving himself up to a biography in which he had no special interest, Warner felt conscious that he could not interest others. [4]
- There is nothing unusual in the fellow's dress; he wears a shiny silk hat, and has one of those grave faces which would be merry if their owner were not conscious of serious business on hand. [4]
- We will wait until wrong has been done us, and then go to victory or death, conscious that we have right on our side. [10]
- Realising that the trap-door must be open, he listened for a second and was instantly conscious of some one in the room. [11]
- He was conscious, too, that Jasmine realized the antipathy. [11]
- As he began to wash the blood stains from her breast and carefully rebandage the wound, he was vaguely conscious of a strange, grave happiness in the thought that she might live. [13]
- This paragraph seemed to stand out in the paper as an almost immodest exposure of family life, read furtively at first, and not talked of, and yet every member of the family was conscious of an increase in the family importance. [4]
- It was delicious to see a newspaper again, yet I was conscious of a secret shock when my eye fell upon the first batch of display head-lines. [5]
- It was hard to breathe in the dense smoke, and fiery sparks scorched my shawl and my hair, but I was conscious of one thought: You must save the helpless little creature's mother! [10]
- It was not till Hermas returned from the oasis that Stephanus thought of his exhausted and fainting friend, and with his son's assistance restored him to conscious ness. [10]
- Pierre, who had thus spent his first sane and conscious hour in many days, fell asleep. [11]
- As David walked through the streets of Heddington making for the open country, he was conscious of a new feeling regarding the place. [11]
- A tremor ran through her, she became conscious of his presence near her, and turned, as though he were behind her. [11]
- He had never thought it out, though he was dimly conscious of some great loss--of the light gone from the evening sky. [11]
- Yet, along with this, one is ever conscious of pressure. [9]
- But even in this suggestion she was conscious of a twinge of disloyalty to her former self. [4]
- There were many things I wished to turn over in my mind just then, but I had not long been in a state of reverie when I became conscious that Miss Thorn was standing beside me. [9]
- Just as before, they never mentioned him so as not to lower (as they thought) their exalted feelings by words; but this silence about him had the effect of making them gradually begin to forget him without being conscious of it. [2]
- You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks--in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. [5]
- In putting forward these tributes of admiration and affection, as well as in his constant allusion to the ill requital of his services, we see a man fighting for his reputation, and conscious of the necessity of doing so. [4]
- I only knew there was something about it that won the heart, as a too conscious or assertive beauty never does. [4]
- As he stood there under the winter moon, he gradually became conscious of music, of an air that seemed the very expression of his mood. [9]
- The eyes of the two met now, fairly, firmly; and Guida was conscious of a look in the other's face which she had never seen before. [11]
- The life of the soul, in conscious union with the Infinite, shall be for thee the only real existence. [6]
- Snatched away from the present, yet conscious that Fate had granted him a great boon in this sorrowful hour, he moved on at her side and led her through the main entrance, the spacious inner court-yard of the palace. [10]
- But even in the midst of these surges of passion I was conscious of the birth of a new force I did not understand, and which I resented, that had arisen to give battle to my passions and desires. [9]
- He glanced at the menu as if idly interested, conscious that he was under observation. [11]
- Mr. Thomas was the least excited of the group as he took his position on the sidewalk, conscious of the dignity of the occasion and that he was about to begin a duel in which both reputation and profit were concerned. [4]
- In spite of the intensity of his own anguish, Hodder was conscious of a curious detachment; and for months afterward particular smells, the sight of a gasoline stove, a certain popular tune gave him a sharp twinge of pain. [9]
- Myrtle was conscious, the instant she looked upon Clement Lindsay, of the existence of some peculiar relation between them; but what, she could not tell. [6]
- As he left the hut he was conscious that some one was moving under the trees by the window, but his mind was not concerned with things outside himself and the one other thing left for him to do. [11]
- I walked past the house, and took several turns in the street, with that kind of hesitation which is natural to a man who is conscious that the visit he is about to pay is unexpected, and may not be very acceptable. [12]
- She guilelessly reasserted the heavenly origin of her mission, and did it with the untroubled mien of one who was not conscious that she had ever knowingly repudiated it. [5]
- The khaki of the former was shot through in several places, he had been slashed in the cheek by a bullet, and a bullet had also passed through the muscle of his left forearm; but he was scarcely conscious of it. [11]
- Stolphe had heard the door of the bedroom forced, but Jean Jacques had not heard it; he was only conscious of hands dragging him back just at the moment of Stolphe's deadly peril. [11]
- Crozier advanced to the centre of the room, even to the table laid for dinner, before he was conscious of some one in the room, of a figure by the chair. [11]
- When at length the Captain has marched out, with a conscious but manly air, Mr. Hopper turns to Ford-- "Don't lose no time in presenting them vouchers at headquarters," says he. [9]
- By and by the bundle of life stirred, took shape, raised itself, and was changed into a man again, a thinking, conscious being, who now understood the meaning of this sound coming up from the earth below--or was it the sea? [11]
- The scheme of the assault may have been: First--To terrify me by making me conscious of my own helplessness after making actual though not legal threats against my life. [5]
- She was conscious that the servant was entering the room with a letter. [11]
- Lygon was conscious that the fifty dollars sent him every New Year for five years by Dupont had been sent with a purpose, and that he was now Dupont's tool. [11]
- He was conscious that the Comtesse Chantavoine had given a little start, and then had become quite still and calm. [11]
- Or was it that sleep of the worn-out spirit which, tortured by remembrance and remorse, at last sinks into the depths where the conscious vexes the unconscious --a little of fire, a little of ice, and now and then the turn of the screw? [11]
- She was conscious that on the other side of Rudyard was a tall figure that staggered and swayed as it moved on, and that two dark eyes were turned towards her ever and anon. [11]
- She was conscious that new senses and instincts were born in her, or were now first awakened to life. [11]
- I was conscious that my client was fumbling in his clothes for the wallet; that he had muttered an invitation for the chief to go inside. [9]
- He seemed at that moment removed, set apart, consecrated--this was the word that came to her, and yet she was keenly conscious of his presence. [9]
- He was conscious that here he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, obedient, and insignificant atom. [2]
- I was recalling that first day that I remember in my life, when at Balmore my grandfather made prophecies upon me, and for the first time I was conscious of the world. [11]
- It is true that everything in his intimacy with Susan Posey, so far, might come under the general head of friendship; but he was conscious that something more was in both their thoughts. [6]
- It was fortunate that Crozier was scarcely conscious of what she was saying. [11]
- His was a thankful nature, and yet he was conscious that he might have been destined to something greater than fate had permitted him to achieve or to be. [10]
- Not that I surrendered at once, but the reservations of which I was conscious at the first gradually disappeared--or rather I ignored them. [9]
- As Leicester stepped suddenly into Angele's gaze, she was only, as it were, conscious of a presence in itself alluring by virtue of the history surrounding it. [11]
- The past--he was suddenly conscious that Byng had changed within the past few days, and that he seemed to have put restraint on himself. [11]
- Fascination and fear struggled within her as she had listened to his onslaughts, and she was conscious of being moved by what he was, not by what he said. [9]
- I loved them still, and yet I was conscious of reservations concerning them. [9]
- Her hand was still conscious of his burning kiss as she entered the cool room where the Lady Neforis sat awaiting the return of the party, turning her spinning-wheel by the couch of her invalid husband who always went to rest at late hours. [10]
- But, as the spring came home, he became suddenly conscious of a presence in the room. [11]
- He suddenly felt sorry for her and was vaguely conscious that he might be the cause of the sadness her face expressed. [2]
- Captain Van Duivenvoorde soothingly interposed, when Van der Laen, who was conscious of never deviating far from the truth, angrily repelled the old man's jesting insinuations. [10]
- But his strength soon began to fail him, and looking about him, conscious of having said much that was amiss, he again got into his caleche and drove back in silence. [2]
- Yet it was something that he could feast his eyes on her and was rewarded by a look now and then that told him she was conscious of his presence. [4]
- As he did so, he was conscious of another wagon and horses a few yards away. [11]
- As he did so, he was conscious of a curious coldness, even of dampness, in the hand which had shaken that of Mallow. [11]
- As she did so she was sharply conscious of the contrast between her visitor and Ian Stafford in outward appearance. [11]
- He drank very slowly, was indeed only mechanically conscious that he was drinking, for his mind was far away. [11]
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