Use consciousness in a sentence
Sentences starting with consciousness
- Consciousness of death was there, a blended terror and pain, but no consciousness of sight. [13]
- Consciousness of unquestioned position makes people gracious in proper measure to all; but if a woman puts on airs with her real equals, she has something about herself or her family she is ashamed of, or ought to be. [6]
- Consciousness came at last with half delirium, half understanding; as emerging from the passing sleep of anaesthetics, the eye sees things and dimly registers them, before the brain has set them in any relation to life or comprehension. [11]
- Consciousness of power and the fierce joy of battle sparkled in his eyes. [10]
Sentences ending with consciousness
- There, if anywhere you will forget your private and short-lived woe, for my voice speaks to the infinite and the eternal in your consciousness. [6]
- Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
- Some swooned and would have drowned had they not been dragged across the canoe and chafed back to consciousness. [9]
- For hours they worked with snow upon the frozen limbs to bring back life and consciousness. [11]
- Jen started forward, woman-like, to check the action, but drew back, for she saw heroic measures might be necessary to bring him to consciousness. [11]
- The companion mansions were closed, their blinds tightly drawn; the neighbourhood was as quiet as the country, save for a slight but persistent noise that impressed itself on my consciousness. [9]
- When we spoke, we almost invariably addressed him, his rare words fell like bolts upon the consciousness. [9]
- Besides, Dick had two sides in his nature, almost as distinct as we sometimes observe in those persons who are the subjects of the condition known as double consciousness. [6]
- It is hard to believe that it has died out of human consciousness. [6]
- For six days the tailor-shop and the life at Chaudiere had been things almost apart from his consciousness. [11]
Short sentences using consciousness
- What did my consciousness reply? [5]
- He roused to consciousness again. [11]
- He lost breath and consciousness. [10]
Sentences containing consciousness two or more times
- There the whole family lives in the kitchen, and has its consciousness of being; but the flat abolishes the family consciousness. [8]
- This unshakable, irrefutable consciousness of freedom, uncontrolled by experiment or argument, recognized by all thinkers and felt by everyone without exception, this consciousness without which no conception of man is possible constitutes the other side of the question. [2]
More example sentences with the word consciousness in them
- It had been with a great shout of joy that the consciousness had come to her that she loved and was loved. [4]
- Out into the wild night, the pitchy darkness, the billowy snow, the driving storm, every soul leaped, with the consciousness that a moment lost now might bring destruction to us all. [5]
- Once in a while, even in our Northern cities, at noon, in a very hot summer's day, one may realize, by a sudden extension in his sphere of consciousness, how closely he is shut up for the most part.--Do you not remember something like this? [6]
- And all the while she felt as though light were spreading in her and around her, and the vision she had last seen when she lost consciousness rose again before her inward eye. [10]
- If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [1]
- At such times, when one's consciousness of outer things is dormant, an earthquake might continue for some minutes without one realizing it. [9]
- It is fortunate we have been spared in this country the formation of a political labour party, because such a party would have been composed of manual workers alone, and hence would have tended further to develop economic class consciousness, to crystallize class antagonisms. [9]
- In some such way the grave warnings of Master Byles Gridley had called up a fully shaped, but hitherto unworded, train of thought in the consciousness of Myrtle Hazard. [6]
- In her heart was working the consciousness that she had been singled out as worthy to share the confidence of a man in his most secret ambitions and aspirations, in the dreams of youth which seemed to her so noble. [4]
- The Emperor Charles was sending the old man far away that the happiness of her love might be undisturbed and unclouded, and the consciousness weighed heavily upon her by no means unduly sensitive conscience. [10]
- Later this consciousness was re-awakened; it was then apparent to Gwendolen that she was almost reconciled to them, and it was apparent to Tracy that he wasn't. [5]
- In this vehicle was Porphyrius, who had fully recovered consciousness, and by his side sat Gorgo. [10]
- What troubled him was only the consciousness that he had given her and innocent little Taus every reason to curse their meeting. [10]
- The tides of wakening consciousness roll in upon them daily as we unclose our eyelids, and keep up the gentle movement and murmur of ordinary mental respiration until we close them again in slumber. [6]
- During the long voyage, the strange mystery of the ocean was wrought into her consciousness so deeply, that it seemed to have become a part of her being. [6]
- Where did this virile, blood-full, throbbing Russian literature come from; this Russian painting of Verestchagin, that smites us like a sword with the consciousness of the tremendous meaning of existence? [4]
- In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. [2]
- Though not wholly understood, though opposed by a powerful minority of our citizens, it stirred the consciousness of a national mission to which our people are invariably ready to respond. [9]
- Hence, if our understanding choose the good, consciousness is satisfied. [10]
- It was, however, tried sorely when Fleda came to consciousness again in his arms and realized that a man's face was nearer to hers than any man's had ever been except that of her own father. [11]
- Swinging in this tree-top, with a vivid consciousness of life, of his own capacity for action, it seemed a pity that he could not follow the drum and the flag into such contests as he read about so eagerly. [4]
- He did not treat himself like an earl, whatever consciousness he may have had that his prospective rank made it safe for him to flirt with the various forms of equality abroad in this generation. [4]
- We must be tolerant, for the thought which stammers on a single tongue today may organize itself in the growing consciousness of the time, and come back to us like the voice of the multitudinous waves of the ocean on the morrow. [3]
- He could afford to stand this scrutiny, and he seemed to move about with the consciousness that he knew more about being a horse than his judges. [4]
- And I chanced to remember that the name had first been indelibly impressed on my consciousness at a comfortable breakfast-table at home, where I sat looking out on a bright New England garden. [9]
- When Andreas came to her side and pointed to the centurion, saying that without him he would never have succeeded in saving her beloved, she heard it only as a hollow murmur, without any consciousness of its meaning. [10]
- During all this time I had but one piece of money--a silver ten cent piece--and I held to it and would not spend it on any account, lest the consciousness coming strong upon me that I was entirely penniless, might suggest suicide. [5]
- But after a time consciousness returned; the wounds, though painful, were none of them dangerous, and the most alarming effects of the accident passed away. [6]
- Latterly he never thought of her without thinking of Ruth, and if he gave the subject any attention, it was probably in an undefined consciousness that, he had her sympathy in his love, and that she was always willing to hear him talk about it. [5]
- The consciousness that this would be so and would always be so was and is present in the heart of every Russian. [2]
- And we ask this not for the sake of the moral lesson, but because not to do it is, to our deep consciousness, inartistic and untrue to our judgment of life as it goes on. [4]
- And, in truth, this mighty sovereign, racked by almost unendurable pain, dealt cruelly enough with himself when he compelled his aching knee to bend until consciousness threatened to fail under the excess of agony. [10]
- Just then two things drew the attention of all: the tailor showed returning consciousness, and there was noise of many voices outside the house and the tramping of feet below-stairs. [11]
- Of all consolations these two are the best: The consciousness of wishing the right however much we may err and stumble through human weakness, and prayer. [10]
- I sometimes think their pupils dilate on purpose to let my consciousness glide through them; indeed, I dread them, I come so close to the nerve of the soul itself in these momentary intimacies. [6]
- Victoria sat across the table from Austen, and several times the consciousness of his grave look upon her as she talked heightened the colour in her cheek. [9]
- The incident broke the spell, and brought the family to consciousness. [5]
- If I succeed, the simple consciousness that I have done a good deed will be a sufficient reward. [5]
- Their impulses were the same as of old, but they kept them within bounds by a never-sleeping consciousness that they led, not to joys, but to everlasting punishment. [10]
- Then one of the runaways knocked down Papias, and she could bear no more; her senses deserted her, her knees failed under her, she lost consciousness, and with a dull groan she fell on the dusty pavement. [10]
- Deeper than all the rest was still another feeling, which had hardly risen into the region of inwardly articulated thought, but lay unshaped beneath all the syllabled trains of sleeping or waking consciousness. [6]
- The study of the portraits, with the knowledge of some parts of the history of the persons they represented, and the consciousness of instincts inherited in all probability from these same ancestors, formed the basis of Myrtle's 'Vision. [6]
- Miss Tavish, in the nervous consciousness of fleeting years, was she not still waiting, dashing here and there like a bird in a net for the sort of freedom, audacious as she was, that seemed denied her? [4]
- It is only the name for the incomprehensible cause of certain changes known to our consciousness, and assumed to be outside of it. [3]
- And now to the many things which contributed to increase her hostile mood, was added the disagreeable consciousness that during the last few hours she had treated her contemptibly. [10]
- He remembered how the little noises that made rings of sound in the silence of the woods, like pebbles dropped in still waters, had reached his inner consciousness. [6]
- But to share the inmost consciousness of a noble thinker, to scan one's self in the white light of a pure and radiant soul,--this is indeed the highest form of teaching and discipline. [6]
- Falling backwards when the horse suddenly bolted, his head had struck the medicine-chest, and he had lain insensible till brought back to consciousness by the good offices of the voluble Colonel. [11]
- That reply is the expression of a consciousness that is not subject to reason. [2]
- The effect of the deadly fluid was instantly manifest; but Porphyrius had hardly lost consciousness when Apuleius had rushed to his side. [10]
- And still in the dark hours a stirring, a delicious sensation preceding reason, and the consciousness of a figure stealing about the room. [9]
- If you have the consciousness of genius, do something to show it. [6]
- I awoke with the consciousness of a new joy, suddenly to identify it with Nancy. [9]
- What is sin, the conception of which arises from the consciousness of man's freedom? [2]
- He merely snuggled the closer to his friend, in a luxury of warm contentment, and drifted blissfully out of consciousness into a deep and dreamless sleep that was full of serenity and peace. [5]
- It was like the breaking up of life; he was struggling in the consciousness of coming death: when Ruth stood by his side, clothed in white, with a face like that of an angel, radiant, smiling, pointing to the sky, and saying, "Come. [5]
- Only he had the air of a man who praises his neighbor without stint, with a calm consciousness that he himself is out of reach of comparison in the possessions or qualities which he is admiring in the other. [6]
- I grant you that those who are overworked and underfed, who are burning with the consciousness of wrongs, who have no outlook ahead, are essentially hopeless and miserable. [9]
- And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity. [2]
- She was in that state which is not normal and yet not abnormal--a kind of trance in which she did ordinary things in a natural way, yet mechanically, without full consciousness. [11]
- I am convinced that several of you, especially if you are getting a little on in life, will recognize some of these sentiments as having passed through your consciousness at some time. [6]
- So I suppose that loss of consciousness is not death. [6]
- But the consciousness that her look betrayed this softened her at once towards Mr. Meigs, and decidedly improved his chances for the evening. [4]
- Sir Wendelin felt that he was losing consciousness, he heard faintly a voice from the grotto where the lady was imprisoned calling to him: "The ring, remember the ring! [10]
- The mere consciousness that he desired not only her singing, but her heart, inspired the deepest bliss. [10]
- What was it that brought such multitudes at this time out to the Nekropolis, with their hands full of offerings, but the consciousness of their nearness to the dead, and of being cared for by them so long as they were not forgotten? [10]
- Besides this the terror which he had gone through, as well as the consciousness that he had been guilty of a lie and had daringly deceived his kind master, had upset a soul hitherto untainted by any subterfuge and had thrown him off his balance. [10]
- For action he takes special degrees, capacity, skill, trustworthiness; for perception, consciousness, insight, clearness. [10]
- And Jane Withersteen suddenly suffered a paralyzing affront to her consciousness of reverence by some strange, irresistible twist of thought wherein she saw this Bishop as a man. [13]
- Took into Cynthia's suddenly exalted consciousness and see the picture, actual and potential, unroll itself in all its details of the natural, the ridiculous, the selfish, the pitiful, the human. [6]
- But it opened such depths of solemn thought in her awakened consciousness, that it seemed as if the whole mystery of human life were coming up again before her for trial and judgment. [6]
- After a brief stupor, he awoke to a consciousness of being partly under the table and partly under the grate. [12]
- Is it anything strange that the larger and more powerful organism should diffuse a consciousness of its presence to some distance as well as the slighter and feebler one? [6]
- They are all started under glass, so to speak; that is, sheltered and fostered in our own warm and sunny consciousness. [6]
- Their aspects, their speech and manners had the queer effect of penetrating her consciousness without arousing the emotional judgments of approval or disapproval which normally should have followed. [9]
- Its possession was somewhat soothing, it is true, yet he did not regain the pleasant consciousness of peace in which his soul had rejoiced a few short hours before. [10]
- Stored within her, sometimes rising to the level of consciousness, was that experience at Silliston in the May weather when she had had a glimpse--just a glimpse! [9]
- The effect for some temperaments, for consciousness, for egotism, is admirable; for curiosity, for hero worship, it is rather baffling. [8]
- It is not so much that nebular theory which worries me, when I think about this subject, as a kind of bewilderment when I try to conceive of a consciousness filling all those frightful blanks of space they talk about. [6]
- If a strawberry smothered in cream has any consciousness of its delicious situation, it must feel as I felt at that moment. [4]
- It sank but slowly into her consciousness, and slowly the blood left her face, slowly but surely: left it at length as white as the lace curtain of the window which she clutched in her distress. [9]
- Pale as death, she threw up her arms to protect herself, and then, overcome with terror and fatigue, with a faint cry of anguish she lost consciousness. [10]
- While doing so, she imagined that the gracious intercessor gazed down upon her sometimes compassionately, sometimes reproachfully, and, in the consciousness of her guilt, she raised her hands, imploring forgiveness, to the friendly, familiar figure. [10]
- Thankful and happy, she had found him with fully recovered consciousness, but the physician and the freedman Andreas, whom she met at the door of the chamber, had impressed on her the importance of avoiding all excitement. [10]
- I dare say she had a little flutter of pride in receiving him, in her consciousness of the change in herself into a wider experience of the world. [4]
- As surely as she felt her own innocence she must succeed in proving it, and with this consciousness she cried out to the Queen in a tone of touching entreaty: "O your Majesty, do not leave me without hearing me! [10]
- By degrees, the sense of authority and power to heal passed out from the consciousness of the Church. [5]
- This is the second natural birth;--for I do not speak of those peculiar religious experiences which form the point of transition in many lives between the consciousness of a general relation to the Divine nature and a special personal relation. [6]
- All this Venters saw, but, besides, there was in Bess's eyes a slow-dawning consciousness that seemed about to break out in glorious radiance. [13]
- No prince could revel in the blissful consciousness of increasing power, more fully than he. [10]
- He had been restored to consciousness on the bank and carried to his home, where he lay ill for days. [11]
- On hearing the reply which was readily given, her knees trembled beneath her, and the steward, who saw her totter, supported her and led her into the laboratory, where essences and strong waters soon restored her to consciousness. [10]
- Who does not remember odious images that can never be washed out from the consciousness which they have stained? [6]
- They came out, reluctant, into the dazzle and bustle of the street, with a feeling that they were too good for it, which they confessed to each other with whimsical consciousness. [8]
- When he had regained consciousness, he met Ledscha on board the Hydra, as the wife of the pirate Hanno. [10]
- He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. [2]
- The ropedancer had recovered consciousness, and the kind prelate's presence was a solace to her. [10]
- Your friend has recovered consciousness, and I will wager that at this moment he is thinking of you and wishes you were with him. [10]
- She had half recovered consciousness several times, and as these thoughts had come over her, her returning lucidity had vanished and a fresh attack of fever had shaken her. [10]
- But the Doctor read through words and thoughts and all into the father's consciousness. [6]
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