Use emotion in a sentence
Sentences ending with emotion
- The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
- These are tinged with religious emotion. [9]
- Her tact, on which she prided herself, had deserted her in a moment of unlooked-for emotion. [9]
- The king's eyes were moist with grateful emotion. [10]
- Nor did she understand what it was in him that now, on this day of days when she had definitely cast the die of life, when she had chosen her path, aroused this strange emotion. [9]
- If her hand touches mine, it is not a thrill of passion I feel running through me, but a very different emotion. [6]
- Poetry is commonly thought to be the language of emotion. [6]
- He wanted to think and think of the meaning, but he resolutely dispelled emotion. [13]
- While Philip spoke the Duke never took eyes from his face--that face so facile in the display of feeling or emotion. [11]
- He ran to the dog, which had silently collapsed like a punctured bag of silk, drew out the kris, then swung towards Boonda Broke, whose cool, placid eyes met his without emotion. [11]
Sentences containing emotion two or more times
- Something warped and thwarted the emotion which would have been love in another, no doubt; but that such an emotion was striving with her against all malign influences which interfered with it the old woman had a perfect certainty in her own mind. [6]
- It was emotion, just ordinary emotion. [5]
- But a new emotion had begun to take possession of Janet--an emotion so strong as to give her an unlookedfor sense of detachment. [9]
More example sentences with the word emotion in them
- More than a year had passed since she had seen him, but there was no emotion, no ardour in their present greeting. [11]
- Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. [5]
- He was not without magnanimity, and he could the more easily exercise it because his pulses of emotion were still. [11]
- You--" Abruptly and with surprise she withdrew her hand, and, without any visible emotion save a quicker pulsation of her breast, which might have been indignation, spoke. [11]
- I thanked him, with emotion, for each new fact, and wrote it down in my note-book. [5]
- But out of wilful idleness, the mere flattery of the senses, a vampire feeding upon the spirits and souls of others, for nothing save emotion for emotion's sake --that was shameless, it was the last humiliation of a woman. [11]
- With the finality which the tickets for Winnipeg signified, the shrill panic emotion seemed to pass from him. [11]
- From this emotion, which filled heart and mind, a glowing wealth of other feelings had blossomed like buds upon a rosebush. [10]
- But if he was, he still got his information at second-hand, as it was the operator who noticed Harriet's lack of emotion, not himself. [5]
- So noble, indeed, was the picture which Mr. Billings' eloquence raised up that his voice shook with emotion as he finished. [9]
- In this music was the note of the character of the man who played--sensuous emotion, sensual delight. [11]
- His reckless nature was subdued, and an emotion of tenderness which he had never experienced before thrilled him as she whispered, "Take me to a place where everybody can see us, but where we need not notice anyone else. [10]
- But while she was struggling not to weep aloud, emotion and anxiety for the old man who, through her fault, would be exposed to so much danger, extorted the cry: "Take care of him, Herr Pyramus! [10]
- His tortured heart was stirred with deep emotion, and the drooping wings of ambition unfolded with fresh energy. [10]
- Nay, her emotion was so vehement that the bright tears streamed down her fat cheeks. [10]
- What he felt was more than pity; he was experiencing, indeed, but with a deeper emotion, something of that same confusion of values into which Eleanor Goodrich's visit had thrown him. [9]
- All this emotion was in the nature of a surprise to the young man. [6]
- Our first emotion was deep, unutterable gratitude, our next was a foolish rage, born of the suspicion that possibly the hotel had been visible three-quarters of an hour while we sat there in those cold puddles quarreling. [5]
- Influenced as I was by emotion when in her presence, I resorted to a personal application of my opinions--the last and most unfair resort of a disputant. [11]
- But now Laura was a convert to the prophet of the Healing Springs, and those people who still retain their heads in the eddy of religious emotion were in despair. [11]
- Very unlike Barine's voice, too, were the deep, earnest tones trembling with emotion, in which she confronted him with the brief question, concealing a faint reproach, "Another demand? [10]
- A new and violent emotion was stirring her young soul; not many minutes since she had squatted peacefully on the ground by the side of the wounded man, with her head resting on her hand, and thinking of her goats on the mountain. [10]
- I had a very sweet emotion of self-pity, which took the sting out of my painful discovery that the orchestra of my pleasing life-entertainment was unstringing its instruments, and the lights were being extinguished,--that the show was almost over. [6]
- It was a vast emotion, fibre-drawn From all the elements since the first dawn. [11]
- Panic emotion was uppermost, while desperate and reckless purpose was in his eyes. [11]
- But a dammed-up torrent of emotion at last burst its bounds, and the hour that saw his release from immediate action was one that confounded him in the reaction of his spirit. [13]
- The position was too painful, too tragic, for even the great emotion in her heart. [11]
- There were hoarse tones in her voice, usually so clear and musical, which betrayed the emotion raging in her breast as she assailed the young Macedonian noble with a flood of questions. [10]
- I had begun to write, and every strong emotion was uttered in verses, which I showed to the companions from whom I could expect sympathy. [10]
- He hardly dared to turn round to his comrades, lest his emotion should be seen. [11]
- When they returned to the house, and she was thanking him with a glow of enthusiasm for such a lovely day, he lifted her up and kissed her, with an emotion of affection that brought tears to her eyes. [4]
- Now we were to see their home, and a strange emotion took possession of me when we entered it. [10]
- I am sorry to say, my friends," he added, with emotion, "that Mr. Allen is about to leave us. [9]
- A strong desire to regain perfect self-possession ere he again mingled in the jubilant throng and met his father, who shared every lofty emotion that stirred his own soul, detained him on the battle-field. [10]
- I gave everything to my sovereign, and if he wants my life also," she continued with fresh emotion, "he may have it; but the existence of a caged bird!--that will destroy me. [10]
- He even tried to get up some emotion about that poor courier, who never got a chance to see anything, on account of my heedlessness. [5]
- He was glad to find some way of concealing his emotion when Mary seized his hand and, pressing a long kiss on it, wetted it with her tears. [10]
- Gradually the flood tide of emotion began to ebb, and the confusion of loving exclamations and incoherent words gained some order and separated into question and answer. [10]
- Nothing but the thought and emotion evolved and expressed. [4]
- Pierre was among those who saw him come out from the merchants' hall with tears of emotion in his eyes. [2]
- When, in saying this, her hoarse voice failed and tears of pain and sorrow filled her eyes, emotion overpowered him also and, after he had again urged her to submit to the will of their imperial master, he tore himself away with a last farewell. [10]
- He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, 'I am Divine. [6]
- In them worked the whole forces of his nature; they were crucibles wherein every thought and emotion were fused. [11]
- At this spectacle the whole assembly, even the sternest old general, had been overwhelmed by deep emotion, and the spacious hall echoed with the sobs and groans of graybeards, middle-aged men and youths, warriors and statesmen. [10]
- An empty cask the size of a cathedral could excite but little emotion in me. [5]
- The lilt of the sensations, the idiosyncrasy of voice, emotion, and mind of the first hour of our century must now pass from the printed page to us, imperfectly realised; we may not know them through actual retrospection. [11]
- Andreas had watched the scene; a surge of fury had brought the blood to his face, and, stirred by great and genuine emotion, he broke out: "There--there you see the locusts which destroy my garden--the hail which ruins my crops! [10]
- Anna Mikhaylovna regarded the refined sadness that united her son to the wealthy Julie with emotion, and resignation to the Divine will. [2]
- With sympathising emotion the matron had heard her confess that during her nocturnal wanderings a new feeling, which she could no longer still, had awakened in her breast. [10]
- And now, in the Essay we have just been looking at, I find that "his books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level. [6]
- The poor and the crude in mind can only understand an objective emotion, and the counters for these are this world's goods. [11]
- On the way the blind man told the general what a severe trial awaited him, and the latter approved his course and, on bidding him farewell, with sincere emotion urged Hermon to take courage. [10]
- The appreciation and the bestowal of praise and blame both rest on sympathy; and this emotion, as we have seen, is one of the most important elements of the social instincts. [1]
- So it was that, on the day when he spoke at the political meeting, his life's tragedy became a hammer beating every nerve into emotion. [11]
- I was reminded that unexplained sudden deaths were of constant, of daily occurrence; that any emotion is liable to arrest the movements of life: terror, joy, good news or bad news,--anything that reaches the deeper nervous centres. [6]
- It was seldom that she had shown emotion in the past two years, and it was the more ample when it did break forth. [11]
- I have had that sensation, thought, emotion, a hundred times, but I never heard it spoken of before, and I never saw any mention of it in print;" and thirdly, anything one likes, provided he can so tell it as to make it interesting. [6]
- It is said that Satan often designs evil and yet works good, and if this late and very tender emotion is a gift of hell, it nevertheless affords our sovereign lord unexpected and therefore all the more exquisite joys. [10]
- Some minutes passed that he did not speak, making shift to raise his glass now and again, and I knew that he was gripped by a strong emotion. [9]
- She was learning that emotion is never simple. [9]
- Some explanation must take place between them, and how was it possible that it should be without emotion? [6]
- He would be sure to make the most of any opportunity for display of intellectual emotion, and he would have burst his buttons if he had known. [11]
- Indeed, she was sure that no emotion could so master her. [4]
- I should have supposed him incapable of any heedless word, any warm emotion, until I afterwards met him under his own roof and enjoyed the warm-hearted cheerfulness of the father of the family and the graciousness of the host. [10]
- Overcome by a sudden rush of emotion, she fell on her knees at his side, bursting into noiseless sobs, which shook her from head to foot. [11]
- Wild excitement, expectation strung to the highest pitch, and party-feeling, both for and against, had always, of course, been rife here; but to-day they were manifest in an acuter form--hatred had added its taint and lent virulence to every emotion. [10]
- A new and strange emotion took possession of the anchorite at the sight of this stone. [10]
- Tears of emotion stood in Nefert's eyes, and when Uarda flung herself into her arms she said: "The forlorn swan has found its kindred, the floating leaf has reached the shore, and must be happy now! [10]
- She expected to sting her, and she did astonish and she did grieve her, for the breaking-up of her world could not do otherwise; but it was for her mother and not for herself that Evelyn showed emotion. [4]
- She does not stand at the gate of the fold with welcoming arms spread, and receive the lost sheep with glad emotion and set up the fatted calf and invite the neighbor and have a time. [5]
- He would not spoil it by the tortures of emotion. [11]
- It broke the spell of emotion which was greatly straining everybody's endurance. [11]
- He tried to speak, but his voice failed from excess of emotion. [5]
- Her heart and soul overflowed with boundless emotion and unlimited thankfulness, and weeping loudly, she pressed her clasped hands to her breast. [10]
- It was the sort of day which ministers to human emotion, which stirs the sluggish blood, revives the drooping spirit. [11]
- It took her some time to get down the waves of emotion so that speech would live upon them. [6]
- There is something so audacious in the conception of ice-cream, that it is not strange that a population undebauched by the luxury of great cities looks upon it with a kind of awe and speaks of it with a certain emotion. [6]
- She had no signs of hysteria, though now and then there came heart-breaking little outbursts of emotion which had this proof that they were not hysteria-- they were never seen by others. [11]
- I rose and shook Krebs's hand: sheer inability to express my emotion drove me to commonplaces. [9]
- When she came she was perfectly self-composed, and more as she seemed when I first knew her, though I will admit that I thought her face more possible to emotion than in the past. [11]
- At last, however, she overcame her emotion and said: "So it was when M'sieu' Felix Marchand came up from the Sagalac. [11]
- The pathos which she had often expressed in singing solemn church music took possession of her, and left no room in her soul for any frivolous emotion. [10]
- Whether it were shame or wrath, he saw that he had reached some deep-lying centre of emotion. [6]
- She who had sent him was so grave and earnest that the bare thought of her being capable of any tender emotion wakened his mirth. [10]
- And so one saw a new thing now; a thing bred of the emotion that was present there on both sides. [5]
- She was the same in one sense as on that first day when he had seen her coiling and uncoiling her golden chain; yet how different in every aspect which revealed her state of mind and emotion! [6]
- He was almost rigid with emotion, for the ancient habit of repose and self- command of the Quaker people was upon him. [11]
- It is not right of you--" A sudden emotion seized him, and his voice shook. [11]
- Of all the riders ever in her employ Blake owed her the most, and as he stepped before her, removing his hat and making manly efforts to subdue his emotion, he showed that he remembered. [13]
- Because of the reversed current in the flow of thought and emotion. [6]
- They had both returned, as it were, in the self-same hour, each having endured a phase of emotion not easy to put on paper. [11]
- Dick could not remember that he had ever seen her show this mark of emotion before, in all his experience of her fitful changes of mood. [6]
- And still more reasonable does the division appear between all the world which is devoted to material life, and the few who live in and for the expression of thought and emotion. [4]
- There is every reason why I cannot," he added, and she knew that he was speaking with difficulty, as under great emotion. [9]
- Incredible is the range of human emotion! [9]
- But Pierre's face quivering with emotion, his questions and his eager restless expression, gradually compelled her to go into details which she feared to recall for her own sake. [2]
- When he was questioned by the experts to whom his case was submitted, he told them all that he knew about it almost without a sign of emotion. [6]
- Every time Joan put her handkerchief to her eyes you could see a little quiver of emotion crinkle along the faces of the files. [5]
- Whatever emotion it produced, she kept a still face, except, perhaps, a little trembling of the lip.--Could I be certain that there was any mortal complaint?--Why, no, I could not be certain; but it looked alarming to me.--He shall have some of my life,--she said. [6]
- Ireland's the only place in the world where they make saints of criminals and pray to them; where they lose track of time and think they're in eternity; where emotion is saturnine logic and death is the touchstone of life. [11]
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