Use senses in a sentence
Sentences ending with senses
- Had the architect's wine bereft him of his senses? [10]
- Perfection in husbands was evidently a state not to be considered by any woman in her right senses. [9]
- With her this was a dislike of any shock to the senses. [11]
- Our brother Philip, too, lives with his heart in bonds to that one alone, unless a demon has cheated his senses. [10]
- You have only to learn for the first time how the acclamations of tens of thousands take hold upon the heart and intoxicate the senses. [10]
- The fact of the vast diffusion of some odors, as that of musk or the rose, for instance, has long been cited as the most remarkable illustration of the divisibility of matter, and the nicety of the senses. [3]
- He went into the town-ill-out of his senses. [10]
- They had seen the tank foul with age, from which water was drawn for men who could not live without it, and the smell of it had revolted Dyck's senses. [11]
- But it was the sight of his stricken father that first brought him completely to his sober senses. [10]
- Before Fleda entered the room she knew what awaited her; a merciful intuition had blunted the shock to her senses. [11]
Short sentences using senses
- He doubted his senses. [9]
- Then his senses returned. [5]
- His senses were reeling. [11]
- Stephen came to his senses. [9]
- Her senses had deceived her. [11]
- His senses were abnormally acute. [11]
- In her senses? [11]
Sentences containing senses two or more times
- They lost their senses, Mr. Worthington, plumb lost their senses. [9]
- It is now necessary that man, governed by his senses, should find in virtue a charm palpable to those senses. [2]
More example sentences with the word senses in them
- Have you lost your senses, to take a woman into Kentucky this year? [9]
- A delicious dreaminess wrought its web about my yielding senses, while the snow-flakes wove a winding sheet about my conquered body. [5]
- Now the outside world was shut out from Fournel's senses as it was from Louis Racine's. [11]
- It was a world of unbridled will, this, where the soul of Jethro Fawe had its origin; and to it his senses fled involuntarily when he put Sarasate's fiddle to his chin this Autumn evening. [11]
- How beautiful the world is to an invalid, whose senses are all clarified, who has been so near the world of spirits that she is sensitive to the finest influences, and whose frame responds with a thrill to the subtlest ministrations of soothing nature. [5]
- And she, too, with the subtle senses of a disembodied spirit, must have had a yearning towards him, for she had perceived all the depth and fervor of his passion. [10]
- He read it with eyes and senses that at first could hardly understand. [11]
- And as he wiped away her tears with his handkerchief he could scarcely believe his senses that this was the woman whose resistance had demanded all his force to overcome. [9]
- 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]
- They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
- If either refers what he perceives with his senses to a mental concept, then so do both. [1]
- But new senses were suddenly born in her, new eyes were given to her mind, new powers for endurance to her soul. [11]
- Suddenly my senses were alert, and I knew that Mr. Trevor had pulled the detective out of bed. [9]
- Twice in one week did this fever surge up in him, and it caught him in those moments when, exhausted by the struggle of his mind to adapt itself to the new conditions, his senses were delicately susceptible. [11]
- With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
- Just as I was in the very act of mounting, I lost my senses and strength, and fell down on the ground in a dead faint. [10]
- While her mind was engaged subconsciously with what Lord Windlehurst and David said, comprehending it all, and, when Lord Windlehurst appealed to her, offering by a word contribution to the 'pourparler', she was studying David as steadily as her heated senses would permit her. [11]
- At first nothing was clear to me; my brain was dancing in my head, my sight was obscured, my body painful, my senses were blunted. [11]
- All this luxury was as grateful to systems and senses worn out with an exhausting day's travel, as it was unexpected--for one can not tell what to expect in a Turkish city of even a quarter of a million inhabitants. [5]
- Standing up, Orlando was about to call out again in peremptory tones, when, suddenly, the spirit of death touched his senses, and his heart stood still for an instant. [11]
- No, his effort was a stream of fire, that kindled his soul into a flame of admiration, and carried his senses away captive. [5]
- He began to wander about; and there grew upon his senses strange delights and reeling agonies. [11]
- Even on the verge of the last ambushed passage her senses came back; but they came with a stark realization of the peril ahead: it looked out of her eyes as a face shows itself at the window of a burning building. [11]
- There was an undertone of reflection in the voice which did not escape Mrs. Crozier's senses, and it also caught the ear of the Young Doctor, to whom there came a sudden revelation of the reason why Burlingame had left Mrs. Tynan's house. [11]
- It is hard to understand how she has learned to deal with abstract ideas, and so far to supplement the blanks left by the senses of sight and hearing that one would hardly think of her as wanting in any human faculty. [6]
- They will come to their senses, and see what nonsense it all is. [4]
- Do justice then to the blinded souls, justice in Plato's sense of the word; he calls the virtue of reason Wisdom; the virtue of spirit Courage, and the virtue of the senses Temperance. [10]
- The mind goes to sleep: the senses and the instincts wake up. [4]
- It was enough to sit on deck forward of the wheel-house, and absorb, by all the senses, the delicious day. [4]
- Now it seemed to pierce his senses and to flood his nerves with feeling. [11]
- But I came to my senses before it was too late. [10]
- Confusion was rare to him, and his senses, feeling the fog, embarrassed by a sudden air of mystery and a cloud of futurity, were creeping to a mind-path of understanding. [11]
- Is it "low" to dwell upon these things of the senses, when one is on a tour in search of the picturesque? [4]
- After a considerable time--he could not tell how long--his senses struggled to a half-consciousness, and as he lay with closed eyes vaguely wondering where he was and what had been happening, he noted a murmurous sound, the sullen beating of rain upon the roof. [5]
- It acts sometimes through the senses, sometimes through the imagination, sometimes through an unknown channel. [6]
- In darkness, however, those things were naught, because judgment must depend on the eyes and senses of others. [11]
- You must not think him an evil-disposed man, but a word that goes against the grain, a look askance will rob him of his senses, and things are done which he repents as soon as they are over. [10]
- Old men were there, whose eyes were dim and senses failing--grandmothers, who might have died ten years ago, and still been old--the deaf, the blind, the lame, the palsied, the living dead in many shapes and forms, to see the closing of that early grave. [12]
- Yet now and then the perfume of the Egyptian garden, through which she had fled to escape from tragedy, swept over her senses, clouded her eyes in the daytime, made them burn at night. [11]
- As they seated themselves, there was renewed in Louise the feeling she had at supper-time, when she had imagined--or had her senses accurately divined? [11]
- All at once the world seemed to be a vast vacuum in which his brain strove for air, and all his senses were numbed and overpowered. [11]
- No heart--there is the thing; with a good brain and senses all warm with life--to feel, but never to have the arrow strike home. [11]
- I expected that the spiced odors of Araby were going to steal over my senses now, but they did not. [5]
- The voice of the senses, which drew them together, will soon be mute and nothing will be left to them save discord. [10]
- The sight of the self-conscious woman who, in her wonderful beauty, stood leaning with folded arms on the ironing-table stirred his heart and senses too strongly. [10]
- Mechanically he did the same: his pulses beat more calmly, by degrees the visions faded from his senses, he saw and heard once more, and his brain recovered its balance. [10]
- As man possesses the same senses as the lower animals, his fundamental intuitions must be the same. [1]
- 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]
- A hieroglyph," said the Rhetor, "is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol. [2]
- I've got all the proofs in my pocket, even to the three silly letters you wrote her when your senses were stronger than your judgment. [11]
- He shuddered as the passionate notes swept over his senses. [11]
- The pleasures of the palate are among the last gratifications of the senses allowed them. [6]
- Barbara scarcely noticed the old lady at his left; he, he alone captivated her eyes, her heart, her senses, her whole being. [10]
- It is to the mind, and not to the senses, that such a story must appeal, and all attempts to render the character and events objective on the stage, or to make them real by artistic illustrations, are almost of necessity failures. [6]
- Mr. Bernard, in the mean time, had been getting, first his senses, and then some few of his scattered wits, a little together. [6]
- The Magians have the key which unlocks the door of the world of spirits to the human senses. [10]
- He had started the first saloon at Manitou, and had grown with the place in more senses than one. [11]
- It got into the eyes and senses of Jean Jacques, in a way which had nothing to do with the philosophy of Descartes, or Kant, or Aristotle, or Hegel. [11]
- One after another the days glided by, while with the sharpened senses of a great love she watched for a sign of the thing that slept in him--of the thing that had driven him home from his wanderings to re-create his life. [9]
- The generosity of the act benumbed my senses, and for the instant I was inclined to accept the offer upon the impulse of it. [9]
- How intent was that vigil, how alert and sharpened her senses, a woman who has watched alone may answer. [9]
- There were dreams that tossed and mingled in one whirlpool vision; and then at last came a dream which was so cruel and clear that it froze his senses. [11]
- We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. [1]
- For I believe that speech of his recalled me to my senses. [9]
- His life was that of self-absorption and hardship, mortification of the body, denial of the solicitation of the senses, struggling of the spirit for more holiness of purpose--a life of supplication for the perishing souls about him. [4]
- She was conscious that new senses and instincts were born in her, or were now first awakened to life. [11]
- You will see that I am losing my senses. [10]
- Also, he saw that her senses seemed alert for something outside their little circle. [11]
- Flushed from the terrible exertion which she had just made, with tangled, dishevelled locks, gasping and moaning, Cleopatra, as if out of her senses, tore open her robe, beat her breast, and lacerated it with her nails. [10]
- As Erris Boyne talked to him, the memory of Sheila flooded his mind, and on the flood his senses swam like swans. [11]
- I did not take this as serious advice, but its meaning is that one who has all his senses about him cannot help being anxious. [6]
- Her senses were swimming with a distant memory. [11]
- The physician and Susannah, who was still in full possession of her senses, wished and insisted that Katharina should withdraw to the gardener's house, but she refused with defiant obstinacy, saying she would rather die with her mother than leave her. [10]
- There was a sudden flash of Nahoum's eyes, as though he saw an outcome of the intention which pleased him, but Hylda, saw the flash, and her senses were at once alarmed. [11]
- The lookers-on were stunned with its suddenness, and before they had time to recover their bewildered senses all was lost, or seemed lost. [6]
- There was a strange apathy in his senses, an emotional stillness, as it were, the atrophy of all the passionate elements of his nature. [11]
- Her senses were strained for that very sound. [9]
- Yet something was stirring his senses strangely. [11]
- Not till the steward timidly touched her did she collect her senses like one suddenly roused from deep sleep. [10]
- These words, though spoken half in jest, put the king into a violent passion, and he almost shrieked: "So the Persians say, that the wine has taken away my senses, do they? [10]
- He began by speculating as to the possibility of the personal presence of an individual making itself perceived by some channel other than any of the five senses. [6]
- The effect of some music is to produce a divine quiescence of the senses, a suspension of motion and aggressive life; to reduce existence to mere pulsation. [11]
- A strange, almost solemn quietness stole over Al'mah's senses. [11]
- But was it so that there was a man whose senses could not be touched when all else failed? [11]
- You'd make a snail fidget, and I've got enough to do to keep my senses steady with all the house-work--and now her in there! [11]
- He drew back slowly like a man who gazes upon some horrible fascinating thing, and then turned heavily towards the sea, his face set, his senses paralysed. [11]
- He who, a short time before, had believed whatever could not be touched by the hands was useless for his art, now had the choice among a hundred subjects, full of glowing life, which were attainable by no organ of the senses. [10]
- Nor was what she heard in her half-dozing state, which was soon followed by the sound slumber of youth, any delusion of the senses. [10]
- In the beginning she had reasoned that her appeal to Lassiter must be through the senses. [13]
- She realized that she had "Tossed him violently like a ball into a far country," and that she had not now a vestige of power over him--either of his senses or his mind; that he was master of the situation. [11]
- Then suddenly, before she could organize her senses, a score of men seemed to rise up from the ground around her, to burst out from the bushes, to drop from the trees, and to storm upon her. [11]
- As to the senses, they all have an equal share in enabling us to receive our impressions and form an opinion from them. [10]
- To her sharpened senses, the very act itself was significant. [9]
- Regaining my full senses, I struck the man nearest me a blow that sent him sprawling in the dirt. [9]
- By, all my senses, all my faculties, I know that the icestorm is Nature's supremest achievement in the domain of the superb and the beautiful; and by my reason, at least, I know that the Taj is man's ice-storm. [5]
- Cinderella in more senses than one, for never had the city seemed more dirty or more deserted, or indeed, more stifling. [9]
- Through his awakening senses stole the murmurs of the living cradle which rocked him with the wavelike movements of respiration, the soft susurrus of the air that entered with every breath, the double beat of the heart which throbbed close to his ear. [6]
- Or were his senses playing him false? [10]
- Only the dull senses of men are dead to it as to the music of the spheres. [6]
- Did her keen senses deceive her, or was not what was occurring actually a mysterious transformation? [10]
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