I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

Mama always felt that the collection symbolized Mrs. Coolidge's wish for a little girl.

Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.

He ate what he felt like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow, dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral.

The thin legs twitched convulsively once, then Kate felt the little body stiffening in her arms and heard one strangled sound.

but all the same he thought now, uneasily, of the way in which Angelo earned his living -- and paid for his own stuff -- and eyed the soft smile, and the spaniel-like dark eyes, and he felt a little ill.

He was not a superstitious man, but he felt perhaps there was a little something in that, indeed.

Haney felt like shrinking out of sight, but he was already trapped in the corner with the wiry, dark little man.

You laughed and then your chest swelled and you felt you could cry for a little bit, and then a feeling hit you like a chill in your stomach and the goose bumps rippled along your arm.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

Although the Umayyads did not have a historical presence in the region ( no member of the Umayyad family was known to have ever set foot in al-Andalus before ) and there were grave concerns about young Abd al-Rahman's inexperience, several of the lower-ranking Yemenite commanders felt they had little to lose and much to gain, and agreed to support the prince.

However, he would take office with a group of men who possessed little or no official experience, who had rarely felt moved to speak in the House of Commons before, and who, as a group, remained hostile to Disraeli on a personal level, his assault on the Corn Laws notwithstanding.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

Although between 1914 and 1918 World War I was raging in Europe, its effects were little felt in Malaya, apart from the 1915 Singapore Mutiny.

The impact of Visigothic rule was not widely felt on society at large, and certainly not compared to the vast bureaucracy of the Roman Empire ; they tended to rule as barbarians of a mild sort, uninterested in the events of the nation and economy, working for personal benefit, and little literature remains to us from the period.

Even while the country enjoyed a degree of prosperity when compared to the famines of France and Germany in this period, the Visigoths felt little reason to contribute to the welfare, permanency, and infrastructure of their people and state.

Wilder felt Lemmon had a natural tendency toward overacting that had to be tempered ; the Wilder biography Nobody's Perfect quotes the director as saying, " Lemmon, I would describe him as a ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat ".

Although some chroniclers felt that John had been humiliated by the sequence of events, there was little public reaction.

Although stylistically their music had little in common, he clearly felt that he needed, and benefitted from, Webern ’ s acute perfectionism.

While Stalin had little faith in Japan's commitment to neutrality, he felt that the pact was important for its political symbolism, to reinforce a public affection for Germany.

Critics of the magazine felt that this lack of turnover eventually led to a formulaic sameness, although there is little agreement on when the magazine peaked or plunged.

Nurmi felt that he got too much credit as an athlete and too little as a businessman, but his interest in running never died.

He felt light-headed and sick.

Turning toward the patient again, I -- I can't describe what happened to me then, except to say that I felt sick.

Currie later remarked that Lenihan was his personal friend, and that he felt personally sick at being asked to endorse somebody he did not like, for the sake of beating Lenihan.

Kathy meets with Dave and tells him how sick she felt when a party guest told a bigoted joke.

Research done at the University of Minnesota had students play Halo for less than an hour, and found that up to 50 percent felt sick afterwards.

When he was legitimately sick, he actually felt good, because it was difficult and tiring to have to invent diseases but when he actually had something, he was relaxed.

On April 18, 1887, Gilman wrote in her diary that she was very sick with " some brain disease " which brought suffering that cannot be felt by anybody else, to the point that her " mind has given way.

Broadcasters noticed he was messing up signals when he changed pitchers, and Howser later admitted he felt sick before the game.

In 2004, he stated to Sci-Fi Pulse that he had felt resentment over the failure of his planned Galactica continuation and was left " exhausted and sick ...

* In English rapper Plan B's song ' Rakin ' The Dead ' he quotes " I haven't felt this sick since I saw that film ' Bad Taste '".

The building was the first in the area to be clad with large plate glass windows ; Ainscow stated, " I felt sick of having to knock on doors and hide ".

On 6 October, Chris Cheney left the band because he felt enormously burnt out, and was sick of the constant touring, as well as experiencing writers block.

As she was not a doctor, but was successful at curing the sick, some people felt she could only have medical skills if she were a witch ; one of those who testified against Ann was Phillip Read, a doctor.

Jackson felt that children distorting themselves for a part in a short or feature was " sick ", and at age 8, she walked away from Hollywood.

* Pam went home because she felt sick.

It explains why people arriving later fainted or felt unwell in each case ( a servant at the vicarage has also become sick ).

During a visit to Israel and the West Bank in 2005 Jämtin called the wall between the two " Crazy and sick " and that she felt that a two state solution is impossible because of Israels actions, and that if Israel wants to build a wall it should do so in its own territory.

As the forest becomes completely filled with murky swamps, poisonous plants, and malicious vines, Matty feels as if everything were too mixed up to be fixed, which is almost identical to the feelings of helplessness he felt as he watched his old friends from Village become sick and hostile.

" The other one answers: " Nothing, I just felt sick and took support on this wall.

She felt so strongly about the significance of proper food for the sick that she believed she would be remembered chiefly by her work in that field, as opposed to her work in household and fancy cookery.

His interest in Blackarachnia faded after she stated she was “ sick of his stupid little crush ”, although a later comment about how she was really something would seem to indicate that he still felt something for her.

Ainsworth found the Christmas scenes equally difficult, and told Cosmopolitan magazine: " Even though I'm an actress, at that point when I was on the floor, I felt totally and utterly humiliated and sick.

She developed bulimia at 18 and says she first made herself sick Christmas Day 2000 remarking "... I felt a huge sense of relief afterwards.

Horrocks later said that this had been " the most terrible decision I had ever taken in my life " and that he felt " physically sick " when he saw the bombers overhead.