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`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
I had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
`` I guess we both felt it ''.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.
Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.
Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.
Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.

felt and about
He has felt terrible about all this.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.
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.
he felt he was noting it, as if it were something he might think about when he grew stronger.
Whatever we felt about the redcoats, we respected them in terms of their trade, which was killing ; ;
Never in my life have I felt so remorseful about anything I've done as I did about spending that night with my own wife.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.
Reverently and raised their eyes, as if they were at a loss to describe how they felt about Kafka, which they were, because they had no opinions about Kafka, not having read Kafka.
Music, of course, is not so explicit an art, but anybody who knew Charlie Parker knows that he felt much the same way about his own gift.
Shout at Eichmann though he might, the Prosecutor could not establish that the defendant was falsifying the way he felt about Jews or that what he did feel fell into the generally recognized category of anti-Semitism.
He felt nothing further need be said about the servant girl.
She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.
It was just that she felt deeply about every patient on the ward and wanted to believe that they might benefit from their treatment there.
With dealer stocks of new equipment averaging about 25% below a year ago, the affects of the rural recovery are being felt almost immediately by the country's farm equipment manufacturers.
Kern began reading a lot about the history and philosophy of Communism, but never felt there was anything he, as an individual, could do about it.

felt and best
It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.
During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.
I felt that if we weren't the best, it would be my naval career.
At a cost of almost $ 1, 000, 000, Chaplin felt it was the best film he had made to that point.
" He felt it was fair to middling at best.
His psychological theories pertain to education as they focus on the development of object teaching, that is, he felt that individuals best learned through experiences and through a direct manipulation and experience of objects.
Southern opposition to the plan defeated the measure because they felt it was best to have his body remain at Mount Vernon.
The pedestal base bears a quotation in raised letters and Braille characters: " The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Dole despised Kemp's economic theories, but he felt Kemp-like tax cuts offered his best chance at electoral success.
Many felt " that ' the flower of youth ' and the ' best of the nation ' had been destroyed ," for example such notable casualties as the poets Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, and Wilfred Owen, composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley.
She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as ' a room of one's own ', and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, on the other hand, can be best thought of as the philosophical reflections of an emperor divided between his philosophical aspirations and the duty he felt to defend the Roman Empire from its external enemies through his various military campaigns.
He felt that interest in the material being learned was the best stimulus for learning rather than external motivation such as grades.
Most reviewers felt the game was best when played with others online.
Both Morris and Burne-Jones had come to Oxford with the intention of taking holy orders, but as they felt their way, both decided their energies were best spent on social reform.
His temper flared when he felt that others did not give their best, but in later reunions they admitted that Lord's hard driving force had made them better actors and made Hawaii Five-O a better show.
Hentzi concluded that American Beauty was " vital but uneven "; he felt the film's examination of " the ways which teenagers and adults imagine each other's lives " was its best point, and that although Lester and Angela's dynamic was familiar, its romantic irony stood beside " the most enduring literary treatments " of the theme, such as Lolita.
Spiner felt that he had visibly aged out of the role and that Data was best presented as a youthful figure.
In June 2007, Gametrailers made a countdown in which the top 10 best Star Wars games are listed, and in said list Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast ranks as number one ; the narrator mentions that " this may not be the first time in which you play as a Jedi in a video game, but this is the first time in which you actually felt like one ".
He said in an interview that he felt he had done his bit for science after 25 years, and that his best mathematical work was probably behind him ; Christianity had always been central to his life, so ordination offered an attractive second career.
In a televised broadcast to the nation, Ford explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interest of the country.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times stated that " Starting with Tom Hanks, who brings an invaluable heft and believability to Woody, Toy Story is one of the best voiced animated features in memory, with all the actors ... making their presences strongly felt.
However, as they worked on material together, Fleischman was impressed by Wetton's singing and felt the voice best suited to the new material was Wetton's own.

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