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felt and her
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
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.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.
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.
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.
When Thompson and her daughter began a correspondence which included fervent verses from Pantasaph, Mrs. King felt a proper Victorian alarm.
Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.
He felt close to Mary, having spent so long concentrating on the beginning of her journey.
only what Mary felt for her son.
The thin legs twitched convulsively once, then Kate felt the little body stiffening in her arms and heard one strangled sound.
Kate felt she had deserted the boy in her own loss.
For an instant the old aunt felt something indefinable flash through her smile.
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.
Naturally, Viola had no wish to remain, but she felt she couldn't leave so soon after her arrival, in all politeness to her host.
She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls.

felt and did
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 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.
Published in 1923, it did not gain the popular acclaim of the Garibaldi volumes, probably because Trevelyan felt less at home with Manin, the bourgeois lawyer, than with Garibaldi, the filibuster.
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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.
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 sat stiff-backed in a chair that did not swivel, though it was obvious to Gun that Killpath felt his position as acting captain plainly merited a swivel chair.
Presumably those who did not have a formal church connexion had also felt the influence of Christianity to a greater or lesser extent.
It was an era of constitution writing — most states were busy at the task — and leaders felt the new nation must have a written constitution, even though other nations did not.
A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.
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.
The minute his much less confident understudy took over, she felt free to blossom, which she spectacularly did.
Universal was not happy with Raimi's cut because it did not like his original ending of the movie and felt that it was negative.
According to Ivinskaya, " He did not believe that we would ever publish the manuscript here and felt he had no right to withhold a masterpiece from the world -- this would be an even greater crime.
According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.
Because graduates did not have the benefit of accredited degrees, the faculty felt an increased responsibility to prepare their students.
According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.
Valiente felt that the influence of Crowley on the Charge was too obvious, and she did not want the Craft associated with Crowley.
* The faculty member overseeing the capstone submissions felt that students who did not enroll in the technical writing class were at a significant disadvantage when compared to their peers who did register for the course.
He did not wish to be defended ; he felt that he must suffer in silence and be true to the Master ’ s last will and testament.

felt and concern
The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.
The union does not regard unemployment of its own members as a matter of concern when setting its own wage policy -- its concern with employment makes itself felt in pressure upon the government to maintain full employment.
Crick felt that this attitude encouraged him to be more daring than typical biologists who tended to concern themselves with the daunting problems of biology and not the past successes of physics.
Nancy stated in her memoirs, " I felt panicky every time left the White House " following the assassination attempt, and made it her concern to know her husband's schedule: the events he would be attending, and with whom.
However, editor David Remnick felt the image's obvious excesses rebuffed the concern that it could be misunderstood, even by those unfamiliar with the magazine.
Pope John Paul II felt that, “ de facto free unions, i. e., those unions without any publicly recognized institutional bond, are an increasing concern .” As for the Jewish perspective, “ For example, normative Judaism forcefully rejects the claim that never marrying is an equally valid lifestyle to marriage.
the latter concern being shared by some Trotskyites who felt that they, and anti-Stalin socialists in general, were persecuted by the CPUSA.
This was condemned by contemporary chroniclers, and is felt to have caused concern to Isabella as well ; some of those widows being persecuted included her friends.
One supporter wrote to the Football Association and Minister for Sport complaining " The whole area was packed solid to the point where it was impossible to move and where I, and others around me, felt considerable concern for personal safety ".
The databases were an explicit concern of various civil liberties groups ( on both the left and the right ) who felt that such databases could include false information about citizens with no way for those citizens to know that such information was compiled about them, nor any way for them to correct the information, nor any way for them to confront their accusers.
Over the next few years, Joyce's method became one of " increasingly obsessional concern with note-taking, since obviously felt that any word he wrote had first to have been recorded in some notebook.
In an article entitled, “ The Dangers We Face ,” written in the November 1957 issue of the Bulletin, Harrison Brown stated, “ I believe that we ( the United States ) are rapidly approaching the time when industrial society will reach a ‘ point of no return ’ – a point beyond which recovery from major disruption may literally be impossible ...” The dangers of full-scale nuclear war were a major concern of the Bulletin contributors, and the fear and “ Peril ” that they felt was expressed through their writing.
The adventure cards were felt to lose their novelty after a time and there was a concern over the emphasis on luck in winning the game.
Kimberly and Richard confront Godell at his home with what they know, at which point, the engineer voices his concern about the vibration he felt during the SCRAM and his anger about the false radiographs.
His family doctor, however, felt that the real problem was that the boy was lucky if he saw his parents for more than 1 hour each week, and was skeptical that throwing therapists, diagnoses, and stimulant medication at him was going to help the concern.
Jewish reactions to the motu proprio underlined their concern that the traditional formulation, which Jews felt offensive, would be more broadly used.
In the early days of anti-spam honeypots, spammers, with little concern for hiding their location, felt safe testing for vulnerabilities and sending spam directly from their own systems.
Quite logically, Philip III and his councillors felt more concern for Spain's reputation and for the impact that a compromise with the Dutch Republic might have on Habsburg positions as a whole.
But the German government can not prevent such requests being made and the Polish government has felt that the submissions warranted a comment by Anna Fotyga, the Polish Minister of the Foreign Affairs who " express deepest concern upon receiving the information about a claim against Poland submitted by the Prussian Trust to the European Court of Human Rights ".
The Board felt that the change, taking effect on 1 April 1959, would enable the Rotodyne and other aircraft work to be handled by a concern concentrating on aviation.
Out of " care and concern " for the Einsatzgruppen, Himmler felt there was a need for a " humane " way of killing — for the killers, that is, not the victims.
Carmen's main concern was with her little brother Juni, whom she felt she was unfairly forced to babysit.
While she gave as the reason for her withdrawal the need to fully develop her voice, others felt that this was a period of concern for her weight and thus her stage image.

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