1 I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me.
2 I cannot accept on His behalf a divided allegiance: it must be entire.
3 Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.
4 The more you and I converse, the better; for while I cannot blight you, you may refresh me.
5 I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it.
6 I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell.
7 The reason of my departure I cannot and ought not to explain: it would be useless, dangerous, and would sound incredible.
8 You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.
9 I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period.
10 I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
11 Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry, I cannot flatter myself that I am better than he: I am forced to confess that he and I are on a level.
12 I knew, by instinct, how the matter stood, before St. John had said another word; but I cannot expect the reader to have the same intuitive perception, so I must repeat his explanation.
13 Miss Eyre, draw your chair still a little farther forward: you are yet too far back; I cannot see you without disturbing my position in this comfortable chair, which I have no mind to do.
14 How I looked while these ideas were taking my spirit by storm, I cannot tell; but I perceived soon that Mr. Rivers had placed a chair behind me, and was gently attempting to make me sit down on it.
15 You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death; and the worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a moment blame him for it.
16 I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.
17 I thank Providence, who watched over you, that she then spent her fury on your wedding apparel, which perhaps brought back vague reminiscences of her own bridal days: but on what might have happened, I cannot endure to reflect.
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