1 She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them.
2 She lingered a moment, caught in the same strong current; then she slipped from him and drew back a step or two, pale and troubled.
3 A hot swift current was running through her.
4 But now, he turned against the stream in which he had drifted so short a while before, and began swimming arduously back against the current.
5 She was like a water-plant in the flux of the tides, and today the whole current of her mood was carrying her toward Lawrence Selden.
6 It was as if the eager current of her being had been checked by a sudden obstacle which drove it back upon itself.
7 The future seemed full of a vague promise, and all her apprehensions were swept out of sight on the buoyant current of her mood.
8 Nor was she without pale glimpses of her own world, especially since the breaking-up of the Newport season had set the social current once more toward Long Island.
9 He laid his hand for a moment on hers, and there passed between them, on the current of the rare contact, one of those exchanges of meaning which fill the hidden reservoirs of affection.
10 On and on it flowed, a current of meaningless sound, on which, startlingly enough, a familiar name now and then floated to the surface.
11 She tried to get back into the current.
12 She raged, but so violent was the current of their respectability, so persistent was Aunt Bessie in running to her with their blabber, that she was embarrassed when she took Hugh to play with Olaf.
13 The breeze flowed round the boat in a chill current.
14 A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.
15 She was talking "books" with Mr. Gouvernail and trying to draw from him his opinion upon current literary topics.