"Conscious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... notice, to record and to classify the facts of nature. We may count this the second visible step in his great progress. Never again shall we find him in a childish attitude of idle wonder. Always is his brain alert, striving to understand, self-conscious of ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various
... and perpetual thunder. I wondered whether the air about me—heavy and hot and full of faint leafy smells—could ever have been touched by the vast pure sweet breath of the wind from the sunrising. And I became conscious of a profound, unreasoning, absurd regret for the somnolent little black village of that bare east coast,— where there are no woods, no ships, no sunsets,...only the ocean roaring forever over its beach of ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn
... excite criticism and good enough to bear it; broad-shouldered, deep-chested, strong in arm and limb, he carried his six feet of manhood like an Apollo in tweeds. He was introduced to the girls,—the men he knew,—but he was not so quick in his speeches to them. Our Hercules was only mildly conscious of his merits, and was evidently relieved when Jack hurried him off to his room to dress for dinner. When he was fairly out of hearing there was a chorus of comments. The girls all declaimed him ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter
... these, without dispute, Some youthful gaspings for forbidden fruit: Why so disorder'd, love? are such the crimes That give us sorrow in our graver times? Come, take a present for your friend, and rest In perfect peace—you find you are confess'd." This cloud, though past, alarm'd the conscious wife, Presaging gloom and sorrow for her life; Who to her answer join'd a fervent prayer That her Eliza would a sister spare: If she again—but was there cause?—should send, Let her direct—and then she named a friend: A sad ...
— Tales • George Crabbe
... the trade with Flanders, Italy, and Spain. But Charles, though still loyal to his aunt's cause, had no mind to incur risks for her; and Clement, though he annulled Cranmer's proceedings, hesitated as yet to take sterner action. Henry, on the other hand, conscious that the die was thrown, moved rapidly forward in the path that Cromwell had opened. The Pope's reversal of the primate's judgment was answered by an appeal to a general council. The decision of the cardinals to ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various
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