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"Self-consciously" Quotes from Famous Books

... street, and taking a byway which skirted the desert. She walked quickly. She longed to be within the shadows of the garden behind the white wall. She did not feel much, think much, as she walked. Without self-consciously knowing it she was holding all her nature, the whole of herself, fiercely in check. She did not look about her, did not see the sunlit reaches of the desert, or the walls of the houses of Beni-Mora, or the palm trees. Only when she had passed the hotel and the ...

— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens

... even for Mrs. Maldon. The cutlets were wrapped in newspaper, and Louis rather self-consciously opened the maw ...

— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... inviting, almost an aggressive air. And he stooped and picked it up, putting it rather self-consciously, because of the girl from whose table it had come, on the white tablecloth ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... "Snubbed me!" reddening self-consciously, and drawing himself up as if he did not much relish the application of the word. "I do not often give any one the chance of doing ...

— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton

... Self-consciously she dropped her head over the back of her chair to be rid of her curls. "My father," she musingly observed, "is ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

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