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Warmth in sentence

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In the midst of the white steam and the whistling of the escapes a stoker was occupied in piling up one of the furnaces, the heat of which could be felt as far as the threshold; and the young man was approaching glad of the warmth, when he met a new band of colliers who had just arrived at the pit.
Before going down, they all came here to get a little warmth in their skins, so that they could face the dampness of the pit.
But this time he caught a glimpse of the developing curves of her breast: he suddenly understood the warmth which had penetrated him.
There was a pleasant warmth of living beasts, the good odour of fresh and well-kept litter.
Catherine, in the tram above him, was no longer at his side with her pleasant enervating warmth; and he preferred to avoid foolish thoughts and to go away, for with his wider education he felt nothing of the resignation of this flock; he would end by strangling one of the masters.
Outside, the weather was becoming milder: the sooty sky was growing copper-coloured, laden with one of those warm rains of the Nord, the approach of which one feels by the moist warmth of the air, and the night was coming on in great mists which drowned the distant landscape of the plain.
But not a breath of it entered; a greenhouse warmth developed the delicate odour of the pineapple, sliced in a crystal bowl.
Then he must have warmth.
Old Bonnemort and the little ones were huddled together on the bench for the sake of warmth.
And, in fact, he tasted a certain comfort in the bottom of this hole; the heat was not too great, an equal temperature reigned here at all seasons, the warmth of a bath, while the rough December wind was chapping the skins of the miserable people on the earth.
It was with their sighs, with their mixed breaths, that the damp warmth of this room had grown heavy; the penetrating odour which had suffocated him was the odour of musk which his wife's skin exhaled, another perverse taste, a fleshly need of violent perfumes; and he seemed to feel also the heat and odour of fornication, of living adultery, in the pots which lay about, in the basins still full, in the disorder of the linen, of the furniture, of the entire room tainted with vice.
The weather, too, had become fine; there was a bright sun--one of those first February days which, with their moist warmth, tip the lilac shoots with green.
Pressed one against the other in their shirts, they could feel the warmth of each other's naked flesh, at the edge of this bed, still moist with the night's sleep.
The warmth of spring was in the clear sky.
In 1864, during experiments on fishing by electric light in the middle of the North Sea, glass panes less than seven millimeters thick were seen to resist a pressure of sixteen atmospheres, all the while letting through strong, heat-generating rays whose warmth was unevenly distributed.
And if Commander Maury is correct, were one to harness the full warmth of this current, it would supply enough heat to keep molten a river of iron solder as big as the Amazon or the Missouri."
Still sleepy from the warmth of his bed, he let himself be lulled by the quiet trot of his horse.
She smiled under the tender warmth, and drops of water could be heard falling one by one on the stretched silk.
He read it a little after dinner, but in about five minutes the warmth of the room added to the effect of his dinner sent him to sleep; and he sat there, his chin on his two hands and his hair spreading like a mane to the foot of the lamp.
In the supineness of her conscience she even took her repugnance towards her husband for aspirations towards her lover, the burning of hate for the warmth of tenderness; but as the tempest still raged, and as passion burnt itself down to the very cinders, and no help came, no sun rose, there was night on all sides, and she was lost in the terrible cold that pierced her.
It was the first time that Emma had heard such words spoken to herself, and her pride, like one who reposes bathed in warmth, expanded softly and fully at this glowing language.
They threw their arms round one another, and all their rancour melted like snow beneath the warmth of that kiss.
He sang a little song as he followed the carriages—"Maids an the warmth of a summer day Dream of love, and of love always"And all the rest was about birds and sunshine and green leaves.
Suddenly on the pavement was heard a loud noise of clogs and the clattering of a stick; and a voice rose—a raucous voice—that sang—"Maids in the warmth of a summer day Dream of love and of love always"Emma raised herself like a galvanised corpse, her hair undone, her eyes fixed, staring.
And lines that can leave no doubt as to the warmth of my admiration!
As they returned to the drawing-room, towards midnight, Madame de Renal murmured in his ear:'Are you leaving us, are you going away?'Julien answered with a sigh:'I must indeed go away, for I love you passionately; it is a sin ... and what a sin for a young priest!'Madame de Renal leaned upon his arm, bending towards him until her cheek felt the warmth of his.
In the end, Julien was deeply impressed by the embraces, in which there was no warmth, of this living corpse; he could think of nothing else for some leagues.
'I give you my word of honour,' said Julien with the heartfelt warmth of an honest man.
Norbert had found that he replied with too much warmth to the pleasantries of certain of his friends.
No doubt, provincials may be accused of a trace of vulgarity, or of a want of politeness; but they do show a little warmth in answering one.
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