1 She sat down again very suddenly, the reaction from her rage making her knees feel weak.
2 She looked down at the body again and now revulsion came over her as her rage and fright melted away, and her knees began to quiver with the reaction.
3 There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
4 But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust.
5 But with the turn of the wheels reaction came, and shuddering darkness closed on her.
6 The sudden and exquisite reaction from her anxieties had had the effect of throwing the recent past so far back that even Selden, as part of it, retained a certain air of unreality.
7 Temporarily, no doubt, however exerted, it worked for the general safety: the question was how long it would last, and by what kind of reaction it was likely to be followed.
8 But her will-power seemed to have spent itself in a last great effort, and she was lost in the blank reaction which follows on an unwonted expenditure of energy.
9 It was not till she entered her own door that she felt the reaction of a deeper loneliness.
10 THE greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.
11 Public sentiment has had a slight "reaction" though not sufficient to stop the crusade of lawlessness and lynching.
12 Till the reaction, when he found he had been made ridiculous.
13 And in real grief, tormented by her own double consciousness and reaction, she began to weep.
14 Harsh feelings produce harsh usage, and this by reaction quenches the sentiments that gave it birth.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 15 In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
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