1 With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed.
2 I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent.
3 Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.
4 Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.
5 And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made.
6 By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference.
7 From the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me.
8 I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank.
9 Before commencing, it is but fair to warn you that the story will sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears; but stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips.
10 I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest; therefore I now pass a space of eight years almost in silence: a few lines only are necessary to keep up the links of connection.