1 But tonight every fibre in her body shrank from Lily's nearness: it was torture to listen to her breathing, and feel the sheet stir with it.
2 The touch of her hand, the moving softness of her look, thrilled a vulnerable fibre in Rosedale.
3 The form of the Huron trembled in every fibre, and he raised his arm on high, but dropped it again with a bewildered air, like one who doubted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 4 As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.
5 From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
6 Upstairs, in his own room, Dorian Gray was lying on a sofa, with terror in every tingling fibre of his body.
7 Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 8 She entered the house, which now she hated with every fibre in her body.
9 Now Sears, whom we met next lolling under the chubby oak-trees, was of quite different fibre.
10 Her fibres had been softened by suffering, and the sudden glimpse into his mocked and broken life disarmed her contempt for his weakness.
11 The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. 12 The fibres in the upper and lower layers, are long and horizontal; those of the middle one, very short, and running crosswise between the outside layers.
13 The story of your romantic origin, as related to me by mamma, with unpleasing comments, has naturally stirred the deeper fibres of my nature.
14 Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
15 When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE