Both the men, hardened as they were by duties which soon sap the sensibilities, started and turned as pale as the speaker himself.
But man is a desperately conservative creature, and the extravagant novelty of this outrage upon his purse distressed his sensibilities.
Hence, his energies and his sensibilities are all expanded, and what he feels he seeks to tell in various accents, and in different ways.
My pride (Heaven help me, I was brought up like a gentlewoman, and I have sensibilities that are not blunted even yet!)--my pride got the better of me, and I left my place.
Much harm, much blunting of fine sensibilities, much destruction of that delicate modesty which is the priceless dower of young girlhood, comes of such jesting and joking where it is permitted without restraint or reproof.
But if the community would endeavor to educate the masses, day by day knowledge and sciences would increase, the understanding would be broadened, the sensibilities developed, customs would become good, and morals normal; in one word, in all these classes of perfections there would be progress, and there would be fewer crimes.