"Sinking feeling" Quotes from Famous Books
... the hall and went along the passage to Esther's room. As he gently opened the door an odour of drugs or disinfectants met his nostrils, giving him a sinking feeling he had often experienced as a small boy on ... — Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... the room to go down to breakfast. Breakfast would at least alleviate this sinking feeling which was unmanning him. And he could think more briskly after a ... — A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... of the long, dark line through the night, their mysterious disappearance, one by one, as we neared the city, the creepy, hair-raising journey through the dark streets—I shall never forget for the rest of my life the sinking feeling in my abdomen and the throbbing in my head. But I wanted to be there, for ... — Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various |