Too weak to scrutinize thoroughly the mystery, I tried to settle it by saying it was a mistake, a dream, a fever-fit; and yet I knew there could be no mistake, and that I was not sleeping, and I believed I was sane.
One evening—and I was not delirious: I was in my sane mind, I got up—I dressed myself, weak and shaking.
I always thought him sane enough until today, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a straitjacket.
"I wish everybody was as sane as I am," said Peg scornfully.
" "Is she sane?
The days were gone when people could be greatly wrought upon by their faith, still less change it; the Catholics were formidable because they would lay hold of government and property, and burn men alive; not because any sane and honest parishioner of St Ogg's could be brought to believe in the Pope.
" Mr Tulliver took a draught, swallowed it slowly, and shook his head in a melancholy manner, conscious of exemplifying the truth that a perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
Cadwallader, first to herself and afterwards to her husband, "I throw her over: there was a chance, if she had married Sir James, of her becoming a sane, sensible woman.
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
And Michael Angelo is sane and healthy.
He felt always the furious hatred that must seize a man condemned when he compared himself with the doctor, sane and healthy, who had the inestimable privilege of life.
He did not seem quite sane.
To the Mole this much was plain: the fit, or attack, had passed away, and had left him sane again, though shaken and cast down by the reaction.
Barney opened it with the air of a man thankful to find some safe, sane thing to do.
It is most sane and sunly And more it cannot die Than all the sky which only Is higher than the sky , , , .
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.
I was so afraid of losing him, the only way I could stay sane was to dance.
His general advice to those running up against extreme narcissists is to "remain sane and reasonable" rather than engaging them in "battles they'll always win.
