of Exrerience

And then I thought that what I was experiencing for a few minutes was the daily portion of these laddies who were all aboot me- not for a few minutes, but for days and weeks and months at a time. – A Minstrel In France by Harry Lauder

Even if the feelings of ease in his society which at the moment she was experiencing were to last, she had no particular wish to have him always about the house, nor present at every meal. – Burning Sands by Arthur Weigall

I think I was not fully aware how near I had been to loving Harold Beecham until experiencing the sense of loss which stole over me on holding in my hand the acceptance of his dismissal. – My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

Romance, indeed, does not consist by any means so much in experiencing adventures as in being ready for them. – Varied Types by G. K. Chesterton

This is evidently an incorrect application of the word same; for the feeling which I had yesterday is gone, never to return; what I have to- day is another feeling, exactly like the former perhaps, but distinct from it; and it is evident that two different persons cannot be experiencing the same feeling, in the sense in which we say that they are both sitting at the same table. – A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill