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...I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the worl...

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...he eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one partic... ...n one of his own high power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him... ...ering and driving from the country of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in s... ... where any man suc ceeded in braving it with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the perpetrators. For some years the organ... ...ence, but referred it to the As sizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was ... ...ere interested — white, with a black bar across the tail.” Ryder quivered with emotion. “Oh, sir,” he cried, “can you tell me where it went to?” “It c... ...e.” The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his brow, set his lips ti...

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...sign, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions....

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...wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confi- dences, and private emotions. Besides which, all that I could say of the Story, to any purpose,... ... in danger of wearying the reader with personal confidences and pri- vate emotions. Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any pur... ...e and stopped myself. For good, too; though, in consequence of my previous emotions, I was still occasionally seized with a stormy sob. After we had j... ...bserved you, within a few minutes, urging your juniors on to every sort of outrage against me, you are mistaken. I don t give myself the trouble of ... ...es, and the feeling with which I regarded him, un- dutiful if I showed the emotion which dis- tressed me. He was very angry with Traddles, and said he... ...n her own mind that she had, and it was all the same to her. The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of... ...ere are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learn- ing. Learning ain t for me. ... ...m me with a shock, like a ball fired from a rifle: but the image of Agnes, outraged by so much as a thought of this red- headed animal s, remained in ... ...one. I do not wish to revive the memory of past differ- ences, or of past outrages. I have received out- rages from a person a female I am sorry to s...

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...iolent posses sion of her said cousin, actually married him. THAT similar outrages are of constant occurrence, not only in the capital and its nei... ...y never fail to take it up directly, and to express by their looks the great outrage which their feelings have sustained. Perhaps this is their chief... ...rs, and, sitting beside her, had a favourable oppor tunity of observing her emotions. We have a shrewd suspicion that, in the very beginning, and in ... ...exhibits it in great tri umph as an extraordinary variety. The old couple’s emotion at these tokens of remembrance occasions quite a pathetic scene, ...

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...nother basement; and a thick police constable, looking a stranger to every emotion, as if he too were part of inorganic nature, surging apparently out... ...dread which re- sembled the immobility of profound attention. “A series of outrages,” Mr Vladimir continued calmly, “ex- ecuted here in this country; ... ... cleared his throat, but his heart failed him, and he said nothing. “These outrages need not be especially sanguinary,” Mr Vladimir went on, as if del... ...ally since so many presidents have been as- sassinated. Now let us take an outrage upon—say a church. Horrible enough at first sight, no doubt, and ye... ...ry and anarchist in inception, there would be fools enough to give such an outrage the character of a reli- gious manifestation. And that would detrac... ...p- erty seems to them an indestructible thing. Y ou can’t count upon their emotions either of pity or fear for very long. A bomb outrage to have any i... ...n’t count upon their emotions either of pity or fear for very long. A bomb outrage to have any influence on public opinion now must go beyond the inte... ...tly to be classed amongst the marvels of science, induced in Mr V erloc an emotional state of dread and exasperation tending to express itself in viol... ...e its knowledge ever so accurate. The only thing that matters to us is the emotional state of the masses. Without emotion there is no action.” He paus...

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...ompre- hensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. But I will ... ...uch in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic. In due course a... ...I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their pas- sion seems ... ... a hefty fellow, but I did not say anything. It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct... ...d condition, and I was innocently aston- ished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play ac- cording to her n... ...of others. It throws a shadow of in- sincerity over their most deeply felt emotions. 40 The Moon and Sixpence It was known where Strickland was stayi... ...oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage. I re- member saying to him: “Look here, if everyone acted like you... ...that one was more amused by the ridiculous figure cut by the Dutchman than outraged by Strickland’s brutal treatment of him. “I hope I shall never see... ...ickland again; it was a little humiliating to forgive so easily insults so outrageous, and he wished me to be present at the reconciliation on which h...

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...nd insults he bore, at the moment, without resentment; deep but suppressed emotion rendered him insensible to their sting; but it was afterward, when ... ...“I shall never forget his first speech at the convention—the extraordinary emotion it 11 Frederick Douglas excited in my own mind—the powerful impres... ...y so intensely as at that moment; certainly, my perception of the enormous outrage which is inflicted by it on the godlike nature of its victims, was ... ...simple truth, viz: that I received the tidings of her death with no strong emotions of sorrow for her, and with very little regret for myself on accou... ...ING A WARE OF HIS WORDS—THE SUPPOSED OBTUSE- NESS OF SLAVE-CHILDREN—BRUTAL OUTRAGE— DRUNKEN OVERSEER—SLAVEHOLDER’S IMPA- TIENCE—WISDOM OF APPEALING TO... ...led to by the helpless against an aggres- sor, and he could himself commit outrages, deep, dark and nameless. Yet he was not by nature worse than othe... ...agement of a drove of mules. In a fit of drunken madness, he committed the outrage which brought the young woman in question down to my old master’s f... ...and, when untied. From my heart I pit- ied her, and—child though I was—the outrage kindled in me a feeling far from peaceful; but I was hushed, terrif... ...many of them attain astonishing proficiency in discerning the thoughts and emotions of slaves. They have to deal not with earth, wood, or stone, but w...

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... was so busy writing that evidently she did not perceive him. Unreasonable emotions descended upon Mr. Lewisham— emotions that are unaccountable on th... ...became no longer reason- able and disciplined but a purely imaginative and emotional person. Music, for instance, carried him away, and particu- larly... ... in unison whirled him off from almost any state of mind to a fine massive emotional- 16 Love and Mr. Lewisham ity. And the evening service at Whortl... ...tending not to have seen her. His whole being was suddenly irradiated with emotion. The hands hold- ing his book gripped it very tightly. He did not g... ...and 31 H G Wells called her Miss Smith, and so escaped this unaccountable emotional crisis…. The whispering of the rain about them sank and died, and... ... things to do. In the first instance he was penitent immediately after the outrage, but in the second he added insult to injury by going across the ro...

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...tary independence of the British trident, or should even offer a transient outrage to her sovereign flag. Such a tempestas in matulâ might raise a bri... ...ether they were first sought and won with more circumstances of injury and outrage, or dismissed with more insult and levity. The one whom he treated ... ...by the infliction of another and a greater. The monotony of wickedness and outrage becomes at 61 Thomas de Quincey length fatiguing to the coarsest a... ...its. It seems, however, that, accord- ing to the general course of violent emotions, the rebound of high spirits was in proportion to his first despon... ...on, the emperor was substantially liberated from all control. Vexations or outrages upon the populace were not such to the army. It was but rarely tha... ...t such to the army. It was but rarely that the soldier participated in the emotions of the citizen. And thus, being effectually without check, the mos... ...hat affects us on the first reading as a prodigy or anomaly in the frantic outrages of the early Cæsars—falls within the natural bounds of in- telligi... ...sts, the elderly gentleman whirls out of the room in the same transport of emotion with which he entered it; the panic-struck visitors are requested b...

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...he clutch of his arms was eloquent. He was the playground of un- speakable emotions. These, you know, were real Magics. Then, with a start, I discover... ...necessary amount of luggage in your hand, and float up in the air—” In his emotion he dropped the tack-hammer within an ace of my head. “By Jove!” he ... ...iceman in Hampstead Road, and an atrocious assault upon a woman. All these outrages were committed between half-past twelve and a quarter to two in th... ...s about him, hurried back in dire con- fusion to Vincey to tell him of the outrage that had come upon him. But the brain of Vincey was now closed agai... ...’t belong to ‘im. There! I couldn’t tell you ‘arf ‘e said. ‘E went on most outrageous. I stood up to ‘im about it, just to dror ‘im out. ‘Wouldn’t you... ...ver thought of that I got regular wild—I tell you, I cursed. I got sort of outrageous. I didn’t think of dividing it like for the minute, and even the... ...o believe it, even now.” 145 H G Wells Miss Winchelsea suppressed Fanny’s emotions with a little smile, and the lady who was called “Ma” explained to... ...is incident— a touch of refinement to mere chatting. Fanny expressed a few emotions, and Helen interpolated a few sensible remarks, but the bulk of th... ...’70 buildings, and that criminal advertisement that glares upon the Forum, outraged their aesthetic feelings unspeakably; but that was only part of th...

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...t of youth, and bred A fervent love of rigorous discipline.— Alas! such high emotion touched not me. Look was there none within these walls to shame 3... ... where first he rose. Enough of humble arguments; recall, My Song! those high emotions which thy voice 480 Has heretofore made known; that bursting for... ...in honest truth, I looked for something that I could not find, Affecting more emotion than I felt; For ’tis most certain, that these various sights, Ho... ... us oft In thought or conversation, public acts, 545 And public persons, and emotions wrought RESIDENCE IN FRANCE 159 Within the breast, as ever vary... ...e of one paramount mind Would have abashed those impious crests—have quelled Outrage and bloody power, and—in despite Of what the People long had been... ...uous pains Would fall together with its parent tree. 265 What, then, were my emotions, when in arms Britain put forth her free born strength in league... ...dom stifled, and her justice scared, 355 Her frenzy only active to extol Past outrages, and shape the way for new, Which no one dared to oppose or miti...

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...thing will always stir 11 H. G . Wells in me at that memory—the tremulous emotion of that ad- venture. Nettie was dressed in white, her hair went off... ... who would condemn me altogether as having been a very silly, postur- ing, emotional hobbledehoy indeed and quite like my faded photograph. And when I... ...e world anywhere but half-truths, hasty assump- tions, hallucinations, and emotions. Nothing… . I know it seems incredible, that already some of the y... ...roubles. Nettie. Rawdon. My mother. Gabbitas. Nettie… Suddenly I came upon emotional exhaustion. Some clock was striking midnight. After all, I was yo... ...more than a week. Before that week was over I was wondering with a growing emotion what next would happen between us. I found myself thinking constant... ...ssage of the New Paper, and the monster towered over me, threatening fresh outrages, visibly spitting upon my faultless country’s colors. Somebody had... ...ving Nettie— who loved in different manner both V errall and me—would have outraged the very quintessence of the old convention. In the old days love ...

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...olume One classes,—the purely imaginative, and those which sprang from the emotions of his heart. Among the former may be classed the “Witch of Atlas”... ...he second class is, of course, the more popular, as appeal- ing at once to emotions common to us all; some of these rest on the passion of love; other... ...ore heart-reaching, or more passionate verse, the gentler or more forcible emotions of the soul. A wise friend once wrote to Shelley: ‘You are still v... ...the sky; and the varied phenomena of heaven and earth filled him with deep emotion. He made his study and reading-room of the shad- owed copse, the st... ... _700 That image sleep in death, upon that form Yet safe from the worm’s outrage, let no tear Be shed—not even in thought. Nor, when those hues Are ... ...el. 21 21 21 21 21. ‘Thus she doth equal laws and justice teach T o woman, outraged and polluted long; _1595 Gathering ... ... ‘“To feel the peace of self-contentment’s lot, To own all sympathies, and outrage none, And in the inmost bowers of sense and thought, _3300 Un... ...ng the rest Sate like the Queen of Nations, but in woe, By inbred monsters outraged and oppressed, _4420 T urns to her chainless child for... ...th, My creed should have redeemed me from repenting; But loathed scorn and outrage unrelenting Met love excited by far other seeming Until the end was...

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.... Don’t attempt to deny it. Ye did! Damnable, oh damnable!” He choked with emotion. McT urk’s heel tapped the lawn and he stuttered a little—two sure ... ...ing the rag-carpet before the speckless hearth, and the sofa heaved to the emotions of Beetle. Through the thick glass the figures without showed blue... ...es without showed blue, distorted, and menacing. “I—I protest against this outrage.” King had evidently been running up hill. “The man was entirely wi... ...of a fellow-countryman, the lesson of their race, which is to put away all emotion and entrap the alien at the proper time. So far good. King was impo... ...ame out of the Head’s house, eyes noted that the one was red and blue with emotion as to his nose, and that the other was sweating profusely. That sig... ... inquiry; and—frankly, I think he deserved all he got.” “They deliberately outraged Mason’s best feelings,” said Prout. “A word to me on their part wo... ...ir thoughts clearly to themselves. They felt savagely that they were being outraged by a fat man who considered marbles a game. And so he worked towar... ...as further (I give the barest handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky’s contri-... ...roposition is Rudyard Kipling that the Sixth can’t protect ‘emselves from outrages an’ ravishin’s. Want nursemaids to look after ‘em! We’ve only got ...

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...of this strange exhibi- tion. I therefore, as I could not be accused of an outrage to modesty, permitted myself to maintain what might be in- vidiousl... ...earing this explanation of the accident, Alice gave way to an ungovernable emotion. ‘You see, my dear,’ the vicar addressed his wife, she can do nothi... ... think—”so I weep round her, tearful in her track,” an excellent—’ But the outraged woman, dripping in grievous discomfort above him, made a peremptor... ... interpret many a mythic tale by the facts which lie in your own blood. My emotions have lain altogether dormant in sentimental at- tachment. I have, ... ... Mr. Pollingray was cruelly gentle: an air of ‘I would not intrude on such emotions’; and I height- ened their delusions as much as I could: there was...

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...orgeous and enlivening; for it invested some of the cheerfullest ideas and emotions of which the human mind is susceptible with the external reality o... ...ith Miriam (though the subject was already in both their minds), a ghastly emotion rose up out of the depths of the young Count’s heart. He trembled e... ...a change in Donatello, as his newly acquired power of dealing with his own emotions, and, after a struggle more or less fierce, thrust- ing them down ... ...st thoughts into human language. When we ascend into the higher regions of emotion and spiritual enjoyment, they are only expressible by such grand hi... ...atello, in a low, horrorstricken voice, which grew higher and more full of emotion as he proceeded. “Imagine a fellow creature,—breathing now, and loo... ...as done more towards reconciling the incongruity of Divine Omnipotence and outraged, suffering Humanity, combined in one person, than the theologians ... ...e enough to track a political offender, but are too often blind to private outrage, be it murder or any lesser crime. Kenyon counted little upon their... ...th, she had vanished out of sight. It was terrible to imagine what hideous outrage might have thrust her into that abyss! Then the lover tried to comf...

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...hrobs as violently from trepidation as from the generous impulses of young emotion. I need say nothing of the journey I made with my mother from Paris... ...ht of love. How strange a thing, this first irruption of the keenest human emotion in the heart of a man! I had seen pretty women in other places, but... ...s. In harmony with this reposeful life, and without other ex- citements to emotion than those arising in the family, this scene conveyed to the soul i... ...nd a raging curiosity possessed me to see the owner of this treasure. T wo emotions filled my mind, hatred and fear,—hatred which allowed of no obstac... ...s often fatal. When we were outside the gate, the count said in a voice of emotion, “Madame de Mortsauf is an angel!” The words staggered me. As yet I... ...lent; I know of what you are about to speak,—the first, the last, the only outrage ever offered to me. Never speak to me of that ball. If as a Christi... ...o round her phrases and her elbows; she irritated me by her composure, and outraged my heart with her decorum. Thus she degraded love to a mere need, ... ...urse. From any other woman I should modestly have accepted my defeat; but, outraged at the glowing appear- ance of the heroine who had vowed to die fo...

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...have roused a protest from certain ignorant and voracious readers who want emotions without undergo- ing the generating process, the flower without th... ...e soul may attach to the tumultuous life of feeling, it never sees without emotion the symbols of this Flem- ish nature, where the throbbings of the h... ...oice. If this be so, then a contrary gait ought not to cause less powerful emotion. The slow approach, the dragging step of the coming man might have ... ...s, freaks of cruel vengeance against some fancied rival who wins a glance,—emotions, terrors, unknown to the majority of women, and which ought, there... ...r joyously to her death. Balthazar’s own delicacy had exalted the generous emotions of his wife, and inspired her with an imperious need of giving mor... ...mething may be recov- ered—” “For shame!” said Marguerite. “It would be an outrage on my father. It is not so long since my mother uttered her last wo...

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...t’s unreasonable,” said Isbister, startled at the man’s hysterical gust of emotion. “Drugs are better than that.” “There at any rate is sleep,” repeat... ...e faces that peered into his. He looked at them strangely, full of intense emotion. It seemed they read his eyes. He framed his lips to speak and coul... ...enigmatical word “Ostrog.” All his impressions were vague save the massive emotion of that trampling song. The multitude were beat- ing time with thei... ...’s mind that these also should have swarmed with people. He felt a curious emotion—throbbing—very fast! He stopped again. The guards before him marche... ...m, not twenty inches away. At the time it was but a passing incident of no emotional value, but afterwards it came back to him in his dreams. For this... ...e. “Yahaha, Yahah, Yap! Hear a live paper yelp! Live paper. Yaha! Shocking outrage in Paris. Yahahah! The Parisians exasperated by the black po- lice ... ...seemed chiefly anxious to reassure him that it was “all right.” “But these outrages!” “You cannot have an omelette,” said Asano, “without breaking egg...

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...e?” By that time he had raised his eyebrows too but without any particular emotion. On the contrary he struck me then as ab- solutely imperturbable. “... ...high matters at that— ships, freights, business. In the instability of his emotions man resembles deplorably a monkey. I was disgusted with my thought... ...sence, which, suggesting his brother the merchant, had caused me to become outrageous to myself. For indeed I had preserved some decency of feeling. I... ...een spoken to by a strange man adding to my assurance. I don’t know why an emotional tense- 34 A Smile of Fortune ness should have crept into the sit... ...hat old woman. What if she ordered me to depart? She seemed capable of any outrage. She had snorted once or twice; she was knitting violently. Suddenl... ...s say, with Miss Jacobus, that it is for no good. Y ou seem to believe the outrageous things she says, if you do have a row with her now and then.” Sh... ...d heard once before on her lips, and which thrilled me again with the same emotion: “I would believe you. But what about papa—” “He be hanged!” My emo... ...ill-gotten booty. During that stealthy act I experienced the last touch of emotion in that house, at the thought of the girl I had left sitting there ...

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... cathedral and the worship- pers with her at the same altar. When a strong emotion took possession of Veronique,—and the religious exaltation to which... ...ded herself on receiving the communion must be counted among the strongest emotions of so pure and candid a young creature,—an inward light seemed to ... ...and offered it to his future wife, V eronique felt a rush of conflict- ing emotions; she was suddenly plunged into the ideal and fantastic world of tr... ...hymns of fragrance. Graslin left Veronique that night in the grasp of such emotions. From this time forth, as soon as all Limoges was sleeping, the ba... ...for her babe, some old man wanting bread, I have supplied their needs, the emotions their distress and its relief have caused me do not suffice my sou... ...on- viction than for the satisfaction of opposing the government. “What an outrage,” they said, “to condemn a man because his footprint is the size of...