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There was a very genuine grief, though none knew Marjory as I had known her; the more emotional wept, the older ones indulged in little semi-pious conventional comments, oddly foreign to their usual tone; all even the most thoughtless felt the same hush and awe overtake them. I could not cry; I felt nothing, except a dull rage at my own insensibility. Marjory was dead and I had no tears.
The suddenness of the shock, and the full belief, at the moment, that he had sent a bullet into my brains, made me fall, and produced a temporary confusion of ideas, amounting to insensibility." "From which you are happily recovered. Thank Heaven that, after all, he is not such a villain as this act would have made him."
In falling the block caught the ankle of the youth, who fell with a piercing shriek to the ground, where he lay in a state of insensibility. At this a tall bearded man, with heavy fetters on his strong limbs, sprang to the young man's side, went down on his knees, and seized his hand. "Oh!
When the evidence touched on his wife's illness and death, he was deeply affected, and covered his face with his hands. Self-possession, in his dreadful position, signified, to their minds, the stark insensibility of a heartless and shameless criminal, and afforded in itself a presumption, not of innocence, but of guilt.
Bennet, and therefore, instead of making any answer, she went on as before. "I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it." "What should not you mind?" "I should not mind anything at all." "Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility." "I never can be thankful, Mr.
He was a tall man, lithe and sinewy rather than muscular, but he had a handsome, Patrician face; and despite his condition of insensibility, or perhaps because of it, he seemed strangely out of place in the predicament in which he was now discovered.
Further, the reason why there are this stolid insensibility and this non-use of capacity lies here: 'Ye reason about the bread. The absorption of our minds and efforts and time with material things, that perish with the using, come in between us and our apprehension of Christ's teaching.
The savage insensibility of Jovian appears to have aggravated the hardships of these unhappy fugitives. They were seated, however, in a new-built quarter of Amida; and that rising city, with the reenforcement of a very considerable colony, soon recovered its former splendor, and became the capital of Mesopotamia.
Had I awakened in heaven would you have been there, too?" The Judge sank back into a moment's insensibility, and the son sat there sobbing piteously.
And there could have been no insensibility to literature in one who, as a boy, could sit for hours reading Shakespeare, Milton, Scott, and Byron; who greatly admired some of the Odes of Horace; and who, in later years, on board the "Beagle," when only one book could be carried on an expedition, chose a volume of Milton for his companion.
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