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I shall never forget it; there was that intense expression of searching anxiety, as if he sought to trace the outlines of some visionary spirit as it receded before him.
Everyone we meet speaks the same language; even if we were to go up to a stranger to ask a question we are tolerably sure that he would understand us and answer politely. We have cold days and warm ones, but the sun is never too hot for us to go out in the middle of the day, and the cold never so intense as to freeze our noses and make them fall off.
"Unless Clarence shoots him," submitted Rachael. A look of intense anxiety clouded Mrs. Haviland's eyes. "I believe he would," she said, in a wretched whisper, with a cautious glance about. "He might," his wife said seriously. "If ever it comes to that, we shall simply have to keep them apart. You see Billy the clever little devil " "Oh, Rachael, DON'T use such words!" said the church woman.
Povey, had an instinct to object, but they could not object, somehow they did not seem to get an opportunity to object; they were carried away on the torrent, and after all, their excitement and pleasure in the exceeding romantic novelty of existence were just as intense and nearly as ingenuous as their son's.
This region is now robbed of some of its terrors by the completion of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, which touches Death Valley at the old Amargosa Borax Works. At this period of the world's progress, when so many marvellous inventions are taking place, one can scarcely realize the intense interest that was awakened by the first discoveries made in the New World.
When the lesson was finished, she slipped from the piano stool with a sigh of intense relief. She started to run out of doors; but her mother detained her. "You may go to your room for an hour," she said, gently but gravely, "and stay there all alone. That will help you to remember to try harder tomorrow to have a good music lesson."
Never before did the President show himself more tactful or more brilliant in repartee. Surrounded by twenty or thirty men, headed by Senator Lodge, who hated him with a bitterness that was intense, the President, with quiet courtesy, parried every blow aimed at him. No question, no matter how pointed it was, seemed to disturb his serenity.
It's the same I'll do for yourself if you ever come to starvation point when I've got a crust to spare." Charmed beyond measure at hearing their native tongue from the mouth of a foreigner, the stare of the whole party became more intense, and for a few moments they actually ceased to chew a sure sign that they were, so to speak, transfixed with interest.
Already the poor man saw himself crowned, by the might of his arm, Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.
A longing to own it takes possession of you, gently at first, as though it were timid, but growing, becoming intense, irresistible. "And the dealers seem to guess, from your ardent gaze, your secret and increasing longing. "I bought this piece of furniture and had it sent home at once. I placed it in my room.
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