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There are hundreds of such pictures stored in my mind, each stamped upon some sensitive particle of the brain, that cannot be obliterated, and each of which the mind can recall at will.
Wagner's book, though first published in Paris, had a larger circulation in the United States than in any other nation not because our people have wandered farther than others into artificial social forms, but because they are sensitive to high ideals and free to reject harmful customs.
And, oh, the happiness of sitting at her feet, under the green shadows of that old elm tree! The light touch of her soft fingers on his brow thrilled him to his heart's core; the sweet sound of her voice in his ears filled his soul with music; the earnest gaze of her beautiful dark eyes sent electric shocks of joy through all his sensitive frame. Ishmael was intensely happy.
And yet impressions recurred to her of another kind of a sensitive, almost fierce delicacy a shrinking from the ugly or merely physical facts of life, as of one who had suffered some torment in connection with them. Janet's eyes followed the curly brown head as its possessor came slowly back from the gate.
If they had known his shy, sensitive nature a little better, they would have understood that he was infinitely more suited for the solitary and peaceful lot in life which he had chosen, than to become a unit in the turbulent and greedy crowd that is struggling through all the ages up the slippery slopes of the temple of that greatest of our gods Success.
Nothing is small for children, especially for a sensitive child like Augustin. Their sensitiveness and their imagination exaggerate all things out of due measure. In this matter, also, schoolmasters often go wrong. They do not know how to handle delicate organizations.
"Oh, dad!... that's just too good for anything! You met your match at last.... You know you always boasted of your drop of English blood.... And you're sensitive about your big nose!" "He must be over seventy," growled Anderson, as if seeking for some excuse to palliate his restraint. "I'm mad but it was funny." The working of his face finally set in the huge wrinkles of a laugh.
Between two such sensitive people differences might last a lifetime, unless one could be persuaded to take the first step. Do be generous! A woman is privileged to be a little obstinate, it is always said. Overlook the fault, and persuade her to let bygones be bygones. There was an involuntary affectedness in Mrs Yule's speech which repelled Reardon.
Round it was and smooth, save for the small, well-trimmed mustache above the beautifully moulded mouth and chin sensitive yet firm. But above all, the splendid eyes! Eyes of uncertain color that seemed to Phoebe mirrors of universal life, yet just now full of a perplexed admiration. For she was herself the centre of a picture well fitted to arrest a poet's attention.
Himself highly imaginative and keenly sensitive, he realized with what depth of horror the girl anticipated a return to her home and friends after the childish escapade which had culminated, even through no fault of hers, in criminal tragedy of the most sordid sort.
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