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They have a curious under-sense of powerlessness, feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them that they could not do or be anything else than God made them; and they see something divine and God-made in every other man they meet, and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
People murmured and smiled, and looked and laughed, but there was an evident embarrassment among them, an under-sense of something like disappointment.
She holds unchallenged the code of Life." Then admiration yielded to the usual under-sense of masculine resentment against feminine intellectuality, and a kind of smouldering wrath and opposition took the place of his former chivalry and the almost tender pleasure he had previously felt in her exceptional genius and ability.
His aspect as of a man disorganized and undone by baffled passion, repelled and disgusted her. Was this her Arthur? her perfect gentleman her gay, courteous, well-behaved darling whose mingled docility and good breeding had, so far, suited both her affection and her love of rule so well? The deep under-sense of disaster which had held her all day, returned upon her in ten-fold strength.
Palmer, are entitled to a circumstantial notice from myself having had so large a share in developing the anarchies of my subsequent dreams, an agency which they accomplished, first, through velocity, at that time unprecedented; they first revealed the glory of motion: suggesting, at the same time, an under-sense, not unpleasurable, of possible though indefinite danger; secondly, through grand effects for the eye between lamp-light and the darkness upon solitary roads; thirdly, through animal beauty and power so often displayed in the class of horses selected for this mail service; fourthly, through the conscious presence of a central intellect, that, in the midst of vast distances, of storms, of darkness, of night, overruled all obstacles into one steady coöperation in a national result.
Before Artois could decide for his natural temper and an under-sense of prudence and contempt pulled different ways the Marchesino suddenly released his arm, leaned over the balcony rail, and looked eagerly down the road. A carriage had just rattled up from the harbor of Santa Lucia only a few yards away. "Ecco!" he exclaimed. "Ecco! But but who is with them?" "Only Gaspare," replied Artois.
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