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You see in their Countenances they are at home, and in quiet Possession of the present Instant, as it passes, without desiring to quicken it by gratifying any Passion, or prosecuting any new Design. These are the Men formed for Society, and those little Communities which we express by the Word Neighbourhoods.
Geraldine's heart began to quicken and she put a guard upon her manner lest eagerness should crop out in spite of her. "It is early for shade," she replied. "The sun is pleasant. Everything is so bare about here," she added wearily. "I wish I could find some flowers." Then it was that Mrs.
The State paid him no salary for being trustee of his own or other people's money HE DID ALL THAT FOR NOTHING. Therein lay the whole case against nationalisation owners of private property were unpaid, and yet had every incentive to quicken up the flux. Under nationalisation just the opposite! In a country smarting from officialism he felt that he had a strong case.
The marvel of drugs has always been great to my mind; you can madden a man, calm a man, make him incredibly strong and alert or a helpless log, quicken this passion and allay that, all by means of drugs, and here was a new miracle to be added to this strange armoury of phials the doctors use!
When the "dry-light" of the understanding is penetrated by the liquid light of the emotions, it becomes both light and heat, powerful to vivify, quicken, and move all things. In woman, the scepter of her chief power springs from the affections.
And thus reading must be for him an attempt to refine and quicken his insight into the human mind, working in the more delicate regions of art. He must study expression and personality; he must keep his spirit sensitive to any hint of truth or beauty, any generous and ardent intuition, any grace and seemliness of thought.
For in my heart such sentiments for such a maid as this tenderness, consciousness of some subtlety about her that attracted me should have no place. There was every reason why I should pity her and offer aid; none why her grey eyes should hold my own; none why the frail body of her in her rags should quicken any pulse of mine; none why my nearness to her should stop my heart and breath.
It may be enjoyed by them when they wait upon God in silence, or retire into the light of the Lord, and receive those divine impressions which quicken and spiritualize the internal man. It may be enjoyed by them in all their several acts of obedience to the words and doctrines of our Saviour.
"For a man who has been a great lawyer," Lord Penarvon declared, "Guerdon is the most uncertain and unpunctual of men. One never knows when to expect him." "He was to have arrived yesterday," Lady Mary remarked. "We sent to the station twice." "I suppose," Rochester said, "that even to gratify the impatience of an expectant house-party, it is not possible to quicken the slow process of the law.
"And I very naturally took my way down to where I expected to find our lady at work in the re-kindling process." "Well?" "Sure enough, there she was, kindling the fire with a vengeance." "With what?" I asked. "With a vengeance?" "Yes, with a vengeance to my pocket. She had the oil can in her hands, and was pouring its contents freely into the furnace, in order to quicken combustion.
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