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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Vividly interesting stories novels, if you like in the language they had to learn. Not short pieces, or `elegant extracts; but, good, long tales of thrilling adventure and well worked-up plots, whose interest, and the desire to know what was coming next, would make them read on and stammer out the sense, until they reached the denouement.
The dull glaze which seemed to veil the outer world from the drunkard's pupils shifted suddenly with such a look of direct horror that Demorest was fain to turn away his own. But the veil mercifully returned, and with it Dick's worked-up sense of injury. Nobody was there not "a shole."
His frankly melodramatic novels like "A Terrible Temptation" are among the best of their kind, and in "The Cloister and the Hearth" he performed the major literary feat of reconstructing, with the large imagination and humanity which obliterate any effect of archeology and worked-up background, a period long past.
I had a sure-enough nibble right then, and if you don't look out, I'll be pulling in a dandy fish." "Wake me up when you do, and I'll start in. You get 'em worked-up like, and then I'll show you how to do the trick. Up to now I've just been playing possum, you know, but look out whenever I do get going."
What became of Aunt Irene? Is she still going? He seems awfully worked-up about something to-night." Emily laid her finger on her lips, but the word Irene had caught James' ear. "What's that?" he said, staying a piece of mutton close to his lips. "Who's been seeing her? I knew we hadn't heard the last of that." "Now, James," said Emily, "eat your dinner. Nobody's been seeing anybody."
"Wasn't it strange that she should come in and seem so worked-up over the mention of Sea Horse Island?" spoke Belle. "It was," admitted Cora. "We shall have to find out about it later she was on the verge of telling us, when she fainted. But, girls, if I am to go get Jack, it's time I started. Are you coming?" "Suppose we go in our car," suggested Bess.
The pleasures of the senses are so far from wanting the oratorical arts to recommend them that we stand in need of all the powers of eloquence to moderate and restrain rather than stir up their influence. But the work of getting anybody to cheerfully undertake the monotony and drudgery of education must be effected not by pay merely, but by a skilfully worked-up appeal to the emotions as well.
If in this crucial instance such a Government were seen to be intolerably weak, if it was found to be at the mercy of the first powerful minority which seized a worked-up occasion to rebel, what they had learnt to think the most hopeful agency for the uplifting of man everywhere would for ages to come have proved a failure.
She sought about in her mind for some way out of the difficulty and could find none. She grew more and more painfully crimson, and wished she could cry. A well worked-up passion of tears would have come in very usefully just then, but somehow she could not turn the passion on. And a horrid sense of incompetency and failure began to steal over her an awful foreboding of defeat.
A Greek dramatist would probably have had recourse to a long and elaborately worked-up "messenger-speech," a pathetic recitation. That was the method best suited to the conditions, and to what may be called the prevailing tempo, of the Greek theatre. I am far from saying that it was a bad method: no method is bad which holds and moves an audience.
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