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The muscular and digestive functions are acutely disordered; the rapid wasting of the flesh demonstrate the absorbents are excited.
The tendency of all emotions is to become weaker by repetition, or to be less acutely felt the oftener they are experienced.
They leave our churches, not because conscience is relaxed, but because it is acutely sensitive, and because they would keep it unsullied.
It accentuates, without misrepresenting acutely, the attitude taken up by very many Englishmen and Englishwomen on the subject of golf.
Withal, he had a tender heart acutely responsive to indigestion and closely identified with the political history of this state.
I was suffering from malaria very acutely, and the high levels at which we had been travelling also affected me grievously.
Lying lazily in his steamer-chair, with the sun-dazzled vacancy of ocean before him, the bigness of life came acutely home to him.
Deep in his mind, he was struggling toward wakefulness, acutely aware he should flee but unable to make his exhausted body respond.
Passionate and acutely sensitive, she yet seems never to think of antagonizing her affliction or to falter in her unconscious fortitude.
And women were acutely aware of this change in their prospects, and many of them expressed the situation with engaging frankness.
"Thanks, sir, I will," replied the flight-sub, who after the heated atmosphere of the stoke-hold was feeling the cold acutely.
She never instructed or held anything over him; he would have been acutely sensitive to any air of superiority, and immediately antagonized.
A list of creative artists that did not suffer acutely from this defect could only be compiled by creative artists themselves.
Leonie shook her head mournfully, feeling unconsciously but acutely the penalty of her sex for the first time in her life.
He must, however, to have his chance of success, be acutely besides calmly perceptive, a reader of features, audacious at the proper moment.
What he did feel instantly, and acutely, was a premonition of involuntary intervention, on his own part, between father and child.
This ostracism was more acutely defined when the Little Mother one morning called her flock into her room for a conference.
Tense and silent and acutely vital, she stood beside Emil, an expression of all that is baffling and mysterious in woman.
It is easy to discover that Ibsen, from his sixth to his twentieth year, suffered acutely from moral and intellectual distemper.
Acutely conscious also of his own individuality, instead of effacing it he made his work the vehicle and expression of that individuality.
Sagittarius assumed a look of reverence, and the Prophet realized, more acutely than ever, that even well-born young women can be inquisitive.
Chump's evident surprise, and doubt of the honesty of the change in her manner, caused Arabella very acutely to feel its dishonesty.
There was no sound, and yet he could acutely feel that presence; insistently his nerves tingled the warning of another's nearness.
Wood, suffering acutely, was carried down to the camp, where they remained twelve days, subsisting on the bear Wilson had killed.
Browning, like Goldsmith, seeks ultimately to be just and impartial, but he does it by endeavoring to feel acutely every kind of partiality.
More and more acutely was he coming to feel the futility, the crass, absurd presumption of what he had come back to undertake.
When eczema sets in acutely, with general feverish disturbance, cooling medicines are required, and the help of the doctor becomes necessary.
An immense abundance of snow masked the world, snow that made them regret acutely they had not equipped themselves with ski.
It has removed from the field of discussion and possible danger a question liable to become more acutely accentuated with each passing year.
Indeed, so acutely must everyone bear these alternations in mind, that to remark on them is almost to incur the guilt of commonplace.
The ear in man and in animals is acutely ticklish, the adequate stimulus being any foreign body, especially a buzzing, insect-like contact.
Although he was receiving complimentary letters from all quarters and from people he had never even heard of, he seemed acutely unhappy.
He asked Margaret one day when he had found her worn out, suffering acutely from headache, and in a very depressed state.
Acutely awake, while the other occupants of the compartment enjoyed a happy unconsciousness, he looked at the huddled carcasses that surrounded him.
The arms which held her had not relaxed their hold, and she stirred restlessly, suddenly acutely conscious of their embrace.
Alex looked at them too, quite unseeing of their glittering magnificence, but acutely conscious that every one was waiting for her first word.
He often read character acutely, though his confidence in men sometimes deceived him, and again and again he was the victim of informers.
He perfectly understood the destiny of England, judged the European situation very acutely, and spoke of his son in a most reasonable way.
Although I had said little about the contemptuous treatment I had received from Leonie during the past week, I had felt it acutely.
There is withal a good-humored satire, not free from youthful pathos, permeated by sympathy and a personal note of an experience acutely felt.
A person having an ear acutely perceptive to the nice distinctions of sounds, may, by a little practice, imitate many sounds with accuracy.
Why did the recollection of his chivalry and generosity seem to make her feel so much more acutely the misery of her life?
It is those who have loved most deeply who recognize most acutely this always pathetic and often terrifying isolation of the soul.
The dry dust sifted into his nostrils and peppered his eyes so that he was beginning to suffer acutely from the inflammation.
Stella made no observation, but continued to play, and Michael, now acutely irritated, rushed to the piano and slammed down the lid.
The ground took a slight dip at this juncture, then rose abruptly up for about seventy or eighty feet like an acutely slanting roof.
Her inchoate look of a violated slave, whose fulfillment lies in her further and further violation, made his nerves quiver with acutely desirable sensation.
The meanness in the voice, the deadly timbre of it, warned him subconsciously rather than acutely, and he stared at the speaker.
This was a painful sight to us, who felt acutely for our starving soldiery, who began to experience the most pinching want.
Mackay carefully cut out the splintered wood with the point of his sheath-knife, an acutely painful operation; but the patient never winced.
It is those who have loved most deeply who recognize most acutely this always pathetic and often terrifying isolation of the soul.
They demanded long prayers and two long sermons each Sabbath from their minister, usually on doctrinal points, which they acutely criticized.
He talked acutely and intelligently, however, on this subject, and gave me a clear idea of the discoveries made in Indian antiquities in that region.
They demanded long prayers and two long sermons each Sabbath from their minister, usually on doctrinal points, which they acutely criticized.
He was acutely aware of a strained, nervous note in her voice, as of one who is confronted by an undertaking calling for considerable fortitude.
Flattening himself against the door like the wraith of a man, his keen eyes searched the streets, his acutely sensitive ears listened intently.
More acutely than ever he was conscious of the horror of his room: he felt his loneliness and wretchedness: but he faced them.
He listened acutely for another instant, and then with long, noiseless strides made his way down his deserted side of the street.
He was very jealous of his reputation, acutely sensitive to criticism, and envious to the last degree of any public approbation bestowed on others.
But while thus looking acutely forward to future eventualities in one direction, Stradivari was no less careful to avoid reducing his model too much.
He stood still a moment, listening acutely; then took off his shoes very quietly, and moved with noiseless foot toward the scuttle.
Vargas felt acutely his position in being thus forced to belie his promises of clemency, but he was a soldier, trained to obey orders.
He had got upon his feet and was standing before me, an acutely attractive figure of a well-built, well-groomed man in faultless evening dress.
Suddenly, as I sat there ruminating, I became acutely aware of something white on the ledge of the topmost window in the eastern tower.
She was acutely conscious of strange emotions, which she instinctively concealed; hers was a nature of unexpected impulses, tragic possibilities, baffling secrets.
That part of the foliage which sends up the flower is arranged in rosette form, the leaves being stout, flat, and acutely lance-shaped.
He lay on the knoll, rifle clutched fast in his hands, acutely sensitive to every sound, to every hazy shadow of the night.
It is acutely demonstrated by all who are looking about for the means of indulging in a life of idleness at the cost of others.
She mourned over the shameful infatuation of Eudora, and she acutely felt the degradation attached to her own accidental share in the scene.
What puzzled and annoyed him beyond measure was that the more oblivious of him she seemed, the more acutely aware of her he became.
He knew her well enough, and guessed at her still more acutely, to know that she was quite capable of so much of reticence.
She is acutely sensitive, just now abnormally so; and, unfortunately for you, she was at the time of her marriage seriously out of health.
In every tingling nerve of her she was acutely conscious of his proximity and of some rapidly rising tide of emotion mounting within him.
I have a notion, that every time he laid on that cat, he felt it as acutely as the culprit on whom it was deservedly inflicted.
But timidity restrained him, and, besides, a toothache, which, when the sharpest pain had passed, was felt yet at moments acutely enough.
Yet he was acutely conscious of her as he had seen her out there, reeling from the tables with loose hair and torn bodice.
During the intervals of this fearful suffering he was acutely conscious, but he invariably forgot everything again when the merciful unconsciousness came back.
There was something acutely disquieting in the backward folding of his ears, the quiver of his sinews, the reluctant manner of his stepping.
I spoke with feeling, for I had once been implored to use my influence to part a couple who were, to all appearances, acutely incompatible.
This being one of the most acutely distressing features of the entire experience I shall forego further details, merely stating that they used a rope.
And whilst the vision lasted I was acutely conscious of that innumerable concourse of kneeling forms below, all struggling upwards to the Cross.
It has been acutely remarked of him that he was not versatile; in truth versatility in the face of opposition was not among his qualities.
She longed with all her soul to suffer acutely; yet she could feel nothing within this colorless void in which she was imprisoned.
He could not stay, yet if he took himself off in any undignified manner, he felt acutely that they would certainly laugh at him.
It is an acutely humiliating fact that there exists no man too ugly, too foolish, too brutal, too conceited and too vile to find a wife.
Though my arms and back were presently acutely painful, I went on clambering down the sheer descent with as quick a motion as possible.
This terrible martyrdom goes on with scarcely any alleviation for three or four years, the poor victim to fashion suffering acutely all the time.
Clearly he is not always, or commonly, wrestling with ultimate metaphysical problems; he busies himself, acutely but not metaphysically, with the wisdom of life.
This time she felt it more acutely than ever, and since it was now reinforced by his physical imminence, it seemed harder to bear.
Not much wonder if Geoffrey himself, suffering acutely under the disease, knew not, or refused to avow to himself, any knowledge of the symptoms.
He received me quite politely and hospitably, but with every moment that passed I grew more acutely conscious of something deterrent behind his courtesy.
For the Swan, the wounded bird feels not so acutely the arrow that pierces, as she that look of recognition between the cousins!
He merely and acutely wanted to tell, so that he might see the relief and the joyous anticipation on his son's enigmatic and melancholy face.
I don't know whether you suffer acutely from the narrowness of your own means; but if you do, I dare say you shun rich men.
In one sense of the word you would be right; there are others who suffer more acutely than I, but few who suffer more unjustly.
It is no eucalyptus that ever hangs its leaves; it is a sensitive plant, wincing, closing, at a trifle, feeling acutely, but not for long.
No one dies of the complaint, however; they do not even suffer very acutely, but they fume because she is not other than she is.
When they departed he missed them so acutely for a few days that he was almost melancholy; then, by rapid gradations, forgot them.
I got but one whiff of it; but it gave me a painful sensation at the bridge of the nose which lasted acutely for some days.
The nervous tension, however, was so complete physically that all her faculties were acutely awake; very early she became conscious of a distant footstep.