He was trying with a curious intentness to study her dispassionately, to understand the nature of the charm on which dramatic critics had wasted a wealth of adjectives, and of which he himself was humanly and personally conscious.

The Indian gazed at the house, with that fierce intentness which sometimes glared, in a manner that had got to be, in its ordinary aspects, dull and besotted.

During half an hour or more we remained exposed to the storm, as we listened with painful intentness for some sound which should tell us that they had been discovered, and when at the end of that time we had heard nothing, it was believed they were on their way in safety.

Jacopo had not ceased to watch the interview with the utmost intentness of his faculties.

The whole scene is overhung with a close and enervating gloom; one apprehends somehow that the air swims with a heavy fragrance; and though one feels that the artist's hand failed to represent his thought, he was painting with a desperate intentness, and the dark quality of the conception contrives to struggle out.

For death went with it, and life remained with those who watched it go; and being rejected, they watched with eager intentness.

" "You t'ink dat posserbul, Masser Mile?" demanded the old man, fixing his dull eyes on me, with an earnest intentness that proved he had not entirely lost all sensibility to his moral condition.

" Capper kept her hand in his, his green eyes running over her with elusive intentness.

Queen Freydis looked at him with rather embarrassing intentness all the while, but she spoke quite calmly.

After about thirty lines she stopped, and, regaining her ordinary senses, perceived that the entire family was staring at her with an extreme intentness.

They were fixed upon Godfrey with such feverish intentness that they did not see my glance, and I lowered my head instantly.

Could it be illusiontheir fiery intentness?

A faint glow of dawn crept through the pantry windows, and Betty paused a moment and regarded the rows of milk pans which adorned the shelves of the small room with grave intentness.

She put her calloused hand against her lips and stood listening with agonized intentness.

Leaning heavily on one of the chairs, he stared with a passionate intentness.

He only continued watching me with a patient intentness, which seemed gradually to merge into some more active interest.

His listless expression brightened to the puzzling intentness with which he had looked at her in the morning.

Yet, now that the great hope was gone on which his brain had worked with rigid, fierce intentness, now that his hands were powerless to redeem a perishing class, he had time to fall into careless, kindly habit: he thought it wasted time, remorsefully, of course.

"No, let us stay here," she said, and passing her arm through his she stared for a few moments with a singular intentness into the darkness of the garden.

His eye fell upon Pringle, where it rested with a steady intentness.

A sort of stern intentness had settled upon his face, without marring its curious faun-like beauty.

It is an almost supernatural intentness; sensation raised to the nth power.

At first he spoke weakly and slowly, his opening words almost inaudible, so that the throng of people before him leaned forward in sympathetic intentness, and silence became absolute in the great hall except for the high quavering of his tones.

With strange, uncanny intentness the child pored over these relics of the past, copying them instead of his writing book, until he could imitate not only the spelling and language but even the handwriting of the original.

Though she watched him thenceforward, not one glance did he vouchsafe to his jealous sweetheart, and never for an instant withdrew his eyes from Martha, or relaxed the unnatural intentness of his gaze.