Magnificent obsession.

This atmosphere would have made no impression on a nature either more sturdily philosophic, or more unimaginative than Sylvia's (Judith, for instance, was not in the least affected by the experience), but it came to be a morbid obsession of this strong, healthy, active-minded young creature.

The first information concerning this dreadful obsession arose from a fisherman, who, coming into the harbor of a nightfall after a stormy day, had, as he affirmed, beheld the old meeting-house all of a blaze of light.

Sexual obsessions of saints and mystics.

A three-legged pariah-dog sniffed, took on a sudden obsession, and went howling heinously dawn the gorge.

The spirit of Christ is not in it, but the malice of Satan working upon the better natures of men and justifying in the name of conscience and principle what are frequently the workings of self-will and pride and intellectual obsession.

Hypersecretion of the ovary will cause a sexual susceptibility and a mood of genital obsession, capable of the most remarkable sublimations and perversions.

It really was funit should have been fine for mebut my gloomy obsession to hurry obscured my mind.

But West had become such a horrible obsession with her that the sight of him even at a distance had put her in a panic.

Had he an insane obsession on the subject of crime and criminals?

But in spite of Wieland's generous encouragement, Kleist found it impossible to complete this masterpiece, and his hopeless pursuit of the perfect ideal became an intolerable obsession to his ambitious and sensitive soul.

Licentious and mystical obsessions haunted his brain, they mingled confusedly, and he would often be troubled by an unappeasable desire to shun the vulgarities of the world and to plunge, far from the customs and modes held in such reverence, into convulsions and raptures which were holy or infernal and which, in either case, proved too exhausting and enervating.

Women who had brought to it high messages of art and education had known what it was to be exasperated into speechlessness by what they were pleased to denominate the maternal obsession.

"Have you ever experienced the sort of mental obsession which gradually causes the brain to be mastered by some single absurd ideaan idea almost insane, and one which your reason and your will alike repel, but which nevertheless gradually blends itself with your thought, fastens itself upon your mind, and grows and grows?

" Martin Dyke, under the impulse of his persistent obsession, looked up hopefully.

Of these there are two, one invariably recognised as valuable and one which, I think, under the matter-of-fact scientific obsession, is altogether underrated and neglected The first, which is the social side of history, makes up the bulk of valid sociological work at the present time.

Yet, so urgent had been my temporary obsession, that my first presentation of her waswell, not as I knew her now.

He spoke without emphasis, his words seeming to drop from the thick obsession of his dream.

None have shaken themselves free from monarchical traditions; each may become an easy prey to dynastic follies and the aggressive obsessions of diplomacy.

Dorn would go to war as no ordinary soldier, to obey, to fight, to do his duty; but for some strange, unfathomable obsession of his own.

Simpson had some little skill with his pencila real love for drawing was one of the instincts which his austere obsessions had crushed out of him.

But if he went to war with this bitter obsession, with this wrong motive, this passionate desire to spill blood in him that he hated, he would lose his soul.

Hypersecretion of the ovary will cause a sexual susceptibility and a mood of genital obsession, capable of the most remarkable sublimations and perversions.

In our days a curious obsession has led many people to disparage these criteria, as though they were the sordid prejudices of a stupid tradesman.

What an extraordinary obsession!