It is our prevision of Nora's exit at the end of the last act that lends its dramatic poignancy to her entrance at the beginning of the first.

And thus out of my journeys I have words which bring back to me with indescribable poignancy the particular impression of a time or a place.

And what adds an insupportable poignancy to the reflection is self-condemnation.

It is the horrible contrast between my dreams and their realization that gives the keenest poignancy to my pangs.

It might be there, waiting for them in the background, but, with Maisie going about as if nothing had happened, even remorse had lost its protective poignancy.

I suppose it is a story not uncommon among men, but this morning, told of the old Doctor we had just laid away, it struck me with a tragic poignancy difficult to describe.

He would forget, forget for ages, until, in the schoolroom at concert time, at the first caress of the magical smell, those delicate and divine, those secret, submerged, and forgotten things arose, and with the undying poignancy and subtlety of odors they entered into him again.

Or, again, an Abbess, the protagonist of one of the great love stories of the world, by sheer force of personality, would compose letters to onehow immeasurably her moral inferior, in spite of his geniusexpressing with an unexampled poignancy the most passionate emotions of the heart.

The beast which is driven to market, is defended by law from the goad of the driver; whereas the wretched African, though an human being, and whose feelings receive of course a double poignancy from the power of reflection, is unnoticed in this respect in the colonial code, and may be goaded and beaten till he expires.

The strongest part of the story is the tragedy, suggested with a poignancy almost too vivid, of the wretched elder woman, tortured in mind and body, morbidly aware of the contrast between her own decay and the vitality of her rival.

He was praying, with an especial poignancy for "that blessing which maketh rich and addeth no sorrow.