I am naturally a modest man, made more so by my extreme sensitiveness to personal criticism; and to be obliged to stand apparently unconscious, when I know I am being looked at and commented upon, is harrowing to my feelings.

But he fell because a young, inexperienced, and ambitious sovereign,apt pupil of his own in the divine right of monarchs to govern, and yet seemingly inspired by a keen sensitiveness to his people's wants and the spirit of the age,could not endure his commanding ascendency and haughty dictation, and accepted his resignation offered in a moment of pique.

This was no time for child's play, for a morbid sensitiveness, for weak indulgence of the feelings.

She rose to follow, catching Kathleen's whisper: "Don't let him put it over on you, now!" Anderson lighted a big cigar, as always after supper, but to Lenore's delicate sensitiveness he seemed to be too long about it.

And he was like her not in features, not in the color of hair or eyes, but in a peculiar sensitiveness, distinguished no less by a fatalism of its own kind than was the cheery aggressiveness of the buccaneer.

" Mrs. Bloomfield was struck with the tremor in the voice, and with the air of embarrassment, in one who usually was so easy and collected; and with feminine sensitiveness she adroitly abandoned the subject, though she often recurred to this stifled emotion in the course of the day, and from that moment she became a silent observer of Eve's deportment with all her father's guests.

Our sense of honor is responsible for our exaggerated sensitiveness and touchiness; and if there is the conceit in us with which some foreigners charge us, that, too, is a pathological outcome of honor.

He showed a dog-like affection for some members of the household,a son of Mr. Oliver's especially,and a keen, nervous sensitiveness to the slightest blame or praise from them,possessed, too, a low animal irritability of temper, giving way to inarticulate yelps of passion when provoked.

A few of the latter seemed slightly self-conscious, notably, an elderly spinster who, having never done anything wrong, was possessed of an unusual sensitiveness.

How studiously would the scientists explain the effects of sight as produced by subtilty of hearing; and those of hearing as due to abnormal sensitiveness in some other respect!

A curious sensitiveness to heat and cold distressed him.

Ruskin had a rare sensitiveness to beauty in every form, and more, perhaps, than any other writer in our language, he has helped us to see and appreciate the beauty of the world around us.

It has been said that we have shown a timid and almost craven sensitiveness to the opinions pronounced abroad upon our national struggle, especially those pronounced by our own kinsfolk of England.

And we have all heard of such a thing as taste refined to that painful sensitiveness, that it became a source of torment,that is, unfitted for common enjoyments and even for common duties.

"You do not, surely, suppose I think you are responsible for it, do you?" he says, with a lofty air of astonishment at your unreasonable sensitiveness.

A letter to the widow of an old college friend reveals the extraordinary sensitiveness of his nature: 2, Bedford Well Road, Eastbourne, August 2, 1897.

It was not unusual, but her nerves had acquired an unwonted sensitiveness; she shuddered, and rushed from him up the stairs.

Perhaps wonderful was the exacter word, wonderful in a way that included beauty,wonderful, and with a strange air about her that suggested exceptional refinement, exquisite sensitiveness to refined things.

Nor should we pass unnoticed his criticisms and annotations upon Milton and Spenser, manifesting as they did the acutest sensitiveness to the finest beauties of poetry.

Mr. Powis has no home of his own; and, for that matter, scarcely any country" "How can you know this, Nanny?" demanded Eve, with the jealous sensitiveness of a young love.

To test the relative color-sensitiveness of plain emulsion plates, plates stained with eosine, and plates stained with the blue-myrtle chlorophyl, I exposed one of each kind through the same yellow screen, giving each five minutes exposure, on the same piece of copy, which was the chromo-lithograph already described.

Thomson's mirror receiver had been improved until it displayed remarkable sensitiveness.

At first he had thought of some opals and hydrophanes; but these stones, interesting for their hesitating colors, for the evasions of their flames, are too refractory and faithless; the opal has a quite rheumatic sensitiveness; the play of its rays alters according to the humidity, the warmth or cold; as for the hydrophane, it only burns in water and only consents to kindle its embers when moistened.

A hundred times they have volunteered it, with that healthy disregard of any sickly sensitiveness which arms one against blows to one's vanity through all after-life.

Prophet and psalmist are here at one with the poet and the philosopher in spiritual sensitiveness.