He sighs in the most heartrending manner, and seems to be in a state of extreme nervous tension.

Every nerve in her body seemed strained to its utmost tension and her head was in a whirl.

Old jokes are dynamometers of mental tension; an old joke tells better among friends travelling than at home,which shows that their minds are in a state of diminished, rather than increased vitality.

He sighs in the most heartrending manner, and seems to be in a state of extreme nervous tension.

The Reverend Stephen compressed his, and after a definite pause of most unpleasant tension, he uttered a deep sigh and withdrew.

Edith Morriston drew a great breath of relief from the painful tension with which she had listened.

It was not great music, surely; but it was sung by the greatest living singer, singing alone in the dark, as calmly and as perfectly as if all the orchestra had been with her, singing as no one can who feels the least tremor of fear; and the awful tension of the dark throng relaxed, and the breath that came was a great sigh of relief, for it was not possible to be frightened when a fearless woman was singing so marvellously.

But while the Doll's House scene is a piece of quiet gossip, brought about (as we have noted) by rather artificial means, and with no dramatic tension in it, the Wild Duck scene is a piece of tense, one might almost say fierce, drama, fulfilling the Brunetière definition in that it shows us two characters, a father and son, at open war with each other.

Saturday was a day of considerable tension for all at the Quarter Circle KT.

In order to bring all parts of a great mass of metal into simultaneous tension, Blakely and others have hooped an inner tube with rings having a successively higher initial tension.

Every stem is in a state of constant tension.

Their hearts settled to a quieter beat; it was heavenly to be rid of that dreadful tension.

But great as was the emotional tension, lusty and now wearied youth must be served.

The one seeks to beget in the spectator a state of placid, though it may be of aspiring, contemplation; the other, a state of more or less acute tension.

The very effort to resist the desire of seeing her as I saw everybody else, gave a frenzy and an unnatural tension to my feeling and my manner.

After a half-hour more of uncomfortable tension the engines began to sputter, the propellers revolved, andwe were safe!

The relaxed tension made him realize that his nerves were shaky, and he had a sense of great depression.

The picture machine whirled on with droning buzz, the accused sat still, eyes on the sheet, the red column pulsed steadily, up and down, up and down, now a little higher, now a little quicker, butfor a minute, for two minutesnothing decisive happened, nothing that they had hoped for; yet Coquenil felt, he knew that something was going to happen, he knew it by the agonized tension of the room, by the atmosphere of pain about them.

As Monsignor Masterman glanced round, unable to understand what it was that caused this sense of tremendous tension, he noticed a head or two in that array of faces drop suddenly as if in overwhelming emotion.

Annibal Caracci was accused of an affectation of muscularity, and an undue parade of anatomical knowledge, even upon quiescent figures: But the artist whom we are now considering has no quiescent figures:even his repose is a state of rigid tension, if not extravagant distortion.

The sky of purple sulphury tint became stormy toward evening, the atmosphere became stifling, the electrical tension excessive.

Below were other circles from which the observer could learn the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, the intensity of the sunlight, and the electric tension at the moment.

The agony which Jesus suffered from this violent tension was indescribable; the words 'My God, my God,' escaped his lips, and the executioners increased his pain by tying his chest and arms to the cross, lest the hands should be torn from the nails.

His mouth shut, and his clenched hands loosened from their fierce tension.

We laugh at "Then came Dalhousie, that great God of War, Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar," because of the relaxation which follows the sudden tension of the mind; but if we remove the idea of the colonelcy from this position of anti-climax, the same couplet becomes energetic rather than ludicrous "Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar, Then came Dalhousie, that great God of War.