"The intense" was with him a bye-word of scornful disapprobation.

Intense indeed must be the affection which can thus drive you to fisticuffs!

" When a book was completed, so intense had been her application and the absorption of her life in her work, a period of despondency followed.

They were created with an instinct for flight, and intense must be their longings to indulge in the power which nature had bestowed on them.

" She was sinking fast indeed, and this terror of death, so seldom seen in the dying, grew apparently deeper and more intense as death drew near.

It was clear also that some pains and pleasures were more intense than others, and that therefore the same man could in a given number of seconds experience varying amounts of pleasure or pain.

Although accompanied by delirium, and though running its full course of weeks, the "mountain fever" is not as intense as typhoid.