Going onward in these latter at an irregular pace; sometimes momentarily stunned into a rangy stagger by a sounding blow on the cerebrum or the cerebellum; and, again, irritated almost to a run by contusion of shoulder-blade or funny-bone; he finally became aware that two men were following him through the lots, and that with a closeness of attention indicating more than common interest.

" During the hot months of the year the closeness of the rooms and the attacks of mosquitoes force many a respectable householder to shoulder his bedding and join the great army of street-sleepers, who crowd the footpaths and open spaces like shrouded corpses.

The closeness of my rooms had become unbearable.

Nerves and internal secretion are associated here with a closeness symbolic of their general relations.

The discovery thus followed with surprising closeness after Peary's triumph in reaching the North Pole in 1909.

This, while it renders choice easy, renders closeness of unity impossible.

But the closeness of the occupation sobered him.

" She clung to him silently, with a closeness that was passionate.

The closeness with which a line of interest, once started, ought to be followed up, must depend in some measure on the nature and tone of the play.

When we refer to the chapter in which Volkmar deals with this subject [Endnote 209:1]a chapter which is an admirable specimen of the closeness and thoroughness of German researchwe do indeed find some such expressions, but to quote them alone would give an entirely erroneous impression of the conclusion to which the writer comes.

In this great Review which Adam takes of all his Sons and Daughters, the first Objects he is presented with exhibit to him the Story of Cain and Abel, which is drawn together with much Closeness and Propriety of Expression.

Some of the densest and most impenetrable clumps of bushes that I have ever seen, as well on account of the closeness and stubbornness of their branches as of their thorns, have been these wild-apple scrubs.

He broke off to say, laughing, "I bet you the technique would be quite as difficult to acquire," and went on again, thoughtfully: "In this modern maze of terrible closeness of inter-relation, to achieve a life that's happy and useful and causes no undeserved suffering to the untold numbers of other lives which touch itisn't there an undertaking which needs the passion for harmony and proportion?

Wilder noted all these changes of the hour with a closeness that proved how critical he deemed their case.

His perceived closeness with BJP had probably started long before he joined BJP, to contest Cuncolim constituency on that party's ticket in the 1998 Goa assembly elections.

God pity the man who canna tell the difference between closeness and common sense!

But there is this interest about the present proceedings, that they illustrate with curious closeness, amid so much that is different, the way in which great spiritual prerogatives grew up in the Church.

And as love provokes love, many have found it possible to conceive for Christ an attachment the closeness of which no words can describe, a veneration so possessing and absorbing the man within them, that they have said, "I live no more, but Christ lives in me.

There was an instant in which the two drivers glimpsed each other out of the gloom of the unlighted curve; then quick action upon the part of bothlightning-like swerves to avoid the dangertwo great cars rocking each on the brink of disaster, then righting themselves and running on into safety, no pausing to let any look back and ponder upon the closeness of the escape.

We were now suffering much from the extreme heat and closeness of the weather; the thermometer ranged night and day between 85 and 89 degrees, and when the breeze was light or the weather calm the air was insufferably hot and close, and affected us all very much, but happily without any very serious consequences.

The pitching and rolling of the little boat, the closeness, and even the sea-sickness, we bore as became us.

The most important point of connexion is the madness of Aphron, which is modelled with some closeness on that of Amyntas.

The stillness, the absence of all life whether animal or vegetable, the dungeon-like closeness of the monstrous walls, were beyond language.

Closer and closer yet, as by a spell, each gazing searchingly into the other's glance, till their eyes could see no more for closeness, and their lips met in life's first virgin kiss,in the glory and strength of a two-fold purity, each to each.

The closeness of the air would very soon have rendered life insupportable; and supposing any considerable number had collected near the outlet, where a supply of fresh air could have reached them, the difficulty of obtaining food and of concealing their place of retreat would have been in most instances insurmountable.