"What do you mean by it?" "Fancy!" returned Mr. Smithson, with intense bitterness.

Behind her, to the intense surprise of both gentlemen, loomed the stalwart figure of Mr. Jack Butler.

Once an airman, and just by instinct as it were, the eyes are almost constantly searching the heavens, perhaps for a glimpse of other adventurous craft, or it may be, signs that give warning of treacherous winds, gathering storms, or similar things that must always be of intense interest to an aviator.

Clad in satin, glittering with gold and laden with gems which sparkled only less brilliantly than their eyes, they all told of passions, intense, but of various styles, like their beauty.

The silence was intense.

The exceptions are England and Switzerland, whose intense nationality is due to insulation, and Holland, which was morally an island, cut off as it was from France by difference of language and antipathy of race, and from kindred Germany by the antagonism of institutions.

He was saved only by the unaccountable intrigues of the Federalists at a time of intense party warfare.

" The cabman paused in intense thought, and after a few seconds responded cheerfully: "Yes, miss.

With all its faults Rebellion remains gloriously distinct from the rubbish-heap of fiction by virtue of its intense sincerity and its frequent flashes of fine descriptive writing.

Nevertheless, the amorous Marquis, who might have relied upon the solemn promise of his mistress, had it not been for the intense fears which were ever present in his mind, and becoming more violent as the hour for his departure drew nearer, required something more substantial than words.

strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

And being about to close my task in America, I cannot help to say, that the generous reception you have honoured me with, is doubly gratifying to my countrymen, who have watched with intense interest my progress in Americaand doubly dear to my heart, because it is an evidence that the "farewell" given to the wandering exile's, course, confirms the expectations which the "welcome" had roused.

It is natural that his own people should love and honor him as their great leader and defender in a struggle of intense bitternessthat his old enemies should share this profound regard and admiration is due solely to the character of the individual.

For these hideous creatures, however visionary, have a real traditionary ground in medieval beliefsincere and partly reasonable, though adulterating with mendacity, blundering, credulity, and intense superstition.

But because the competition of seamstresses, tailors, shirt- finishers, fur-sewers, &c., is conducted more quietly and privately, it is not less intense, not less miserable, and not less degrading.

No one was more chagrined at the unexpected issue of the affair than Tom Davenport, whose mean and jealous disposition made more intense his hatred of Ben.

Nature, however, has provided mankind with necessaries fitted for their various occasions; having furnished the Europeans with wool, as they have need of warm clothing, while the Negroes, who live in such intense heat, have been supplied with cotton by the Almighty.

For myself, I was conscious of an intense, and most unladylike, desire to slap the poor babu.

There is an intense rivalry, it seems, between our cook and the engineer-man's cook; and although we dined together, our bills-of-fare were kept jealously apart.

"Well, that fellow has reached the end of his rope at last," said Harry, with intense satisfaction, once more stretching himself in his bunk.

There was intense excitement in that room.

Thus it happened, to Lesbia's intense disgust, that her début was deferred till the verge of her twentieth birthday.

She had an intense respect for Lord Bacon's maxim: Knowledge is power.

What must have been the consequence, if his love of wine had daily become more intense?

All their feelings are intense, from being concentrated on so few objects.