The memory of Beaumaroy's look was even keener than the sensation caused by Beaumaroy's boot.

"You're keener than I thought, but you can't tell Cartwright much he doesn't believe he knows.

"It is pleasant to remember, is it not, my son, that your mother had a keener discernment, and did not give way to the dictates of a romantic imagination?" "Sir," I said, "there is only one reason why I ever came here, and that was because my mother requested it.

Its admirable analysis of the complex political and social organizations of which the modern civilized world is made up must have led thousands to trace with keener interest the great crises of times past, by which the characteristics of the present were determined.

It so happened that the public took a keener interest than it usually takes in scientific predictions; but the discussion has now settled down.

The inroads which death had made in her circle of intimate friends, a growing dissatisfaction with the enjoyments of London life, and especially a keener sense of her responsibility, as a professed Christian, than she had hitherto experienced, led to a close self-examination, and to a scrutiny of the real motives of her life.

A keener mind fell into the same error.

On, Stafford, there have been times, black times, when I learned to know why some women fly to drink to drown their misery: and our misery is as keen, yes, keener than yours.

Would it have escaped the keener eyes of James Allerdyke?

At the same time his interest in Temperance work, alike in its religious, social, and political aspects, was always becoming keener.

Yet there are pangs of keener wo, Of which the sufferers never speak, Nor to the world's cold pity show The tears that scald the cheek, Wrung from their eyelids by the shame And guilt of those they shrink to name, Whom once they loved with cheerful will, And love, though fallen and branded, still.

Thus at first The infant takes not kindly to the breast, But before long, its eager thirst Is fain to slake with hearty zest: Thus at the breasts of wisdom day by day With keener relish you'll your thirst allay.

And he's a long way keener on order and tradition than he is on spiritual progress.

To be sure, he was a keener judge of the sights and scents of the mountain desert than any of the half-bred mares but though he lived to fifty years he would never approach the stored wisdom, the uncanny acuteness of eye, ear, and nostril of the wild grey.

If through this volume any boy or girl should be aroused to a keener interest in the great writer, and should learn to love him and his work, my labour will be richly repaid.

'No doubt,' he thought, 'women have keener feelings than we have.'

Ideals will still guide him, but they will be more practical, and so his one-pointedness will be much keener and will produce larger results.

" It is not to be supposed that a woman of this sort was an inattentive listener to preaching so stimulating to the intellect as that of Dr. H. No pair of eyes followed the web of his reasonings with a keener and more anxious watchfulness than those sad, deep-set, hazel ones; and as she was drawn along the train of its inevitable logic, a close observer might have seen how the shadows deepened over them.

He had been completely unsuspicious at the time, untroubled by one doubtful thought; but it appeared to him now that there had been a change in Marian from the time of his friend's cominga new joyousness and vivacity, a keener delight in the simple pleasures of their daily life, and withal a fitfulness, a tendency to change from gaiety to thoughtful silence, that he had not remarked in her before.

"It is Ronicky Doone!" Chapter Twenty-seven The Last Stand At the same instant she saw what his keener eye had discerned the moment before.

Of all the pangs that make up its agony none is keener than that of wounded pride or vanity.

Savages have keener senses than we have, but their intellect and emotions are blunt and untrained.

" "Heaven has given me keener perception, your ladyship.

He was remarkable only in having everything a little in excess of his typea little squarer in jaw and shoulder, a little longer in nose and leg, a little keener of eye and slower of tongue.

I question whether any one ever read "Les Misérables" with keener feeling.