A certain new discovery obsessed her like a piece of piercing music.

A new ideal, which he proudly called "progress," obsessed him, the ideal of quantity and not quality.

The lust has obsessed him, without regard to whether it be constructive or destructive.

To what a degree Germany was obsessed by the idea that Britain was trying to strangle her by an encircling policy, is apparent in a diplomatic document quoted by Professor Oncken.

When dust rose once more Lenore covered her face, although, obsessed as she was by the deep change in herself, neither dust nor heat nor distance affected her greatly.

If the teachers alone are duty-obsessed, or perhaps sadistic, the child endures the agonies of repeated admonitions, demotions, and punishments.

The one thought which obsessed him was that he had been duped.

Still chuckling, he arose and shuffled out, followed by the unsavory Slim. Outside, and on the road to the village, Slim began to be obsessed by doubts.

The Czechs had just inaugurated their National Republican Government, and were naturally obsessed with the usual "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" business, and could not be expected to view the establishment of a Dictatorship within their sphere of operations with entire unconcern or without serious misgivings.

She has obsessed them with an evil ideal, but the point we have to note is that she has succeeded in obsessing them with that ideal.

Had those letters obsessed her a little more strongly she might have become quite mad, the Freudians would tell you.

And so, though aware that there were spy-hunting listeners all around, a mad desire to utter the forbidden tongue obsessed me.

And while on the one hand existing divorce laws appear to be obsessed by sexual offences, other things of far more evil effect upon the home go without a remedy.

An unwary man obsessed with that idea would be very likely to assume without consideration that men were less specialised in a barbaric state of society than they are to-day.

He was still moving forward toward the house with the walled garden, but a fear obsessed him that perhaps after all there had been a mistake.

The material there supplied is confirmatory in the best sense of the detail contributed by Mr. Wells to the cancelled preface of Veranilda, touching the 'schoolboy, obsessed by a consuming passion for learning, at the Quaker's boarding-school at Alderley.

And Captain John Robin Ross-Ellison (and still more Mir Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan), obsessed with the belief that a different and more terrible 1857 would dawn with the first big reverse in England's final war with her systematic, slow, sure, and certain rival, her deliberate, scientific, implacable rival, gave all his thoughts, abilities and time to the enthralling, engrossing game of Getting Ready.

There are no words severe enough for Mrs. Oliphant's horrible portrait of her as a plain-faced, lachrymose, middle-aged spinster, dying, visibly, to be married, obsessed for ever with that idea, for ever whining over the frustration of her sex.

It obsessed him like a superstition, and, for the moment, he forgot the horses, the race, and all that had brought him there.

Day after day she brooded, intent, obsessed, fiercely pondering his obliteration.

I confess to you that even I am absolutely obsessed by the miracle which has turned the invaders back from the walls of Paris.

Personally, I would submit marital relations to the two tests I have proposed, and add that we have succeeded in oversexing ourselves to an extent which cannot be ignored; that we have "repressed" till we are obsessed; and that, before we right ourselves, we shall have to make many experiments, try many roads, and suffer many things.

A conscience, dumb to brooding fears, Companioned hearing deaf to cheers; A body, marshalled by the will, Kept dancing while a heart stood still: And eyes obsessed with vacant stare, Looked over heads to empty air, As though they sought to find therein Redemption for a maiden sin. 'Twas thus, amid force driven grace, We found the lost look on her face;

Obsessed now by the one controlling impulse to get away safely, I drove the horse into the water, and as he reached swimming depth, grasped a stirrup leather, and compelled him to strike out for the opposite shore.

And I, though frightened, was so obsessed with the idea of getting a picture that I began to fumble with the shutter of my camera.