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.

You see that war will soon obsess rich and poor, alien and neutral and belligerent, pacifist and militarist.

The crowds of them, the airy spread of sepals, the pale purity of the petal spurs, the quivering swing of bloom, obsesses the sense.

Generally, his hands and feet are clammy and perspiring, his face is abnormally flushed or pallid, the eyes are worried or starey, unwonted wandering sensations involving now this area of the body, or now that obsess him.

Phobias, fears which obsess the mind, anxiety neuroses, suspicions, hallucinations, delusions, nervousness, all expressions of what we may sum up technically as the imaginative state of mind, occur and occur frequently, associated with other symptoms of posterior pituitary overactivity.

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 unnatural atmosphere of things that one likes and looks upon as pleasing, peaceful objects in ordinary times, seemed now to obsess me.

It will obsess ostensible politics.

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.

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

And the difficulty of creating a better European opinion and temper is due largely to just this idea that obsesses the Militarist, that unless they misrepresent facts in a sensational direction the nations will be too apathetic to arm; that education will abolish funk, and that presumably funk is a necessary element in self-defence.

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.

Art with its seductions is to obsess the soul with foreign thoughts!

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.

Then more tender memories would obsess her.

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.

Consequently he does not allow the grim realities of war to obsess his mind when off duty.

Then his thoughts began to obsess him less; his suffering disappeared and to the exhaustion he had felt throughout his members was grafted a certain indescribable languor.

The thought of death obsesses him.