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.

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.

"Who am I?" had become the obsessing riddle of her life.

This thought had been obsessing Hilda all the afternoon and evening.

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.

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.

I had slept a good deal in the early afternoon, and had thus recovered somewhat from the exhaustion of a disturbed night, but this only served apparently to render me more susceptible than before to the obsessing spell of the haunting.

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 perfume of her presence seemed to linger about him when she had gone, obsessing him with the atmosphere of superiority and exotic elegance that emanated from her whole being.

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!

More too, as the rebound comes back to one's self in a life too full for loneliness, too obsessing for self-interest.

Then more tender memories would obsess her.

But the doctorIf I could always tell some oneif I could tell you when these things were obsessing mehaunting methey would cease" Mrs. Yarrow rose, with rather a piteous smile.

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

Again like a monk, he was depressed and in the grip of an obsessing lassitude, seized with the need of self-communion and with a desire to have nothing in common with the profane who were, for him, the utilitarian and the imbecile.

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.

He was like a child who is playing at being a burglar, his face had exactly that absorption, that obsessing pre-occupation.