The horsefly is larger and more poignantly assertive than the insect which we know by that name.

It was the voice of a very old man, tired out, indifferent, poignantly feeble.

Even her pleasures, were the man to prove better than she expects, coming to her with an abatement, like that which persons who are in possession of ill-gotten wealth must then most poignantly experience (if they have reflecting and unseared minds) when, all their wishes answered, (if answered,) they sit down in hopes to enjoy what they have unjustly obtained, and find their own reflections their greatest torment.

She realized poignantly all that Sir Beverley had visualized when he had told her that very soon his boy would be all alone.

No man, I think, can remain long silent under the stars, with the brooding, mysterious night around about him, without feeling, poignantly, how little he understands anything, how inconsequential his actions are, how feeble his judgments.

She thought, poignantly: "Poor old thing!"

Linforth wondered whether Shere Ali had ever noticed the resemblance, and whether some recollection of the summer which he had spent at Poynings had ever struck poignantly home as he had stood upon these steps.

Victorine's tears smote on him poignantly.

Whatever bludgeonings may be gathering for you, I think one feels more poignantly at your age than ever again in life.

But Florence at any rate has two marble masterpieces that belong to the later periodthe Brutus in the Bargello and the Pietà in the Duomo, which we have seenthat poignantly impressive rendering of the entombment upon which the old man was at work when he died, and which he meant for his own grave.

For though you have made that rogue Walpole retire, You are out of the frying-pan into the fire: But since to the Protestant line I'm a friend, I tremble to think how these changes may end.' Horace, notwithstanding an affected indifference, felt his father's downfall poignantly.

The miseries endured by these captives, and so poignantly described in John Windus's travels, and in the "Naufrage du Brick Sophie" by Charles Cochelet,[B] show how savage the feeling against the foreigner had become.

The situations seemed to me to be poignantly beautiful, especially that in which La Vallière and Montespan and the Queen found themselves together.

The thought came to her, suddenly and very poignantly, of that wonderful night of spring, when she had first wandered along the cliff with the scent of the gorse-bushes rising like incense all around her, when she had first heard that magic, flute-like call of youth and love.

It seemed to her a very long time later that she found herself lying exhausted against the sofa-cushions, feeling his arm still about her and poignantly conscious of his touch.

Fortunately the book has other tales of which the humour is less caustic; probably of intention Mr. MAXWELL'S pictures of war as the soldier knew it, its hardships and compensations, contrast poignantly with the others.

The frame of the sufferer was bent, upheld by a cane, one hand poignantly resting on his back.

a bit of comedy poignantly relished by the donor of the bird.

When half the distance to the haven of the stable had been covered it betrayed symptoms of some obscure distress, coughing poignantly.

These citizens of the captured soil of France knew bitterness of invasion more poignantly than those who hid in cellars under shell-fire.

He was wondering what she meant, when,from behind that screen of flowers,soft and low, poignantly sweet and thrilling in its purity of tone, came the music of the violin that he had learned to know so well.

when she sees them rejoice, Still keener the pain of her agony burns; And when Joy carols by, with a rapturous voice, To hopeless Remembrance more poignantly turns.

* One has heard so often of works of "absorbing interest" that appeared at "the psychological moment" that one feels a bit squeamish about applying these phrases even to such a book as Mr. HARRY DE WINDT'S Russia as I Know It (CHAPMAN AND HALL); but honestly their appropriateness cannot be denied in view of the author's peculiar knowledge of the too mysterious country on which interest just now is so poignantly concentrated.

The touching experiences of Gerald Florville in that house of despairas set forth in "The Buttery and the Boudoir"were poignantly brought to her mind.

They urged her more poignantly than words.