While the German doctrine was the plaything merely of hysterical and supersensitive persons, like Carlyle and Nietzsche, it mattered little to the world of politics.

Confident of being warned at need by his hearing, which was normally supersensitive and, when he was engaged as now, keyed to preterhuman acuteness, he went coolly about the business, and at his first step found a portable reading-lamp on a long cord and coolly switched on its hooded light.

He was supersensitive of his roughness, his lack of education and conscious crudeness, and the words of Carolyn June were still in his mind.

Everyone loved Beth De Graf save herself, and at this stage of her development the influence of her cousins and of Uncle John had conspired to make the supersensitive girl more tolerant of herself and less morbid than formerly.

She was, as you know, supersensitive, and whatever her grievances were she kept them to herself.

Yet, in spite of this and the extremely difficult situation created by the submarine blockade, the individual American is not embarrassed unless mistaken for an Englishman or unless he finds some supersensitive patriot in a restaurant or theatre who objects even to hearing English.

The boy was deeply agitated and suffering as only the supersensitive can suffer from harshness, whether merited or not.

Now don't let the supersensitive menwho always want women to pursue the perfectly lady-like employment of knitting gray

She, judging with the supersensitive vanity of all her self-conscious "set," thought the flush was at the implied criticism of his skill; but he was far too good a rider to care about his misadventure, and it was her unconscious double meaning that stung him.

Instead of bringing to bear that most powerful of influences, the influence of passionate love, he held to his stupid compact with his supersensitive selfthe compact that he would never intrude his longings upon her.

Fear to speak, lest I should incriminate myself and others, gave to my impressions the requisite intensity, and the daily recurrence of the same general line of thought served to fix all impressions in my then supersensitive memory.

It was too much of a novelty, and the vibrations touched his supersensitive nerves annoyingly.

He was never absentminded or unattentive, for that might have brought the quick clutch of the elder Miss Ahlberg's bony hand into his own supersensitive crop of hair, and most of what was going on had enough interest in itself to prevent his mind from straying far afield.

He was large of body and large of mind, with a most impressive girth and a voice that commanded attention without grating on supersensitive nerves.

And in this fatalism, so utterly foreign to his ardent, supersensitive nature, he found a certain momentary sense of peace.