Lack of appetite, lack of energy, lack of response to stimuli are its keynotes and the motifs of the later years of childhood.

She wondered sometimes if that were a characteristic of all men, if that were the big motif in the lives of such men as Paul Abbey and Jack Fyfe, for instance; if everything else, save the struggle of getting and keeping money, resolved itself into purely incidental phases of their existence?

BARBARA, the widowed heroine whose vacillations of devotion to her buried husband and the living cousin who might be his twin, furnish the motif for Amelie Rives's story, The Quick or the Dead?

There is the same long raincoat that runs as a motif through all the other pictures.

These opinions do, in their various keys, sound a similar motif to mine.