The obsession of style is well exemplified by a comparison of Dionysius and Longinus in their discussion of Sappho's literary art.

Only my wife is" "Fire's an obsession with me, I'm afraid," said the stout woman, with a rumbling giggle.

Dr. John was far more of an obsession to her than this little man, Paul Emanuel, who was good enough for Lucy Snowe.

I was beginning to be as much the victim of an obsession as any of the poor creatures whom I tried to cure.

Had he an insane obsession on the subject of crime and criminals?

The first intimation Alford had of the strange effect, which from first to last was rather an obsession than a possession of his, was after a morning of idle satisfaction spent in watching the target practice from the fort in the neighborhood of the little fishing-village where he was spending the summer.

Tom wheeled instantly, his hair bristling and his jaws apart, but the timely arrival of Matt made further demonstration impossible; and Tom's instinctive dislike for Wolf grew into an obsession after that direct and personal insult.

And we, of course, have had our like obsessions without number: "the independence integrity of the Turkish dominion in Europe" is one.

In particular, the mass of the people everywhere, face to face with the necessities of existence, knowing what it is to work and to struggle, to co-operate and to compete, to suffer and to relieve suffering, though they may be less well-informed than the instructed classes, are also less liable to obsession by abstractions.

It seemed to represent the satisfaction of that morbid curiosity which had been such a terrible obsession during these past nerve-racking days.

His moral teaching amounts to this: to inculcate truth-telling about small matters and evasion about large, and to cultivate a morbid obsession in the necessary dawn of sexual consciousness.