"An analysis of the 1912 Olympian games shows that the American showed to best advantage in contests where the stress of competition was hardest.

I don't know why I tell you this; why I lay so much stress on the first weird impression I got of the forecastle.

There we rely upon a co-operation which, as was stressed in Chapter I, is unco-ordinated.

Every process is accomplished by using just the right stress at just the right moment; but no two persons are alike in the length of time required for these little discoveries.

The period following his university course was one of storm and stress for Carlyle.

No tree takes the snow stress with such ease as the silver fir.

"In hours of stress like the present, there is no ignoble work.

" "Old families!" exclaimed Sir George Templemore, with quite as much stress as a well-bred man could very well lay on the words, in such circumstances.

There came a peculiar sensation in his throat and facial muscles, a nervous stress between laughing and crying.

In its earlier stages, he was apt to lay too much stress by far upon fugitive "frames," and to mistake mere weariness, torpor, and even diseased action of body or mind, for coldness toward his Saviour.

It requires no superlative imagination to see that an adrenal poor subject does not belong upon a job that involves muscle stress over a long period, or indeed fatiguing conditions of any sort.

There is no point on which Roman law laid more stress than that the children, both male and female, were to be constantly protected and must receive their legal share of their father's or mother's goods.

And how often had Victor stressed to her the dangers of his position, surrounded by nameless but implacable enemies who would stick at no infamy to compass his ruin!

I felt that I was in the grasp of some giant force; and, in the glimmering of my fading reason, grew earnestly alarmed, for the terrible stress under which my frame labored increased every moment.

Later on he had a passion for the sea-coast, and for those scenes of storm and stress about the seagirt shores of old England which he was so feelingly and with such poetic beauty to depict in "Sea Dreams," and in those incomparable songs, embodiments at once of sorrow and of faith, 'Break, break, break,' and 'Crossing the Bar.'

Briefly it is, that both the 'canals' of Mars and the rifts as well as the luminous streaks on the moon are cracks in the volcanic crust, caused by internal stresses due to the action of the heated interior.

The difficulties attending the measurement of the stresses beyond the elastic limit are so great that commonly they are not reckoned.

It is the ratio of stress per unit of area to the deformation per unit of { unit stress } length.