His hatred of that subject approached an obsession.

Motionless she lay on the sofa, looking at the grey November day with vague eyes that bespoke an obsession of hallucination.

He ran his hand across his brow as though to brush away an obsession.

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.

Women who had brought to it high messages of art and education had known what it was to be exasperated into speechlessness by what they were pleased to denominate the maternal obsession.

But when she got the obsession that she would be put down as an ex-slave, she refused to tell more.

But it seemed to me that he tried most to avoid giving her a reply that would heighten her obsession.

" She rose with a sudden gesture of her shoulders as if she shook off the obsession of him.

But under their hypnotic spell, the minds of many seem to suffer an obsession, and they are caught in the swirl of foolish feeling, like a grocer's clerk in the hands of a mesmerist.

A three-legged pariah-dog sniffed, took on a sudden obsession, and went howling heinously dawn the gorge.