My step is quick still, my eye is sharp, and my brain beats fast, but my heart is ancient.
His brain set the playing to words: "It came upon the midnight clear That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold.
And Peter--he hit back valiantly; but somewhere at the back of his brain he kept on seeing pictures of the boy dead.
If you have your grandfather's passions, you have hisbrain too.
To the fantastic brain of love there seemed a resemblance between this rose and her who had culled it.
I have not those dazzling qualities that could enchain a fiery brain like yours.
In spite of all his remedies, thebrain fever which the physician foresaw had occurred; and when his family arrived, the life of Ferdinand was not only in danger but desperate.
What if, at a later period, with a brain for calculation which none can rival, I invariably succeeded in that in which the greatest men in the country fail!
And that is all I can tell you today; for my cheeks are in such a flame, and my brain reels so with the scent of flowers, that I am in no condition to talk sensibly to you.
Visualizing will also form a brain habit of remembering things pictorially, and hence more exactly.
If the first impression is vivid, its effect upon the brain cells is more lasting.
Better a ball in the brainthan to flicker out unheeded, like he did.
It comes into a dream, but after a few moments one becomes more awake, and it is revealed to the brain that one is in Kartoum.
A Methodist when his brain gives way under the same influences fancies that he is forsaken of God.
A votary of wealth when his brain gives way under disease or age fancies that he is a beggar.
At Amesbury she tarried long enough to learn something of the mental destitution of the shepherds employed on Salisbury Plain, and set her fertile brain to contrive a scheme for the supply of the necessary books.
I fear I must have appeared stupid, for suddenly my brain refused to act naturally.
My brain reeled with the schemes and plans that came crowding upon me, only to be rejected one by one as improbable, fantastic, children of an overwrought imagination.
It will never do to give way like this, or I shall be in a brain fever in no time," he reflected.
As far as wealth goes I might perhaps satisfy your people, but for the rest I am but a prosaic fellow, with neither noble blood, nor the brain of a genius, nor anything out of the common.
Had any one said, "The end of the world has come," you would have felt only a mild surprise, for even the capacity for fear or apprehension was stunned as the brain is stunned by a blow.
From the moment when Ferrier groaned with despair, a lightning thought shot into Marion's brain and settled there.
The sturdy old man was triumphant, satisfied with himself and his work, and he only wished to see how the contrivance of his audacious, teeming brain would succeed.
The man never flinched, though he had tasks that might have wearied brain and heart by their sheer nastiness; the healer must have no nerves.
It needed a curious sort of hare-brain to build up such an organization as we have seen.
Henry Fullerton and Blair walked to the station together that night, and the enthusiast said, "I pray that my brain may be able to bear this.
It was an idea worthy of the brain from which it emanated, and a scheme which would not have occurred to any one else.
All this flashed through herbrain as she sat there under Serena's scathing words, saying nothing, but hearing all.
For she was stricken down with brain fever, and there seemed to be small hope of her recovery.
Not now; time enough for that later, when the numbness is gone from her brain and she has the courage to stand face to face with the bitter--the awful truth.
In vain did Beatrix puzzle her brain over the vexed question.
Her brain was giddy, her breath came fluttering feebly--she looked as if she was going to swoon.
Some faint fragments of history strayed through the girl's brain as she sat there, unable to realize as yet the full depths of her own woe.
All this had flashed through Beatrix's brain as she stood there, her eyes upon Serena's pale, triumphant face, her heart sinking slowly into the very depths of dark despair.
She thought it all over--thought until her brain reeled and her heart beat with great suffocating throbs which nearly strangled her.
You do not know the romantic, incredible history of this abode, my daughter, and it is not my intention to relate it to you, for your youthful brain could scarcely comprehend it.
Altogether she looked like the spirit of the place, a delicious wood nymph as enchanting as any a poet's fancy ever created and yet a substantial, mortal reality well calculated to fire a man's blood and set his brain in a whirl.
Morrel were now within a few feet of the hapless, crazed young man, but his attention was so engrossed by the mad thoughts surging through his bewildered brain that he yet failed to detect their presence.
They remained a few seconds in this position, when Jackson, whose brain was again affected by the violence of his feelings, dropped down upon the deck in a renewed state of insensibility.
His brain whirled, his ideas were confused, and he had but a faint reminiscence of what had occurred.
Nicholas arrived at the head of the stairs; but his brain was not very clear.
With them everything begins with fancy, and passions rise in the brain rather than in the blood, the poor, neglected, limited one-sided brain that might do so much better things than badgering itself into frantic endeavors to love.
His brainworked slowly, but he had a keen sense of the values of things.
It was as though some red-hot instrument had touched for a moment those delicate fibers of the brain which respond to acute pain or pleasure, in which lies the power of exquisite sensation, and had seared them quite away.
He rode with his eyes riveted on that slight figure before him, as though he wished to absorb it through the optic nerves and hold it in his brain forever.
And now this gentleman, who is not yet thirty, turns around and gives us an idyll that sings through one's brain like a summer wind and makes one feel young enough to commit all manner of indiscretions.
He had only his unshapen dreams that battled with him in dark places, the unborn that struggled in his brain for birth.
I guess I'll take Percy, anyway," she said simply, and that was all the good her clever business braindid her.
He has the kind of brain stuff that would vanquish difficulties in any profession, that might be put to building battleships, or solving problems of finance, or to devising colonial policies.
It seemed incredible and cruel that no physical memory of him should linger to be cherished among his kindred,--nothing but the dull image in the brain of that aged sister.
No answer could his vexed brain shape to these demands, .
Why, with such a quick, analytical brain as his, he might have carried on Darwin's researches to an extremer point of the origination of species than has yet been reached!
And while he remained silent, the silken sweet voice of the fairest woman he had ever seen once more sent its musical cadence through his brain in that fateful question: "Thou dost love me?
You mean to infer that thebrain cannot act without the influence of the soul?
His heart seemed turned to water--his brain was ablaze.
But I have known, too, many a poor fellow to whom that saving interval of sanity was denied, to whom a bullet through the tortured brain brought oblivion.
A shot that goes through his skull into his neck without touching his brain may kill him, but it will take time.
Night brings only the more terrible hours of darkness when sleep is banished from the tired eyes and the fever-racked brain knows no relief.
A bullet in the head not reaching the brain will never kill the brute on the spot, and is not necessarily fatal.
The front of an elephant's skull is enormously thick and thebrain is very small.
But even in the wildest frenzy of his ill-balanced brain he never pictures himself facing British troops in battle.
The words seemed to speak themselves in her brain just as she herself had spoken them that day, with the car slipping swiftly through the winter dusk.
Naturally, her brain became more and more excitable, and at the present moment she is practically mad.
During the attack of brain fever which followed, it had required all the skill of doctors and nurses to hold Nan back from the gates of death.
Somewhere in one of the cells of her brain she was conscious of a perfectly clear understanding of the fact that she must be quite mad to fight for escape from the sole thing in life she craved.
When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.
Finally another steps in and says, "I have a brain that thinks; I think all over; I am a thinking as well as a working man!
Call, call on the feverishbrain To bring aid to the gasping heart!
Thus this man raved on in an endless series of accusations, which seem more as if they came from the disordered brain of a homicidal maniac than from a man in his senses.
King Henry now began to show symptoms of the fearful brain malady which he had inherited from his grandfather, Charles VI.
If hisbrain had not given out he would have discharged the entire indebtedness in a few years.
At the end, when his strength was failing, his brain becoming darkened, the battle apparently going against him, his struggle against disaster became a moral victory and his character took on heroic proportions.
Working with a disabled brain but with heroic resolution, he wrote "Count Robert of Paris" and "Castle Dangerous.
Her active brain was alert and normal again, and she thought deeply as she walked to and fro, considering all possible phases of her present situation.
Mrs. Nitschkan robustly, looking up from a book of flies over which she had been poring, "think of getting a man on the brain like that.
A muffled scream escaped her lips, and she held her clenched fists to her temples as if she feared her brain would burst.
Where before he had reckoned values solely by capacities of brain and hand, he found now a new factor--the capacity of heart.
Her brain cleared, her fevered pulse became normal, the weariness that had racked her frame passed from her.
Mahr had leveled his stroke at a defenseless girl, but the weapon that should parry it would be wielded by a man's strong arm, backed by all the resources of brain and wealth.
Her captor stared at her intently, his brain crowded with strange thoughts.
Utter exhaustion finally overpowered his fevered brain and he fell into a troubled sleep, from which he was aroused by Denning's voice.
Her struggle to clear the mists from her brain rendered her more wildly feverish, then stupefied her to heavy sleep.
Something in her subconsciousbrain suggested Victor Mahr, and it was toward Washington Square that she bent her hurried steps.
In all that he afterwards wrote, every detail of his theory of the brain is as unhesitatingly asserted, and as confidently built upon, as any other doctrine of science.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
