It was only a rural audience; there was not much intelligence in it; but it had a character all its own.
It is, after all, not unnatural for a woman of considerable intelligence to aspire to the stage.
What imaginable intelligence could compensate her for the flat blueness of her eyes, the xanthous pallor of her hair, the doll-like pink of her cheeks?
As enlightenment grew in the world, intelligence and prudery revolted against it, and so it had to be abandoned.
By the same token, the relatively greater intelligence of actresses is explained.
Its averageintelligence is very low; it is inflammatory, vicious, idiotic, almost simian.
Would it not have been better still had it made provision to reach and rouse the intelligence through, and by means of it.
Thus the honour of the General Staff was saved, the Intelligence Officer vindicated and the vogue of Chockchaw brought to an untimely end.
Intelligence Officer) dropped in with his usual list of suspected hostile emplacements.
Lord Dunkeld had married a rosy-cheeked damsel of eighteen summers, daughter and heiress of a Lord of Session, was settled on his Scotch estate, and had come to think Edinburgh the focus of intelligence and ton.
He used to bring me the last intelligence from White's and the Cocoa Tree.
His native intelligence suggested a tumbler on the head of the cask, and the exploring hand proved the idea to be correct.
The boy, whose pinched, hunger-smitten face had an expression of almost supernatural intelligence on it, bestowed on me a quick, earnest glance.
A courier entrusted with this sad intelligence was despatched to the King.
And Konnemann went lately to my father at my request, and brought me back the joyful intelligence that he would assign me over my portion of his goods and property.
No lawyer is permitted to argue in disparagement of the intelligence or integrity of a witness, against whom the case itself afforded no particle of testimony.
It was he who ran with John to the sepulchre, on the first intelligence of the resurrection of Jesus, and with characteristic zeal rushed in, while John paused without the door.
Every variation, I doubt not, is so prepared in advance by a superior intelligence, but under the general laws which that intelligence has ordained, and not by a special interference.
The history of domesticated animals is a continuous proof that some at least of the lower creatures are capable of learning, and how learning can be achieved without intelligence has never yet been explained, and is never likely to be.
The first requisite for intelligence is the possession of memory.
The inference he draws ‘from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.
He contrives to reconcile this obduracy to his own intelligence by laying stress on the candid admission made by Darwinians, that the Theory of Development is for the present that which they call it,--a Theory, and not a demonstration.
The almost exclusive sources of intelligence on these questions are the correspondence of the period, a portion of which is printed in the volumes of 1813 devoted to Aubrey's Collections, and another in Nichols's Anecdotes.
The gray eyebrow, too, hanging over the dark eye, and seeming to veil its fire, gave an expression of inquiring perspicacity to the whole face, which impressed one more with the idea of intelligence than of sincerity.
He did not feel quite sure, indeed, that he had not betrayed a part of his own secrets while endeavouring to gain intelligence of the views of others.
So make your mind easy, for not an hour shall elapse after I have received the intelligence before it is in your possession.
It is necessary for me, my dear boy, to go up to London at once, to break the sad intelligence of Lord Hadley's death to his poor mother.
It was not that he did not feel the intelligence as a relief; but at that moment the sense of having been injured was stronger upon him than ever.
Remember--you, William, carry the intelligence at the first sight of them, while we hold them in parley as long as possible.
With a gleam of almost human intelligence in his eye Jack, the barkeeper, set up the smoked glass.
It seems probable, as these columns are extended to a considerable length, that the object of this successive change of leaders is to convey constant intelligence to those in the rear, of what is going forward in the van.
The language of ants, however, is not confined merely to giving intelligence of the approach or presence of danger; it is also co-extensive with all their other occasions for communicating their ideas to each other.
He wished to ascertain whether, when they had lost a queen (intelligence which traverses a whole hive in about an hour) they discovered the sad event by their smell, their touch, or any unknown cause.
By this action they appear to communicate the sad intelligence to those who receive the blow, who in their turn impart it in the same way to others.
This is the usual order of their march; and the object of it may be to communicate intelligence more readily from one part of the column to another.
Queer objects of the country had come from all parts of Devon to assert their intelligence as witnesses in the various trials.
With higher intelligence came also a greater sensitiveness to pain.
I see that you are a man of intelligence and education, and I believe that you would succeed in almost any calling to which you would apply yourself with earnestness and industry.
It is obvious to any one of intelligence that such a grand mansion would not be complete without a well-selected library, and that such a library could not be selected or arranged by an ordinary man of affairs.
Nature herself is their kind physician, and sometimes not unfrequently brings them by her holy skill back to the world of clear intelligence and serene affection.
In my own case, I admit, I should not mind having had more of the other training, as it has turned out that my work in life is of the sort where a quick intelligence counts for more than an elegant deportment.
I hope I have the horror, said to be peculiar to all generous minds, of what are commonly called facts, and also the intelligence not to attempt what I know I cannot do.
He was not following the course intelligence had directed; he was not embarking on a journey his best interests would have prompted; on the contrary, he knew himself mad, foolish.
This intelligence nearly annihilated my mother, whose mind, though not strongly organised, was tenderly susceptible.
From thence, in a few days after his arrival, he took his passage in a merchantman for a distant part of the globe; and from that hour nointelligence ever arrived of his fate or fortune.
He communicated this intelligence to me, and at the same time informed me that he must absolutely depart from Trevecca immediately.
I immediately conveyed the intelligence to my lovely Duchess of Devonshire, and she wrote me a letter of kind congratulation; she was then at Chatsworth.
It is curious how the most epoch-making intelligence is often given quite quietly with no flourish of trumpets, no preparation; just as the most momentous decisions are almost always made at once, without much reflection.
He faced the General with the intelligence that he would find his dining-room, his hall, and a great part of his staircase a mass of charred ruins by reason of the fusing of the wires of the recently installed electric light.
The intelligenceas to the trains was immediately despatched to Crook, and I pushed on to join him with Merritt's command.
No one has questioned the patriotism, integrity, and great intelligence of General Warren.
General Grant, who on the 5th was accompanying General Ord's column toward Burkeville Junction, did not receive this intelligence till nearly nightfall, when within about ten miles of the Junction.
From Brownsville I despatched all these men to important points in northern Mexico, to glean information regarding the movements of the Imperial forces, and also to gather intelligence about the ex-Confederates who had crossed the Rio Grande.
Robberts was despatched to see if he was in his bed, and returned with the intelligence that the bed had not even been opened.
No one was more elated by this announcement than our friend Kinch, who had, in fact, grown quite ashy in his complexion from confinement and grief, and was now thrown by this intelligence into the highest possible spirits.
What awful intelligence for his family," said Mr. Walters; "they are already half distracted about him.
As Mr. Robberts concluded, he took his hat and departed, giving Charlie the cheering intelligence that he should expect him early next morning.
