It was the despair in the heart of the nation which gave intensity to the religious instinct at this time.
Of course the nation assigned to this duty would hold the predominant influence in North African affairs, and it was this large stake which gave such intensity to the game.
It may be also that the memory of her desertion by the Church, once her only friend and champion, gave such intensity to the welcome of a "Reformation" by the people.
It passed before him, as he spoke, so vividly, that, in the intensity of his earnestness, he presented what he described to me with greater distinctness than I can express.
The Manóbo speaks in no angelic whisper on ordinary occasions, but at a solemn time like this his vocal chords twang with all the intensity of which they are capable.
We see here how closely organized this band of revolutionists was, and the intensity of their love for each other, together with the sense of fun and adventure in all they did.
Tauler strove with equal intensity of zeal to promote the temporal and the spiritual welfare of men.
And because of the intensity to which she roused him, he sought her.
There he lay in the white intensity of his search, and his voice gradually filled her with fear, so level it was, almost inhuman, as if in a trance.
He kissed her, and the intensity of passion began to burn him again.
And he, with all his soul's intensity directing his pencil, could feel her warmth inside him like strength.
It urged him to an intensity like madness, which fascinated him, as drug taking might.
From his mother he drew the life-warmth, the strength to produce; Miriam urged this warmth into intensity like a white light.
And she was cut off from ordinary life by her religious intensity which made the world for her either a nunnery garden or a paradise, where sin and knowledge were not, or else an ugly, cruel thing.
And yet the very intensity of the efforts at suppression defeated the object aimed at.
They would have been amusing, nevertheless, but for the horrible intensity of their resolve to make me see that nightmare of a bridge.
It is evident that the expansive principle, as here explained, involves the condition of a variation in the intensity of the moving power.
This necessary change in the intensity of the impelling power is obtained by restraining the steam in the boiler by the throttle-valve, as already described in the locomotive engines on the railroad.
The emotional nature of music causes it to appeal to their minds with such intensity that they make a fetish of their idol, and fall down and worship not only him but everything he touches and looks upon.
For from this very accession of vital intensity we must account for the absence in the fishes of all the formative, or rather (if our language will permit it) fabricative instincts.
The intensity of this latter power in the fishes, is shown both in their voracity and in the number of their eggs, which we are obliged to calculate by weight, not by tale.
Thus, the intensity of its sense of smell has been placed beyond doubt, and rises in the extent of its sphere far beyond the irritable sense, or the feeling, in insects.
With the ascent in power, the intensity of individuation keeps even pace; and from this we may explain all the characteristic distinctions between this class and that of the vermes.
I was right there on the scene of the history-making, and I found an intensity of interest in my excursions such as I had never experienced before.
My reader must remember that we were in the tropics, with a blazing sun looking down on us with an intensity that made one long for Greenland's icy mountains to cool us.
It gives the story of Cain's crime and punishment, and I read the graphic narrative with an intensity of interest difficult to describe.
Lapidoth, in adjusting himself to what was coming, had not been able to foresee the exact intensity of the lightning or the exact course it would take--that it would not fall outside his frame but through it.
Gwendolen with a hard intensity unaccountable in incidental talk like this.
Deronda, with an intensity of opposition in feeling that was almost bitter.
We object less to be taxed with the enslaving excess of our passions than with our deficiency in wider passion; but if the truth were known, our reputed intensity is often the dullness of not knowing what else to do with ourselves.
She went on with the same intensity and a sort of pale illumination in her face.
Her power of hating a coarse, familiar-mannered man, with clumsy hands, was now relaxed by the intensity with which she hated his contrast.
There was a calm intensityof life and richness of tint in his face that on a sudden gaze from him was rather startling, and often made him seem to have spoken, so that servants and officials asked him automatically, "What did you say, sir?
These instantly blazed up, and burnt with such intensity that the adjoining habitation was presently in flames.
It was the prelude to that intensity of production in modern times which is the result of international commerce.
All this necessitated an intensity of production hitherto unknown, and the invention of new methods.
All this shows the intensity of his feelings and his earnest inquiries.
Few faces have ever been painted which convey depth and intensityof feeling in a more affecting way.
The carving, the bold relief of the chiseling, have a vividness andintensity of expression, surpassing some of the best work of Italy and France.
The depth and intensityof the colors are remarkable.
But it was not brain power; it was only intensity of feeling--nervous feeling.
What saved me was the intensity of my passion for Art, and a moral revolt against any action that I thought could or would definitely compromise me in that direction.
Intensity of a suffering existence may compensate the want of extension; and a boundless depth of misery may be a transformed expression for a boundless duration of misery.
He caught her hand in his with a gesture that he would have made one of gallantry, but that in its tremulous intensity became a piteous supplication.
Their expression was one of dogged defiance, and their gaze was fixed with such scowling intensity upon the void space before them that I involuntarily glanced behind me to see what they were looking at.
He had fixed an insulated iron rod from the roof of his house to his laboratory; this conducted the atmospheric electricity to him, and he measured its intensity every day.
In temperate climates there are scarcely any storms in winter; they begin in the spring, and attain their maximum ofintensity in the heat of summer.
