Intellectually, he represented its many-sidedness attained through penetration of thought, and a keenness of observation, profiting from experience, extended into every sphere.
The keenness of this pursuit saved him from the blemish of egoism which aloofness from his surroundings would otherwise have forced upon him.
I played with her, but her young keenness detected the cloven hoof of duty.
They fought the action at Landakai in a brilliant manner, working over high hills, under a burning sun, with the greatest alacrity, and showing everywhere the greatest keenness to close with the enemy.
But when he realises that all is empty display, and that his regiment is a sword too costly to be drawn, he naturally loses keenness and betakes himself to polo as a consolation.
The tenacity with which he strove to hide this inward drama made it the more vivid for him; as we hear with the more keenness what we wish others not to hear.
The ear of the South has always felt the charm of rhythmical or melodious speech, with a keenness of pleasure generally denied to our colder temperament.
Many of Pliny's Letters, like the dialogue De Oratoribus, reveal the keenness with which in those days questions of style were debated.
She told the pathetic half of her story, to suit the gentle ear, whose critical keenness was lost in compassion.
Nelson veiled the keenness of his watch, as he crouched for a spring, with a drowsy appearance of caution and indifference.
Danby was a skeleton; and his meagre and wrinkled, though handsome and noble, face strongly expressed both the keenness of his parts and the restlessness of his ambition.
Sir William Twisden, member for the county of Kent, spoke on the same side with great keenness and loud applause.
And yet, with all his goodnature, such was the keenness of his wit that scoffers whose sarcasm all the town feared stood in craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset.
Everywhere he felt her wonderful keenness of perception, that intuitive understanding of men and manners which had kept her for so long the reigning belle among her younger rivals.
In the midst of his sorrow a sudden shame possessed him, and he felt all at once that his heart was pierced by the unearthly keenness of the dead eyes.
Then there comes to us also a certain noodle with a dull and stupid air, but who has the keenness of a demon, and is more mischievous than an old monkey.
Enough has been said, perhaps, about the games to indicate what an important place they are assigned in the general programme of the Britannia, and with what keenness and uniform success they are pursued.
A great season this; certainly no school could hope to display greater keenness about cricket, and few would attain such a measure of success.
The remembrance of what had happened began to grow in force andkeenness and, of a sudden, the thought of Calypso smote me like a sword!
Some excellent training meanwhile was being obtained on the racecourse at Dainville, and several rifle competitions were introduced to add to the keenness of the men.
The keenness and pride of the Quartermaster in his band were as delightful to observe as his remarks when a cornet player was put out of action at Oppy were startling.
Here, however, that nature-love that overrides even a fowler's keenness stepped in.
Tom’s brain was as clear as crystal, and he reviewed his position with a keenness that surprised himself He saw that the evidence was strong against him—damningly strong.
Elihu looked at Tom as though he would bore him through and through with the keenness of his gaze, and Tom looked steadfastly back again at him.
With the samekeenness of vision Mr. Rockefeller and the trustees selected as Dr.
On the 8th and 15th October two enemy planes were shot down behind our lines, and the keenness of our airmen for combat made the German aviators extremely careful.
The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight.
To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
It possesses his sobriety of tone and treatment, his limpidity and minuteness of touch, his keenness of observation.
You cannot judge of the strength or keenness of a dagger by merely estimating its power in the grasp of a failing hand.
Such curious hibernation was early hinted to the keenness of Schiaparelli, and most incomprehensible as well as difficult of verification at that stage the phenomenon was.
Schiaparelli was the one who first noticed variation in the look of the seas, and the discovery was as much due to the assiduity with which he followed the planet opposition after opposition as to the keenness with which he scanned it.
This was a sign of success he was destined to experience in far greater measure the following year, but the keenness of the thrill could never be matched again.
He glanced into her face with a keenness that somewhat belied his professed incapacity to be in earnest, and remarked with seeming lightness: "Feeling a bit down on your luck, eh?
You wouldn't have to tell him anything about me," watching her with a sudden keenness in his eyes.
