He would have avoided them, as he had avoided others, had it not been that he heard his name mentioned, and was morbidly curious to hear what they were saying about him.
Still less did he feel that, when we perversely refuse to apply our active faculties to the catholic interests of the world, they turn morbidly into channels of research the least akin to their real genius.
Pope was morbidly sensitive to slights, morbidly eager for praise, and extremely irritable.
It was a richly-furnished apartment, morbidly severe in its decorations, which were symptomatic of a gloomy dyspepsia of art, then quite prevalent.
He was so morbidly shy from living alone in his dreamland that he could not open a letter without trembling.
The spleen is morbidly positive, and probably enlarged, while the liver is too negative.
First ascertain if the kidneys be morbidly positive--urine scant and too highly colored.
In treating this case, I will place my negative electrode either on some healthy part, or, if there be perceptible anywhere in the system a morbidly negative part, as is often the case, I will place my negative pole there.
So, too, I said I would treat a negative disease, such as amaurosis or torpidity of liver, with the negative pole, placing the positive pole on either some healthy or morbidly positive part.
Each day I determine to spend my evening usefully, but try as I may, when the time comes I feel too weary to do good work, and so morbidly recur to these memories.
But I am no Alexander to cut the knot of entanglements which the fates have woven about me, and so, Midas-like, I sit morbidly whispering the hidden grief, too great for me to bear in silence longer.
In her early days, long before she made fiction, she was morbidly religious; she became in the fulness of time one of the intellectually emancipated.
The heat seems to sharpen their desires and morbidly arouse all their senses.
Throughout early life up to adult age she was a mystery to herself, and morbidly conscious of some fundamental difference between herself and other people.
Those other scenes were his foes, because, realizing them morbidly in relation to himself, he was cowed by their big indifference to him, and felt puny, a nobody before them.
The morbidly gloomy one moment often shout madly on the next.
The stupefaction of alcohol was gone, leaving his brain morbidly alive.
Not as you so morbidly put it, silly girl,--certainly not right.
I know that in all countries, our own as well as yours, love is so morbidly sensitive and jealous that it is always apt to invent imaginary foes to itself.
Still, we fear, there is room for a doubt whether the world would ever have seen Childe Harold if the great poet had not happened to be also a morbidly vain and, in some respects, remarkably small man.
Real genius is independent of sex, and first-rate writers, whether they are men or women, are not morbidlyin love with an idealized portrait of themselves.
Sometimes this atmosphere is morbidly oppressive, sometimes it is relieved by gay, maniacal bursts of laughter.
She becomes morbidly interested in his doings and asks imprudent questions which the man rightfully construes as evidences of desire for the life he describes.
But there is no more terrible obstacle to common sense than a morbidly scrupulous conscience.
But these two were not unhealthy, normorbidly sensitive, nor otherwise different from normal human beings.
I confess my first feeling was that she needed to be soundly shaken; but after all when a child is morbidly wrong in her feelings the particular way in which she shows it is not of much consequence.
I might have brooded morbidly through the days as they brought nearer and nearer the time when George was to be her husband instead of mine.
Indeed, he had no place for them now, and was, besides, more morbidly bent than ever on making good the proud words he had spoken.
His mother had always been regarded as an eminently religious woman, and yet he knew that she was morbidly sensitive to the world's opinion and society's verdict.
Mrs. Haldane and her daughters were not without natural affection, but they were morbidlysensitive to public opinion.
Society is too unrelenting, and does not sufficiently recognize the struggle he has made, and is yet making; and he is so morbidly sensitive that he will not take anything that even looks like social alms.
On the contrary, if the atmosphere contained a much less proportion of vital air, it would not stimulate the body sufficiently; the excitability would morbidly accumulate, and diseases of debility would occur.
But of late she had become morbidly anxious, on account of the disorganisation which delay was causing among the United Irishmen.
She was constantly fretting morbidly about the slowness of Tim's tread, as people will who are devoured with impatience, and yet half-dread the fulfilment of their wishes.
In this instance the latter was recognised by Clare, and drew from her one of those bitter tirades against Byron, which, natural enough in her at the outset, became in the course of years quite morbidly venomous.
In fact, she was almost morbidly averse to the least allusion to herself as an authoress.
Madame de Villefort administered deadly potions to her relatives under the impulse of a morbidly intense maternal love, which centred all her moral and intellectual faculties on the idea of making her son the sole heir to a large estate.
Every tendency of this kind, which is not checked or balanced and in some way rounded off in the growth of the character, becomes morbidly strong and leads to a sort of insanity.
In the class of ill-poised minds, yclept cranks, just mentioned, the spirit of imitation is peculiarly strong and morbidly contagious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morbidly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
