He told himself that he was as obsessed by his colors now as when he was a five year old child; and that he was still imbuing his black and white world of early servitude with crayonic paint and chalk as if it had never ended.
His heart was palpitating less, his blood seemed to be cooling, and his thoughts seemed to be less obsessed by the sexual and the peculiar.
It was obsessed by being besmirched and colorizing the besmirching.
This was exacerbated in marriages, since in thought, if not in deed, marriages were with philandering men who were replicating creatures no different than them albeit ones obsessed by impulses for pleasure in wet disgorging with the multitude.
She was restless and uneasy and the thought of the trial proceeding at the court-house that day obsessed her.
Buddy's peaked face was flushed with a look that partially expressed the wild exultation that obsessed him.
His religion now measured by his capacity for revenge, Lem Lutts came out of prison, his young heart and soul and strength obsessed by a sacred quest.
The terrible chagrin and consternation that obsessed him, and the bullying presence of his furiously hated arch enemy made it one that lingered long in his memory.
The image of the diminutive frail creature concealed upstairs obsessed them, and Leonora felt guilty because she had been unwittingly absorbed in the gaiety of the opera while Aunt Hannah was in such danger.
He forgot that he had hated his father, and his mind was obsessed by a sentimental and pure passion for justice.
But here she was obsessed by her immediate environment.
I am prepared to state that I feel almost certain, if I spent another month bonefishing, I would become obsessed and perhaps lose my enthusiasm for other kinds of fish.
Either the genial judge was obsessed or else this waahoo was a great fish.
She had smiled at the gabble of the cathedral guide as he showed the obsessed troop, of which we had formed units, the place of martyrdom of Blessed Thomas, and her smile had had just that quality of superseder's contempt.
The Guardsman, however, was obsessed with the idea that he would discover some peerless bloom for which he would be paid hundreds of pounds by a London dealer.
There are still old-fashioned people who are obsessed with the idea that the more you eat the stronger you grow.
He was obsessed with the idea that should Diplomacy ever be revived, his fur coat might grow too shabby to be used for his first entrance, so it reposed perpetually and uselessly in camphor.
Still they work bravely away, obsessed with the idea of raising their own particular reef well out of the water at the cost of their own lives.
There were moments, toward the end of his vigil, when he could smile grimly at the terror that had obsessed him.
He was still sitting there, obsessed by his dismal meditations, when a shadow appeared in the doorway, and he looked up to see Rackliff, the stub of a cigarette in his fingers, gazing at him.
He felt himself a-quiver with the intensity of his emotions, and, seeing Grant so calm and self-possessed, he was obsessed by a yearning to strike him in the face.
If I dwell so much on details of a seemingly unimportant character, it is because during all my life I was obsessed with and haunted by these feline episodes of my childhood.
One evening I returned home more despondent than ever, my mind obsessed with dismal projects, my arms and hands in some manner agitated by a mad desire to kill, to strangle.
So far, nothing except this passion which obsessed me more and more every day, interested me at all.
I suffered cruelly, and the vision of the old man at the window obsessed me.
I had that feminine curiosity whichobsessed me to know what opinion he had of me.
There was another quality that was devilishly and subtly complex in the sudden mania which obsessed him.
He had run away from a laugh--a fool obsessed by a silly notion of the north country--in this new light it seemed silly.
I was obsessed and tormented by a fear of everything of which I was ignorant and some day ought to learn.
Love or rejection, as well as other sexual images, may become the objects of obsessions, and then cause the subjects much torment, but without harming their surroundings; for the obsessed generally remain passive.
These questions, to which he was unable to find a reply, obsessed and exhausted him.
This purpose obsessed their minds throughout the operations; and what they were looking for, under the furniture and in the cupboards, was one thing and one thing alone: the crystal stopper.
Clarisse, who, in spite of the thoughts that obsessed her, was interested in Lupin's story.
But meanwhile, given that love, and the potential parents may become so obsessed by it that they will disregard anything which, ordinarily, would interfere.
She could not recall her old playmate, being obsessed for the moment by the man beside her.
So obsessed was I with the desire to die that I feared I might commit the act in my sleep, and I was compelled to give my revolver away to others who were to lose it for me where my subconscious hand might not find it.
My brain could not think the proper thoughts because continually it was obsessed with the one thought that across the room in the liquor cabinet stood John Barleycorn.
Some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me.
He is obsessed by the idea of a League of Nations.
In childhood I was obsessed by the immensity, the atmosphere and the mystery of London.
He was also obsessed by a woe-begone creature who had run all the way from Putney Bridge to assist with the one portmanteau, but had been headed off by Martha and Elizabeth Barclay.
Over among the groups of possible principals Constance became obsessedwith sudden shyness.
Mary was obsessed with a wild desire to turn and run down the drive and away from this hateful girl.
This matter, which before she had never thought of, now obsessed her; and all women were divided for her into two classes, the expectant and the others.
She was saddened and overawed; not wrathful, not obsessed by a sense of injury.
Anthony was suddenly obsessedby the thought that, at Spring City, he would be only a day removed from Eliza.
Two years afterwards Morse was again obsessed with the marvels of electricity, as he had been in college.
The idea obsessed him to such an extent that he could do no other work, and yet he must live.
He was simply another "desert rat" obsessed with the idea that gold was to be found in those northern hills.
He erred, however, in supposing Overland to be obsessed with a mania for gold for its own sake.
After dinner he felt completely rid of the feeling which had obsessed him all day.
He was obsessed by an anxious desire that Madame de Renal should abandon her hand to him.
This idea obsessed Madame de Renal all the time in the church that she had counted on spending in prayer.
