Since music thus directly and powerfully affects the chief vital processes, it is not surprising that it should indirectly influence various viscera and functions.
If I am right, I suppose flower scents should affect women more powerfully than men in a sexual way.
All this is narrated in the novel with a wealth of fascinating and absorbing detail, making it one of the most powerfully written and exciting works of fiction given to the world in years.
There would have to be a very seaworthy little steamer, powerfully engined for service on that stormy coast, and armed to defend herself against prowling pirate junks.
As a matter of fact, the force in Natal was not, and has not since been, sufficiently strong for attack of a foe in such powerfully intrenched positions.
Trying to deny to others the very rights they had fought to secure for themselves, yet their example operated more powerfully than their arguments, even when these were made of ropes and of thumb-screws.
English insularity and patriotism drew them powerfully to the bosom of their own peculiar communion.
They will tend powerfully to preserve us from foreign collisions, and to enable us to pursue uninterruptedly our cherished policy of "peace with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
All the feelings restrained so long by the river work, and regatta amenities, and Exhibition in Paris, now came forth powerfully in a flow of enthusiasm.
These town pups remind me powerfully of small editurs prowlin' around for news.
We felt the heat most powerfully in ascending it, and were glad to take refuge under a continued bower of vines, which runs for miles along its summit.
In cooling, they contracted strongly, and drew the plates together so powerfully that it required a force of from 1 to 6 tons to each rivet, to cause the plates to slide over each other.
These replies fully satisfied the Chinese, and at the same time wrought very powerfully in the Commodore's favour.
These remonstrances, though not without effect, did not immediately operate sopowerfully as Mr. Anson could have wished.
He should transfer to the stage the greatest possible reality, and move us powerfully by shocking our senses with the sight of frightful pains.
Now, every word from Swandale always powerfully moved him, so I was surprised now that his first words were: "but what is the matter with Fritz?
We all know that nothing more powerfully affects our fellow-men than the exhibition of this placable temper.
In the case of the fool it is always very obvious how powerfully the tongue affects the condition of the speaker.
The legs were powerfully constructed, and the feet were adapted to assist the bird in rapid motion through the water.
The emptiness of the life and death of solitary individuality has never been so powerfully and efficaciously summed up as in the pages of Byron.
And once more, why not another time all those steps, to perform which the views of Eternal Rewards so powerfully assist us?
But the dissolving and disintegrating philosophical discussions that soon followed the death of Socrates, strengthened by political events, tended powerfully to destroy this feeling.
From this ignominy Cremieux hoped to free them, and he was powerfully supported by Solomon Munk, who appears to have been destined to be the intermediary between the European and the Egyptian Jews--between the past and the present.
Superficiality sees in all the events of life and of nature, however powerfully they may appeal to the heart, only the sport of Chance or the inflexible laws of heartless Necessity.
Mannheimer did not possess original ideas or deep knowledge of Jewish literature; but he was powerfully swayed by his own convictions, which he cherished and disseminated, not hiding them away as buried treasures.
If his manners put me in mind of those of a Frenchman, his local prejudices brought powerfully to my recollection those of a Spaniard.
The first was about sixty; she was very powerfully made, had stern grey eyes and harsh features, and was dressed in the ancient Welsh female fashion, having a kind of riding-habit of blue and a high conical hat like that of the Tyrol.
They bring with them their own national instincts and characteristics, and, obviously, the greater their gifts the more powerfully must their influence operate against the ideal of a national school of British music.
The farce of police supervision and the insults of the English law sin against morality fifty times more powerfully than any of Sudermann's novels.
But more will be said on this point hereafter, we may now only note that the masses are only bound to know those histories which can most powerfullydispose their mind to obedience and devotion.
