No sign of fear, but rather a profound astonishment sat upon his features.
They shared the mostprofound sympathy for the sufferers as well as for themselves.
Possibly not--it is unimportant enough, and to this day the sequel of the incident is buried in a mystery as profound as that of the Grey Room.
This war, which was begun to put down imperial aggression upon the political liberties, of certain peoples, has evolved into a profound social upheaval, touching the most remote countries.
With his head in his hands in a profound melancholy he gazed about him.
She could herself scarcely think, but that through her own guilt she had fallen into such profound wretchedness.
God's word from the country," thought Felix, taking his seat after a profound bow near to the Parson, whom he thought he had already seen somewhere.
She was so accustomed to live here in profound solitude, that she rose up terrified, as at the most did a sparrow fly against the window or a pigeon settle on the coping.
Among the masses of the people, however, a profound religious movement was beginning.
Burr made a profound impression on John Quincy Adams.
This attitude toward the question makes for a feeling of family solidarity and loyalty no less profound than that between other parents and children.
Another profound silence, then Myers said, "I 'lowed it might a be'n done by my petrified man.
The final echo died far off; the profound silence which had followed him all day settled again like an intangible presence over the gorge.
To find upon this bare mountain-top, among cloud solitudes so profound as these, such overpowering evidence of the labor and strength of man, sent thrilling through our breasts a wonder that was akin to awe.
Our bodies shuddered as we turned and left the scene of this tremendous tragedy; that was the more appalling to us because of the profound mystery in which was buried everything related to it save the fact that it had been.
The most profound silence reigned without; except the sentinels, everyone in the camp was asleep.
Two men especially had towards him a profound antipathy and an instinctive fear which nothing could dissipate.
The Spanish-Americans have made a profound study of it, and none can equal them in the way in which they manage it.
Each one waited with secret anxiety for what was about to transpire; the silence was so profound and solemn that the flight of a bird, if there had been any birds in that desolate plain, would have been heard.
But when she perceived the young man, whose bearing was so calm, and whose countenance was so radiant, a sudden reaction took place in her, and she immediately passed from the mostprofound sadness to the most lively joy.
The Cougar had great influence over the mind of the young chief, who professed for him a profound respect.
He was sturdy in bodily frame, vigorous in mind, profound in political sagacity and utterly fearless in denouncing the errors of his countrymen.
For an instant a profound silence reigned; the halfpennies clinked faintly, jingling against each other.
Everything was still; and there was something hopeless and oppressive in this profound hush of exhausted nature.
Sancho shrugged his shoulders, obeyed, and sat down, and all the duchess's damsels and duennas gathered round him, waiting in profound silence to hear what he would say.
In his profound compassion for the Indians he maintained that the negroes were better fitted for slave labor than the more delicate natives.
What darkling secret, mystery profound This birth to Life, while Life is doomed withhold Whate'er the world contain for Life to use!
And inasmuch as they were the sole depositories of this profound and occult learning, to say nothing of those heroic tales and romances in which the Celtic people so delighted, they received high honor wherever they went.
Its profound moral force apart, and judged purely as a literary force, the Bible, admirably and idiomatically translated, had an incalculable effect.
A poet must be capable of detachment from the actual world in which he lives, however profound his interest in its great problems.
For about a year he lives in enforced retirement on the Upper Tagus (Ribatejo), pouring out his profound passion and grief in a number of beautiful sonnets and elegies.
Quin's amazement at this request was so profound that for a moment he did not answer.
Before she knew it, she too was gazing absently into space, shaken with the profound realization that here beside her, his shoulder touching hers, was one who had lived more in a day than she had ever lived in a life-time.
The writers, each and all, expressed a profound despondency, Savary in particular asserting that everything was to be feared should the enemy approach the capital.
The humbled marshal confessed his fault, displaying profound contrition, and was speedily restored to partial favor, being intrusted with the command, under Ney, of a portion of the young guard.
Passing through the corridors, the sly diplomatist respectfully greeted Prince Orloff, and begged to lay his profound respects at the feet of the Czar.
This was the only moment of excitement; the witnesses of the long and trying scene have left on record the profound impression made on them by Napoleon's dignity and admirable conduct throughout.
These men had been sent forward from Paris in spite of the profoundgloom now prevalent there.
He was, on the whole, calm and self-reliant, exhibiting signs of profound emotion only in connection with important decisions.
Outside its pages there was profound silence and complete ignorance in Europe regarding the now mysterious convict, buried to the world.
The theologians have ever preferred the more profound doctrine of the Hymn of the Logos [John i.
This profound error may be implied: but if any assumption so hard to understand were really required, the fallacy would have little force with the generality.
However profound the calculations, it must be from observed laws, or supposed analogues of them, that we start.
Doubtless the old man had seen it coming; he heard the galling proposal with a face which showed nothing stronger than profound surprise.
Before he had sat half an hour at the merry table, he could look back at his profound depression of the morning with smiling wonder.
The most polished and profound speech conceivable is answered when a jackass mounts the platform and brays out something about the gallant boys in gray.
Sharlee studied them with bewilderment mixed with profound melancholy.
The president sat up late on those evenings when social diversions did not claim his time, going over and over his faculty list with a critical eye, and always with profound disapproval.
His melancholy seems neither so profound nor so touching as Mrs. Humphrey Ward and his other critics would have one believe.
I am sure they owe that to the immense fund of unexhausted power given them by their mothers, who are profound wells of calm vitality.
As a rule, however, it is the profound stirring of the emotions which wakes the memory to activity.
There is something pathetic in that long era of profound distrust of his own nature and impulses.
I heard with profound concern that Chastel's malady had suddenly become aggravated; that she had passed the night in the greatest suffering.
Chapter 16 The violent fever into which I had fallen did not abate until the third day, when I fell into a profound slumber, from which I woke refreshed and saved.
He was a painter of the first rank, an incomparable sculptor, a great architect, an eminent engineer, a charming poet, and a profound scholar in anatomy and physiology.
Sidenote: Profound Changes in the Germanies] It was in the Germanies, in fact, that Napoleon's achievements were particularly striking.
He too is professor of medicine, and co-author of a profound work with his master and relative by marriage--Sir William Osler.
To the end he was an assiduous student and a very profound practitioner.
He therefore advanced with three profound congees, and craved permission to lay his credentials at the feet of the Scottish monarch, in order to be perused at his best leisure.
He entered with a profound salutation to Sir Robert Hazlewood.
Now it must be confessed that our friend Sampson, although a profound scholar and mathematician, had not travelled so far in philosophy as to doubt the reality of witchcraft or apparitions.
He made two or three profound reverences to Mannering, and then, standing erect, patiently waited an explanation of his commands.
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