The giant did, indeed, seem to be laboring under the stress of some emotion.
He noticed that the man whom he had helped save from the fireworks blaze was under the stress of some excitement.
The men who have written on the subject lay great stress on a loving disposition and an amiable temper, which are indeed two most powerful factors in the scene of wedded happiness.
In doing this he laid stress on the conflict between Capital and Labour.
The Communists lay stress on the common interests of the whole proletariat and of the collective movement.
By stress of brain, which counts among mules as among men, the old bellsharp had risen to the rank of herd leader, and the Bear Shield ponies would drill and wheel and go charging off at his signal.
He had been withheld from feeding that pride by stress of the rickety cross in his veins; he lacked the downright courage which was the enterprise's first demand.
Her brain seemed at times unable to support the stress placed upon it--the excitement more than she could bear.
By way of explanation, I may tell you that my patient came in here, with two more gentlemen, in a yacht, driven to the bay by stress of weather.
She laid a stress upon the word "sister," as if referring to the young fellow's manly reply to the dandy.
There are some people of our denomination who go to an extreme and declare that the water does wash away sins, and they seem to put more stress on the baptism than on the believing.
I never thought Christ laid any stress upon form, but rather upon the condition of the heart.
There crouching 'mid the scarlet bloom, Voluptuously the leopard lies, And through the tropic forest gloom The flaming of his feline eyes Stirs with intoxicating stress The pulses of the leopardess.
He lays special stress on botanical evidence since that pertains to the variable atmosphere of the lands, and hence furnishes a better guide than does the evidence of animals that lived in the relatively unchanging water of the oceans.
Perhaps we are even now approaching some star that will some day give rise to a period of climatic stress like that of the fourteenth century, or possibly to a glacial epoch.
If the conditions which now prevail at times of sunspot maxima are magnified a little they seem to produce periods of climatic stress such as those of the fourteenth century.
Not only central Europe and the shores of the North Sea were marked by climatic stress during the fourteenth century, but Scandinavia also suffered.
One of these has already been discussed in Chapter VI, where the climatic stress of the fourteenth century was described.
The end of each such period of stress has found the life of the world nearer to the high mentality which reaches out to the utmost limits of space, of time, and of thought in the search for some explanation of the meaning of the universe.
Thus the main periods of climatic stress are the most conspicuous milestones upon the upward path toward more varied adaptation.
The New World as well as the Old appears to have been in a state of climatic stress during the first half of the fourteenth century.
The Climatic Stress of the Fourteenth Century 98 VII.
One other possibility may be mentioned, although little stress should be laid on it.
Or: "Emphasis is a peculiar stress of voice, used in the utterance of words specially significant.
Accent is a stress of voice on a syllable in a word.
Our Grammarians have agreed to consider this Stress of the Voice as the Accent in English; and therefore the Accent and long Quantity coincide in our Language.
Emphasis is when a particular stress is laid on some word in a sentence.
Accent is the laying a peculiar stress of the voice on a certain letter or syllable in a word.
The stress is laid on long and short syllables indiscriminately.
What syllables havestress in a pure trochaic line?
Brethren, we see in all those writers who have treated of the Trinity, that much stress is laid upon this eternal generation of the Son, the everlasting sonship.
At least, it illustrates the stress which the Persian poets put upon a true, undying devotion, and the Orientals consider it the very personification of faithful love.
We were much surprised at the well-fed appearance of the population, both old and young, for we had heard so much of food shortages, and the Germans when they surrendered had laid such stressupon it.
In time of stress he was a tower of strength and could be counted upon to set his men an example of cool and judicious daring.
True, sir, but it has its importance, and stress is to be laid upon the due observance of it.
I endeavor to show people how wrong it is to lay undue stress on the ordinance, forgetting whether they have that which is signified by it, and which alone gives it value.
I fancy that more stress was laid upon the last item by his grandmother than upon the first.
They demanded full independence for Bohemia, some of them laying greater stress on her historical rights, some on the natural right of Czecho-Slovaks to liberty.
Their newspapers published official reports with reluctance, and between the lines laid stress on news unfavourable to Austria so as to keep up the spirit of the people.
Considerable stress is laid (in the instructions) upon the quantity of oxygen mixture used being determined by rough experiments.
It follows, therefore, that the number of equipotential surfaces per unit length can represent this limit, or rather the stress which leads to disruptive discharge.
It came in the hard, cold tones to which he was used, when stress of affairs demanded the concentrated force which lay behind his methods.
Time enough for such deviations when stress of circumstances demanded.
His wealth counted for nothing in the stress of his feelings.
It is for this reason that I lay so muchstress on the combination of two apparent opposites in the Universal Mind, the union of intelligence with impersonality.
This region is to be found within ourselves; it is the region of pure ideas; and it is for this reason that I have laid stress on the two aspects of spirit as pure thought and manifested form.
This is a point on which too much stress cannot be laid, for there follow from it the most important consequences.
Like many women under the stress of a deep emotion she wrote with a singular eloquence.
This social strategist had volunteered one of her rare visits to Carthage under the stress of bad financial weather.
The kidneys, therefore, are not liable, as in temperate climates, to be irritated by excrementitious matter, for the stress of excretion falls upon the lungs.
Spuller also laid great stress on the necessity of a thoroughly practical education, and was extremely severe on the 'Blue-stockings' of literature.
Mr. Symonds is right also in the stress he lays on the extraordinary combination in Jonson's work of the most concentrated realism with encyclopaedic erudition.
To me it seems exactly the reverse, as the stress is always laid on the word Minor, never on the word Canon.
It became a point of honour with capitular bodies to lay more stress on maintaining their chartered rights against the Bishop than on working with the Bishop to promote the ends for which both Bishops and Chapters were founded.
The wife of the labor contractor seemed under stress of some excitement, as she faced the girls after the warning.
Betty laughed at this--it was characteristic of Mollie, once the immediate stress was removed, to revert to the matter that had previously claimed her attention, and this had been their luncheon.
Yet its fragmentary character at best precludes putting any great stress upon it.
But in nearly all the cases stress was laid upon the bodily marks.
It was an expression of great reluctance to lay much stress upon charges of witchcraft--an expression upon the part of the highest ecclesiastical authority in England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
