When the tension broke Norvin saw that Caesar had lost again, and smiled at the excited conversation which ensued.
He seized the instrument eagerly, hoping for any news that would relieve the tension upon his nerves.
As an example of the finest artistic simplicity, rich with restrained pathos and quiet with keentension of feeling, we may choose the following.
So great was the tension that Grant finally sent General J.
An infinite quantity of chloroform may be absorbed with impunity if the tension be low, but a few drops will kill if the tension be high.
Other methods consist in determining the vapour tension by means of the vaporimeter of Geissler, or the boiling point by the ebullioscope.
When the slough gives way the pus escapes and, tension being relieved, pain ceases.
Sophy felt the strange tension of this halting talk.
She had been under a great nervous tension all day.
Episode of the Rings, by which the disguised wives entangle their husbands in a perplexity affording the audience the bursts of merriment needed as relief from the tension of the Trial Scene.
He had forced his passion down again, but there was tension about him still.
His hands still held her, but the tension went out of his grasp.
There was tension in her attitude, tension in the firm compression of her lips.
But there was no repose in her attitude, only a dumb tension that seemed to indicate suspense.
Il Moro raised himself very slowly, his face rigid, expressive less of grief than of extreme tension of spirit; he breathed heavily and loud like one toiling up the steep hillside.
Huge and careless, he sprawled in his chair, the tension and uncertainty gone now that he had made his resolution; and Campbell, studying his face, sensed that something was up and leaned forward eagerly.
We were at great pains to vary the experiments by which we sought to render the electrical tension of the torpedo sensible; but they were constantly without effect, and perfectly confirmed what M.
What then are the causes of this rupture of the equilibrium in the electric tension of the air?
The constant hearings, the confusing cross-questioning, the fear of punishment, finally the injurious effect of solitary confinement, shock and weaken the slight mental tension of the prisoner to a marked extent.
Since Saturday afternoon Ranny had remained more or less in a state of tension induced by the hurdle race, by the shock of seeing Violet Usher, and by the dinner at the "Golden Eagle.
Ranny's tension relaxed when Winny flung herself from side to side again and over, and lighted on her feet in the little curtseying posture, perfunctory and pathetic.
They were living, all three of them, in a state of tension most fretting to the nerves.
Every muscle of the satyr's sinewy frame is in tension as he moves forward in the dance, snapping his fingers to keep time; the pose is a marvel of skill.
Muscular tension is skilfully indicated in the Silenus, who stands holding above his head with his left hand a round frame, in which, as shown by the fragments, a vase of colored glass was standing at the time of the eruption.
My nerves were in such a condition of tension that, when I realised that fact, it was all I could do to prevent myself from screaming.
It was a state of moral tension which could not exist uninterruptedly, and could exist only in the classes for whom poetry was not written.
She was talking, at random, out of a tension she might not explain.
It was in his face, his flushed cheeks and flaming eyes, but chiefly in the air he brought with him--all tension and immoderate joy.
It was amazing, she thought, as she sank off, what a lessening of tension it was to have Electra gone.
Since war has been talked of, I have cast aside both camphor and sedative waters, but my nerves are in a state of such extraordinary tensionthat it seems as if, were they touched, sparks must fly from them.
Lumbar puncture in the crisis gave fluid under small tension in a few absolutely limpid drops.
If the patient inclined his head to the right, extended his hand at the wrist, and flexed the fingers forcibly, he could then flex the forearm somewhat, and a slight tension of the biceps and supinator longus developed.
They recall the fact that Charcot found a hysteria due to lightning stroke and to high tension electric accidents.
On passive motion, there was slight spastictension in the musculature of the right leg, and the patient said he felt marked pain.
Upon attempts to create passive movements of the lower limbs, severe shaking and trembling movements set in, followed by a general spastic tension of the leg musculature such that it could not be further flexed or extended.
Upon bending at the hip, there were subjective feelings of tension in the posterior parts of the thighs.
Lumbar puncture, July 28, yielded a clear fluid of normal tension without chemical or cytological changes.
At this his cousin's temper broke altogether, or he was willing to relieve the tension of his own mind by allowing it to seem as if it did so.
The motion eased the tension of his nervous distress and made speech less formal, less difficult.
It would, I think, have made the strain and tension of this waiting more tolerable had I been able to reach some point whence I could command a view of the bay, though it would have served no other end.
She rose abruptly from her seat, and moved out into the chancel Something--was it the hurry of her movement, the tension of her voice?
All his nervous tension seemed relaxed by the warm common-sense atmosphere of this trim little room, and his brother's composure.
There was a mysterious hint of tension about all that Walthew saw, and he felt his heart beat as he rode on.
Her clothes were wet and ought to be changed, but the tension on her nerves had not slackened much, and she felt restless and unwilling to be alone.
For all that, there was a curioustension in the atmosphere, and Evelyn noticed that soon after Macallister came up for a few minutes and looked carefully about, thick smoke rose from the funnel.
With her nerves at high tension and her heart beating fast, Evelyn left her hiding place in the cacti and stepped out into the middle of the road.
