"Intensity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... face had altered; the half mischievous audacity in defiance of her situation—the gay, impudent confidence in herself and in these wild comrades of hers, had given place to something more serious, more ardent—the youthful intensity that smiles through the flaming enchantment of ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... narrative, although these feelings were within his heart, he said little or nothing. He listened with apparent calmness, offering no remark, though at that time the thoughts of his heart were so intense. In fact, it was through the very intensity of his feelings that he forced himself to keep silence. For if he had spoken he would have revealed all. If he had spoken he would have made known, even to the most careless or the most preoccupied listener, ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... show little clans with a common ownership of land hardly larger than a parish, but with all the patriotic feeling of larger nations held with an intensity rare in modern states. The history of these clans and of very small nations like the ancient Greek states shows that the social feeling assumes its most binding and powerful character where the community is large enough to allow free play to the various interests of human ...
— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson
... the face of a young saint, yet with white hair and perhaps 50 years on his back, is standing near the stone in a trance of intense melancholy, looking over the hills as if by mere intensity of gaze he could pierce the glories of the sunset and see into the streets of heaven. He is dressed in black, and is rather more clerical in appearance than most English curates are nowadays; but he does not wear the collar and waistcoat of a parish priest. He is roused from his ...
— John Bull's Other Island • George Bernard Shaw
... conveyed by a name to which the Catholics in Berry had attached so much dread? It was natural that one should regard with some terror a man whose deeds had been so exaggerated by vulgar report; but this fact did not explain the intensity of mademoiselle's emotion at the moment of my disclosure. Yet she had attributed that emotion entirely to surprise. Perhaps the extraordinary manifestation of that surprise was due to her fatigued ...
— An Enemy To The King • Robert Neilson Stephens
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