| 单词 | tensity |
| 例句 | There had been a week—a week of curious tensity. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that she was close to him the whiskey made him whirl faster and the tensity of his body mounted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He laid his fingers upon Bessie’s shoulders; slowly he felt the stiffness go out of her body and as it left the tensity in his own rose and his blood grew hot. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The loud demand of the tensity of his own body was a voice that drowned out hers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The hysterical tensity of his nerves urged him to speak, to free himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z That same week, Fitzgerald wrote his editor, Maxwell Perkins, that “Ernest came like a whirlwind. … I felt he was in a state of nervous tensity, that there was something almost religious about it.” Ernest Hemingway's long-lost Los Angeles visit, 80 years ago today 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The muscles were strained to their utmost tensity. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z Her face had not regained its color, but the haunted look was gone from her eyes, the tensity from about her lips. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z No one, but Omniscience, can possibly know what degree of tensity our nature is capable of; nor precisely what degree is compatible with life, or with the most perfect health. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z He had already known how to hate, but now he knew how to hate with a greater tensity. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Naturally the tensity of the situation exercised its influence on the whole force accompanying the Little Chief band. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Standing in an attitude of strained tensity, she wondered what his next question would be. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z The tensity of her hand in his warm clasp relaxed; her eyes, into which his own passionate ones were melting, held kindling fires of gratitude and trust. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z The tensity of the situation was bewildering to her. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z A peculiar tensity of feeling came over the small circle. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z Detail is curiously to the front in moments of extreme tensity. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z She lifted her lips to him, and his arms took her and held her, and she clung to him with a tensity of affection. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z She rode back to the men, who had continued on their way, holding her horse to a mincing trot, for he seemed to have caught the tensity of her mood. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Motionless and imperturbable, Joan waited on, the tensity of her mood betrayed only by the burning of her baleful, dangerous eyes. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Even in the tensity of the moment, the incongruity of this unexpected solution struck him as so sublimely ludicrous that he laughed aloud. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z The tone was soft as a woman’s; but Sedgwick felt in it the tensity of a man ready for any extreme. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Finally, my work being finished, I sat quiet, with a tensity of quietness that showed itself in my listening attitude and tightly clasped hands. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Yet tensity marked the opening of the quarter. Betty Lee, Freshman 2010-12-20T17:12:25.800Z Spurrier’s tensity of expression relaxed into something like amusement for the anticlimax. The Law of Hemlock Mountain They were exhausted with the long tensity of their vigil, waiting for every sound that would announce his arrival, but at his entrance they stood up, vibrantly alert. Making Money On they loped over the billowy prairie, the tensity of eagerness growing with each mile covered. Ti-Ti-Pu A Boy of Red River His left hand, holding the glove just drawn from the right, did not clench in dramatic tensity. The Tempering He had never seen her so controlled, and her quiet tensity frightened him. The Guarded Heights There were three left battling for the often sweetened pot now, with three more who had dropped out, looking on, and a tensity enveloped the long-drawn climax of the evening’s session. The Law of Hemlock Mountain There were a thousand yards of it out, and when it reached the point of tensity, I gave orders to the engineers to steam closer to the object at the other end. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder To Edala, who understood what was said, the moment was one of awful tensity. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising With equal readiness he will welcome climactic movement and continue to read, or welcome any premature fall in tensity and throw the story aside. The Technique of Fiction Writing From my place on the slightly elevated witness chair I had a full view of the scene in all its ominous tensity. The Portal of Dreams Its sound carried a complete reversal of everything to which his mind had been focussed with a tensity which had keyed itself to the acceptance of a violent death, and with the reversal came reaction. The Law of Hemlock Mountain In a moment her mind lost its tensity of projection and she was almost flying down her own long stair. Ancestors A Novel The rush of color induced by physical effort—effort of a tensity that Helen was wholly unaware of—was ebbing now before a numbing terror that had come to stay. The Silent Barrier The writer must find for him words that will chime with the tensity and dramatic value of the situation. The Technique of Fiction Writing I could see the lounging crowds and recognize the tensity of conditions. The Portal of Dreams There is always that minute of uncertainty before the raiding hour when the tensity of the situation becomes almost painful. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" He was not exactly good-looking, but he had remarkable eyes and a singular tensity of manner, which made me almost breathless at times. Ancestors A Novel He paid no attention to his companion’s defense but pursued his own line of thought with an increasing tensity in his voice. The Fate of Felix Brand This it does because ascending tensity suggests further struggle. The Technique of Fiction Writing The Emperor’s pallid features were drawn with the tensity of a big loser. The Missourian Belle's only comment was, "How nice!" and she gave no sign of special interest; but a close observer might have seen a tightening of her lips, a sudden tensity of look. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country He, too, saw Dolores approaching; saw the tensity of her expression; sensed some of the tremendous hopes that actuated her, now that she saw the rapid culmination of all her plots and seductions. The Pirate Woman And yet—as now on every dock, that "strike feeling" in the air kept growing tenser, tenser—its tensity crept into me. The Harbor Even "dramatic situation" is objectionable, because it has connotations of the stage, and suggests an acuteness and tensity, a general brevity and pitch of struggle that is not essential to fiction. The Technique of Fiction Writing There was a moment’s tensity as they made that march, neither they nor the watchers knowing when a shot might sound and bring one of them to the ground. The Plunderer Her eyes were fixed on the open door at Mackenzie’s side, her face was set in the tensity of her mental concentration as she listened. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek That terrible tensity got under his skin after a while; it crept in upon him until his spine crawled a little, as if from cold. Once to Every Man As Joe said this he stared down at the sleeper, a curious tensity in his eyes. The Harbor Tharon, even in the tensity and preoccupation of the hour, drew in her breath and the pupils of her blue eyes spread. Tharon of Lost Valley Though in the darkness he could not see her face, the tensity of her tone told him her eyes were flashing. Counsel for the Defense Finally the brother-in-law went over to where Sally was still sitting with her eyes fixed on him in a dumb tensity of waiting. The Roof Tree Allowing they are diluting in health, their constant use may so attenuate the liquids as to destroy their natural force and tensity. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Long after the meeting had broken up I saw groups gather together, and presently they would begin to laugh, and their laughter would take on again that same convulsive tensity. The Harbor Then, his voice softened wonderfully, though it shook with the tensity of his feeling. Heart of the Blue Ridge The tremulous tensity in his voice set her heart to leaping with an unrestraint yet wilder. Counsel for the Defense That night spent itself through a tensity of waiting until dawn. The Roof Tree At length he stood once more before them, fully clothed, his eyes glowing like carbuncles, his visage blanched, and his whole frame quivering with pain and the tensity of excitement and suspense. The Voyage of the Aurora In the tensity of her feeling, the bitterness of her longing, her envy, she cursed him for a dull fool. Mountain Blood A Novel But as the score crept up, the tensity grew. The Wonder The flowers, the tensity that pervaded the shop, his mother's coming to the city were all because on May twentieth, fourteen years ago, he had been born. Christopher and the Clockmakers Note the tensity of expression with which the group is following his each and every word 33 Showing some of the teams of farmers attending the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference 58 An academic class. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization She was pretty now, with her softness and blossom-like fragility, but with it was a tensity, a sort of frightened desperation. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories His deep voice throbbed and pulsed with emotion, and the tensity of the times was upon him. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators "Flint and Fire" thus hovered vaguely in a shimmer of general emotional tensity, and thus abruptly crystallized itself about a chance phrase and the cadence of the voice which pronounced it. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day The answer to his first question stiffened him into an attitude of rigid tensity. The Crooked House Note the tensity of expression with which the group is following his each and every word. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Anyhow, after the previous hour or two of tensity, it was a relief to be face to face with my man, I able to read his, if I could, he able to read mine. The Black Colonel Stilwell inquired, leaning over in the tensity of his feeling, his tanned face growing pale, as if the thought of such atrocity turned his blood cold. Trail's End Again he resumed his pacing, speaking as he went, sometimes in low tones, sometimes with tensity of voice, always as if urged by some force that was driving him from silence. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story His eyes opened slowly, and he stared about him, as though in non-understanding wonderment, finally to center upon the window ahead and retain his gaze there, oblivious of the sudden tensity of the thin-faced Thayer. The White Desert Big game before him, possibly nerved to spring, and yet the tensity was not like that. Son of Power Both Williams and Overland felt an inexplicable tensity in the situation. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail The girl only leaned there with parted lips and heaving bosom and that fixed gaze which, for all its rigid tensity, seemed groping. A Pagan of the Hills There was a sort of defiance in the sudden, tensity of her erect body, an imperiousness in the carriage of her head. Wolf Breed Yet although the muscles of his jaw tightened into grimness, it was not the prospective tramp along a lonely beach in the darkness and wind that caused the stern tensity of his countenance. Flood Tide To Joe, the feeling of tensity marked this morning off from all the other mornings of his experience. Space Tug Life had suddenly assumed a tensity that silenced them. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail He walked rapidly and seemed outwardly composed, though in a state of unusual tensity, even fear. Atlantis A long silence, freighted with tensity, followed until Fairley inquired in a stunned voice: "Please explain." Destiny The face was lined as if the stress of living had drawn its muscles into habitual tensity, and except when a smile relieved the setness of the mouth his countenance was stern to severity. Flood Tide His stomach cramped itself in a hard knot, in the instinctive tensity of somebody in free fall. Space Tug In his mind she had been Sally, and in a moment of tensity he had let it shape on his lips. Sally Bishop A Romance Yes," said Billy grimly, a certain tensity in his tones that made Lydia look at him more closely, "Yes, a shame. Lydia of the Pines As her car neared the business district she could feel in the air such an electric tensity as one might expect to find at the verge of a battle-field. Destiny The excessive individualism which gives to Ibsen's best plays their tensity of interest is also the cause of their inacceptability to the multitude shrinking from any surrender of the hard won conquests of civilization. Inquiries and Opinions One had to look close to discern pallor and a peculiar roving habit of the eyes, a queer tensity of the body. Burned Bridges Followed a brief pause, charged with a curious emotional tensity. The Moon out of Reach It seemed incredible that the tensity of the silence should not snap. The Clarion We recognize this same dramatic tensity of hopeless conflict in many stories as well as plays; it is most powerful in three or four novels by George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays He sat up suddenly, his muscular tensity increasing the hurt of the scurvy. The Turtles of Tasman As if Tommy detected some tensity of feeling that he resented. Burned Bridges "Well, I'm not your wife yet," she said, trying to laugh away the queer, unexpected tensity of the moment. The Moon out of Reach More unwisely, he ignored a certain tensity of expression upon the face of his interlocutor. The Clarion The desperate imploring in the eyes of each keyed the situation to electric tensity. Diane of the Green Van She crossed the room at the luncheon summons in the nervous tensity of mood that an actress might go to play a part in which her career would live or die. The Palace of Darkened Windows For ten minutes he sat, his posture one of peculiar tensity, his eyes on the distance unseeingly—or as if he saw something vague and far-off that troubled him. Burned Bridges The tale is not evolved firmly and continuously, but with lyrical outbursts, a poignancy of sympathy at the points of highest tragic tensity and a swooning sensibility all through, that sometimes breaks into weakness. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Out of some emotional or purely social tensities of life it seems rather that Time strikes the clock than that anything so small as a clock should dare strike the Time. Little Eve Edgarton It was as though she pulled that black column up and up and up with the tensity of her desire. The Lookout Man But, paradoxically, this superficial commonplaceness only heightened the tensity of the thing that underlay it. The Real Adventure Tensity and Laxness The tensity or laxness of your muscles when you are in the presence of a prospect will suggest to him very diverse ideas. Certain Success And as he walked home with his daughter, he kept glancing at her face, which for all its look of quiet had so much tensity beneath. His Family In sheer self-defense she was obliged to move, to say something, to break the tensity of the strain. The Street Called Straight The tensity of Judith's expression did not relax. Judith of the Godless Valley The girl gazed with growing tensity; her hat-brim pressed the window. V. V.'s Eyes Both tensity and laxity of muscles can be used to good effect in selling. Certain Success Night after night, with a tensity born of her struggle with her grief, she talked about her children. His Family His nose was thin, sharp, and aquiline, and the bone seemed to exert a severe strain upon the epidermis, which was stretched over the projecting bridge with the tensity of a drum-head. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories "You must go—you must go!" she whispered with deep tensity. The Port of Missing Men Don't you see?" she said, with gathering tensity--"I--I meant it as a confidence to you. V. V.'s Eyes Tightened Thoughts Any indication of muscular tensity suggests a tightening of the mind on thoughts. Certain Success Gossip increases, instead of diminishing; and the emotions of Teodora, Don Juli�n, and himself are stirred to the point of nervous tensity. The Theory of the Theatre Here, incidentally, we get a foretaste of that preoccupation with death which heightens the tensity in so much of Synge's work. Old and New Masters During his short stay among the bushes at the foot of the cliff the whole heavens had blackened and the air was surcharged with the heavy damp and tensity that betoken a coming storm. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand He spoke with a tensity of feeling they had hardly ever noticed in him before, and not one of them had an inkling of what he was driving at. The Soul of a Child Suddenly there was a tight tensity that seemed to crowd up the little room. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 They held Saltash's with a tensity of purpose that was greater than any display of physical force. The Obstacle Race And everywhere, over all, was the tensity that ever reigns before a battle. The Half-Back The arrival of Major Reed several days after in a great measure came to relieve the tensity of our nerves and render us a degree of moral support of which we were sorely in need. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Yet again came that strange change in the tensity of Gale's ear-strain, a check, a break, a vibration—and this time the sound did not go nameless. Desert Gold For an instant, though the situation was so absolutely commonplace, so casual, Cora had a wandering consciousness of some mysterious tensity; a feeling like the premonition of a crisis very near at hand. The Flirt As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat. Sister Carrie: a Novel For another moment the cobra maintained the tensity. The Bronze Bell Suddenly there was a tight tensity seemed to crowd up the little room. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It The question seemed to have produced a tensity in the very atmosphere, Michael felt it. Lo, Michael! The tensity of certain situations numbs the sensibilities. The Black Bag He was quite at a loss to understand her emotion, almost too excited himself to notice it; but he could not help being conscious of the tensity of the moment. The Old Gray Homestead A peculiar quality, a certain tensity, in Rutton's manner, forced itself upon Amber's attention. The Bronze Bell There followed a half-hour of voices at the curb, a low voice of undeniable tensity, high laughter that shot up in joyous geysers. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It He was quite pale, but she did not notice it or the tensity of his face; his audacity made her for the moment dumb. Quaint Courtships And so the roll-call on the "Breaker" began, rather quietly, though there was no man's face in the hall that was not set to show the tensity of high-strung nerves. In the Arena Stories of Political Life The scattered party was suddenly strung to tensity; Morosine drew himself up, stiff as steel, but stood his ground. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution "What is it?" he inquired at length, unable longer to endure the tensity of the pause. The Bronze Bell Ted muses, his face gone thin with tensity. Young People's Pride A Novel I mused with a considerable amount of tensity over Cyril that night, when I had got home and Jeeves had brought me the final whisky. Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories The extreme nervous tensity is emphasized almost beyond endurance by the incessant syncopated triplets of the strings. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama Under Glyde's tuition, seeing with his eyes, watching with his tensity of vision, she had come closely into Nature's arms. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution His hands, hanging at the seams of his jeans breeches, clenched, and his voice came in a slow utterance through which throbbed the tensity of a soul-absorbing bitterness. The Call of the Cumberlands After Billy had listened a long time he took a single step to relieve his cramped toes, which were numb with the tensity of his strained position. The City of Fire The tensity of the little group increased, but no one interposed the obvious questions. The Abandoned Room His face had changed completely; from the loose and vacant mask of the early evening it had taken on the utmost tensity of emotion. Adventures in Contentment His eyes fairly rolled in excitement, his thick lips were drawn back to expose his teeth, his powerful figure was gathered with the tensity of a bow. The Mystery The tensity of her earnestness might have told a subtler psychologist than Tamarack that she was endeavoring to convince herself. The Call of the Cumberlands Stealthily as he could he moved his shoe, but it seemed to grind loudly upon the cement floor of the cellar, and he stopped frozen in tensity again to listen. The City of Fire As they left the room, Lord James faced Genevieve with a sudden tensity that compelled her attention. Out of the Primitive In the sick-room tensity had given place to intensity, as with deft, skillful directness the doctor made his examination. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Obviously he was under a tensity of endeavour in keeping his faculties set to the problem. The Mystery As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languor of sorrow after defeat. Sister Carrie Perhaps some nervous tensity of her rider made itself felt, perhaps with equine sagacity she had understood from the first the nature of this scouting expedition. Heart of the Sunset The exultant voices, the sudden hush, the tensity of nerve it all betokened, set her a-thrill. The Spoilers There was a perceptible tensity in the line of the jaw. The Unspeakable Perk I had not before aimed at a man's life, so you can see to what tensity the baffling mystery had strung me. The Mystery Larry threw back his head, and the subtle, fierce tensity seemed to leave him. The U. P. Trail Storran's eyes dwelt on her with a queer tensity of expression. The Lamp of Fate He also should not watch the dial, as any tensity on his part more or less raises the systolic pressure, the diastolic not being much affected by such nervous tension. Disturbances of the Heart And still the deadlock, the atmosphere of tensity growing more vibrant every second. Missy There followed an appalling tensity; a prodigious gathering of force; a panic stirring concentration of energy. The Metal Monster The burst of laughter that followed, all out of proportion to the humour of the remark, revealed the tensity of the strain through which they had passed. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land At length the fierce tensity of his grip relaxed, though his arms still clasped her. The Lamp of Fate However, it should be again urged in making insurance examinations that psychic disturbance or mental tensity very readily raises the systolic pressure. Disturbances of the Heart There was no cheering—the cheering days came later—no ebullient emotion, but the tightening of lip and jaw in their stern, set faces was a sufficient index of the tensity of feeling. The Major She was listening for a footfall in a state of mental tensity which almost took away from her the power of motion. A Changed Man; and other tales Love and confidence demanded in return that she should have at least the relief of certain acquiescence; there is a possible note of pain in the tensity of every string! The Man It held a note of passionate eagerness, a clipped tensity that set all her pulses racing. The Lamp of Fate The Mistress was listening with a tensity which momentarily grew more painful. Bruce From the moment it filed back into the court-room with solemn faces the dramatic tensity began to foreshadow the tragedy about to be enacted. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) Every nerve in his body seemed to be strung up to the ultimate pitch of tensity. The Yellow Claw His attitude, as he bent out into the dark night, was perfect in grace, but eloquent of a great tensity—even of agony. And Even Now His voice was harsh with the tensity of passion, and the cry that struggled from her throat for utterance was smothered by his lips on hers. The Lamp of Fate To Zuleika, with all the chords of her soul strung to the utmost tensity, the effect was as if she herself had been shot; and she clutched at the Duke's arm, like a frightened child. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story She listened, breathless in her tensity, but no further echo of that battlefield reached her. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West The first change of expression which relaxed the iron tensity of the housekeeper's face showed itself when she heard that reply. I Say No Every nerve of those who looked on was stretched to breathless tensity, when, almost as his enemy was against the barriers, Myles paused and rested. Men of Iron He spoke slowly, with an odd kind of tensity. The Lamp of Fate She was as though dominated by some inner tensity, which she dared not relax even for a moment. The Riverman Her hand, resting lightly on the door-handle, gripped it with a sudden tensity. The Lamp of Fate |
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