| 单词 | deadness |
| 例句 | I started noting the deadness in Padre Ignacio’s voice, the tedium between the gospel and communion, the dry papery feel of the host in my mouth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He shrugged again, but the deadness in his eyes told her he was lying. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He was standing at the edge of the deadness. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z So when David left with my father and mother, and then later the dog disappeared, I assumed he had gone looking for David, through the gap into the deadness. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In another fifteen minutes he was approaching the end of the valley, and the beginning of the deadness beyond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The beach shed its deadness and became a spectral gray-white, then more white than gray, and finally it was totally white and stainless, as pure as the shores of Eden. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When you do that, I see something I’ve never seen before: a kind of deadness in your eyes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If he did see the deadness, he must have begun worrying, and maybe it was then that he started feeling sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was on my father’s key chain, in his pocket somewhere out in the deadness. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As for the valley, I had wondered enough about it, especially in the first few months when I was still expecting the deadness to creep in from outside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Then we’d say it the way she did, in her dead, expressionless voice; and we’d outdo ourselves trying to say it with the right amount of deadness. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He would tell me of the horrors of the deadness, of the loneliness of silent roads and fields. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The other birds, moving about as they do, flew out into the deadness and died. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I will try to run into the brush before he can shoot, to hide in the deadness where he cannot come to search. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Peace lay on Devon like a blessing, the summer’s peace, the reprieve, New Hampshire’s response to all the cogitation and deadness of winter. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I put it and the bottle of water inside the wagon, pulled the wagon right to the border of the deadness. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the blood I hated; it was the deadness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The employees of Keith’s Classic Furniture, a secondhand furniture store, discuss the mall’s precise state of deadness. An Ode to Shopping Malls 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z In his enclosure, he’s palpably open, already poised to be converted; in his emotional deadness, he’s intensely alive. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s unfortunate that so many are introduced to the form by late-night talk shows, since there’s a deadness and polish to those sets that fails to capture the charge of the best live comedy. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z Not a Kafkaesque existential deadness, but something else, something that captured “not the endless cycle of meaningless activity but the endless cycle of meaningful activity.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z Unable to find a publisher for “Why No Revival?” — a protest against hypocrisy and spiritual deadness in churches — he borrowed $800 from the company credit union to publish it himself. Jack T. Chick, Cartoonist Whose Tracts Preached Salvation, Dies at 92 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Emphasizing the deadness of a beloved, assassinated American president is not a subtle choice. Shock ‘n’ Roll: 7 Controversial Band Names 2013-10-25T09:45:45Z The pitch was way off for most of the performance and the whole tone of your voice was shaky; there's been a real deadness about your performances lately. American Idol, Miley Cyrus Week: Our Eggheads Debate 2010-03-24T13:12:00Z I hesitate even to ascribe the deadness of “Rogue One” to Edwards’s failure, except perhaps a failure of executive authority rather than of artistry. “Rogue One” Reviewed: Is It Time to Abandon the “Star Wars” Franchise? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It was a naked-and-dead year because actual nakedness and actual deadness seemed to be in unusually abundant supply, at least in certain parts of the TV spectrum. Staring at the End, in Several Senses 2013-12-13T19:29:33Z There was a deadness to his stare that should send chills down the spine of anyone contemplating a life of artificiality. Donald Trump’s winner-takes-all wasteland: America will never be “great” if we continue to worship the hustle 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z With Camus, simple, declarative sentences can make for a certain deadness in the reader, mirroring Meursault’s, but here they create nerve-racking tension. Books of The Times: ?You Deserve Nothing? by Alexander Maksik - Book Review 2011-09-12T22:26:31Z She writes about things I think about a lot, like Southern California’s suburban deadness. Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter quotes an insider at the Austin, Texas festival who said Paul Schrader's film, based on a screenplay by the novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has "an ugliness and a deadness to it". SXSW follows Sundance in rejecting Lindsay Lohan's The Canyons 2013-01-24T12:28:27Z It was the deadness of so many weekends in American downtowns only multiplied and deepened. Perspective | In Indianapolis, America’s sportiest downtown, Selection Sunday felt really, really sad 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Then there is the erotic and emotional deadness of Selwyn’s marriage to Elli, a wealthy Swiss heiress. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Blank-faced Eve, though, delivers her lines with an almost contemptible deadness. Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins star in the ludicrous 'Misconduct' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z That is a prescription for emotional deadness, not creative growth. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The study provided "hope that restoration of hearing will become available for select forms of deadness within the next decade". Deafness could be treated by virus, say scientists - BBC News 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “Suicide, nervous breakdown, cancer, sexual deadness, heart attack, alcoholism, senility at 50. Slow death, fast death. DEATH.” Bernie Sanders’s Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in ’60s Vermont 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The impossible density of it squeezed everything alive inside of me into pulpy deadness. What’s More American Than Skydiving? 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Loneliness is like a deadness” Silver Line is now teaming up with the Care Quality Commission - the body that checks standards of care - to protect and support the most vulnerable. Many lonely elderly call helpline 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Only the trill of birds and rattle of gunfire once pierced this deadness. Returning to the ruins of Homs 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z She could feel a deadness seeping into her, a chilly indifference. Joyce Carol Oates: “Mastiff.” 2013-06-24T04:00:00Z The closeness or openness of a fabric should, then, be considered when we design patterns for its enrichment, and so should the nature of the material, as this will influence its deadness or lustre. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z But it was no use; those two frocks affrighted her courage with their deadness. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z But what of the living who are every day turning to stone by an increasing deadness to all human sympathies? A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The Christmas wreath that hung just over her head was scarcely more motionless than she was, as she stared straight before her, unconscious of anything but the deadness of her own outlook on life. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z But the deadness is all on the outside. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z At others there is a deadness and barrenness which words cannot describe. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Of all the men I ever knew, I never saw such love to God and man, such deadness to the world, such entire consecratedness to Jesus, as in him. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z A traveller unfamiliar with the country might well start, appalled by the emptiness and deadness of the place. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z In the living and yet typical forms of beasts as contrasted with the deadness of nature, they saw not only creations of the deities, but manifestations of the divine life itself. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z In the same way the deadness of the conscience argues the utmost depravity of the will. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z The soul of man has wonderful powers and capabilities, even when inert, in a state of spiritual deadness, resembling the machinery around us, until the steam force is communicated to it. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z This he affirms must proceed, not from "deadness in trade," but from "some mismanagement in the office." The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Man has taken cognizance of this deadness in his nomenclature. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z The degree of deadness to which man's heart and conscience may attain, is a depth which I cannot pretend to fathom. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z It was not, in their opinion, a symbol of doctrine, but a channel of divine influence, which no intellectual doubts could touch, which spiritual deadness alone could dispense with. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Do you interpret the saying of the elevated founder of our religion according to the deadness of the letter? John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z There must be a removal of the cause of deadness before there can be a quickening to new life. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z But human experience, which includes a realisation of the deadness of most of the de Goncourts' and Zola's productions, proves the contrary. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z We cannot—nor do we desire to—shut our eyes to the fact that deadness, coldness, and barrenness seem, as a rule, to characterize our prayer-meetings. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z But when the Lord gave the call, they considered not their own deadness, nor were daunted with discouragements, nor staggered at the promise through unbelief, but gave glory to God, outbraving all difficulties. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z Can you alone, and without exception, be so deeply sunk in slavery to Rome and the deadness of the letter, that it is no longer possible for you to arise and shake your spirits free! John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z So Christ lays His full life on our deadness, and does more than recall a departed glow of vitality. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z It has seemed as if this appeal must be irresistible; as if there could be no more deadness, or apathy, or indifference, after this. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z The Chancellor spoke of the "deadness and want of spirit" universally prevailing in the nation. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z Such blindness and deadness to the charm of beauty is to be noted in every nation, and is developed even in the extreme East whenever modern European and American usage influences the Oriental. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The life seething there presented a marvellous contrast to the deep deadness of the naked, barren mountains, above which extended the sky, cloudless and so transparent that it was monotonous and glassy. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z All the grace will trickle out and disappear unless we live in constant union with our Lord, whose Spirit passes into our deadness only so long as we are joined to Him. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z The deadness and the apathy of my heart were sickening. Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life 2011-06-21T02:00:23.800Z As if aught but overwhelming appreciation of the might of a present calamity could crush the heart into deadness. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z To rescue men’s minds from this mode of deadness was part of the work of the English poetical revival of 1800 and onwards, and Keats was the poet who has contributed most to the task. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z They deplored the corruptions and deadness of the Church. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z We are told, iv, 19, 20, that: "Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb." A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z A hand laid upon her shoulder broke the deadness of her grief. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Perhaps the constraint of her tone, the deadness of her manner—naturally so warm and cordial—would have aroused Owen's surprise, and led to an explanation. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z Some words of Johnson’s written forty years before Keats’s time may help us to realize the full depth of the deadness from which in this respect it had to be awakened:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The latter is imperfection only; the former deadness or discordance. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The "spiritual deadness," as he calls it, of the schismatic churches of the East, repelled and dismayed him. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z Hence, to the modern student, an oppressive atmosphere of deadness and sterility seems to brood over these vigorous but superannuated polemics; and hence the complete oblivion into which this literature has fallen. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Books lay about, and papers and magazines, and after the tomb-like deadness of the lower floors one got at least the impression of life. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Where used moderately, they produce either an unnatural paleness, deadness, or duskiness of complexion, or a bloated appearance, far removed from the fresh roseate hue of health. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z The woman remained bent in her cramped position, unconscious of the deadness, of sharp pricking of the limbs, disregarding the wounds in the soles of her feet, where blood trickled forth slowly. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z I spoke of the deadness of so much of the work done by William Sharp and Grant Allen. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The coldness, the dampness, the darkness were bad enuf, but this utter silence, this intense stillness, this grave-like deadness were maddening. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z That element of solitude, that deadness, as it were, that clings about the atmosphere of museums and other treasure storehouses, continued to oppress Rupert. Capricious Caroline The deadness of machine work causes us to prize the spirited and varied touch that can only be imparted by the hand. Household Organization The piers are supported by strong buttresses, and at different heights they have little arches passing through them laterally, which relieve the deadness of the solid pillar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" He had realized that when he saw her last night; he had realized all the waste, all the deadness, all the idiotic philosophy and impotence of these years without her. Sinister Street, vol. 2 He was aware only of a kind of deadness in his emotions with respect to the comet. The Year When Stardust Fell The grass was as green, the sky as blue, the rushing leaping water sparkled as before, nevertheless a sudden change and deadness fell upon the garden and its throng of guests. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance Her cocksure intensity could not fail to impress me in my present state of deadness; I listened as if to oracles. The Book of Susan A Novel Sweet, one kiss To thaw this deadness that congeals my soul. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 December with what it could bring of deadness, gloom, and moisture came drearily down on Wychford, and Pauline, as she sat high in her window-seat, lamented the interminable soak. Plashers Mead A Novel “Say what you will about the deadness of our faith, Professor!” he cried, “there is life in the old kirk yet!” Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance As the impotent man, after thirty-eight years of deadness, found life on the moment by believing Christ’s word, so every one who listens to that same voice as the word of God receives life eternal. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I Before the Norman Conquest the church had relapsed into deadness: English bishops were political partisans, the clergy were married, and discipline and asceticism, then the recognized condition of holiness, were extinct. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Once more all was a blank, all was deadness. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance This state of deadness to sin has to be constantly renewed, or again and again recovered. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition And then, they thought, "An unknown voice is calling Like April calling to the seed in earth; Madness is quickening deadness into birth." King Cole You feel a deadness in the ashes that's different from fresh ones. The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine "Just a taste, to take off the deadness of the water," said Driscoll. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day We soon learned to admire her deadness to the world, and her unaffected humility. Coelebs In Search of a Wife In vain she tries to conquer the deadness that is overpowering her, but without avail. Portia or By Passions Rocked For the cold had now a reviviscent tang—not the bleak, benumbing, icy deadness of the winter's thrall. The Story of Old Fort Loudon And she kissed Annabel effusively, though a little deadness still weighed at her heart over being supplanted, even by the girl she liked best in all the world after her own sister. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys ‘I alone Am dead to life and joy; therefore I read In all things my own deadness.’ Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Their feverish attempts to find some sunshine in life every evening, the desperate and futile migrations they make each few months, and the pathetic mental deadness of their gatherings, they try to keep private. The Crow's Nest You become worn out—your feelings exhausted—deadness and depression ensues. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings I felt to hate myself for the deadness and coldness of my heart. Ellen Middleton—A Tale These men are generally themselves answerable for much of their deadness of feeling to the higher qualities of composition. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), Indeed, in most modern Gothic, the architects evidently consider buttresses as convenient breaks of blank surface, and general apologies for deadness of wall. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) We cannot, therefore, agree with Drechsler who explains the being "covered," by "dullness and deadness in reference to spiritual things." Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 "Do you not often complain of coldness and deadness in your religious feelings? of lifelessness and want of interest?" The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Pectus facit theologum—it is the heart that makes the theologian; and a theology which does not spring from spiritual experience is doomed to decay, to deadness, and therefore to disaster. The Prayers of St. Paul Go about the world, embrue yourself with life, make use of that confusedly striving brain that I have lifted so painfully out of the deadness of matter.... The Passionate Friends Imagine the deadness of heart that must prevail in that poor wretch who never hears the sweet words of praise or of encouragement. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed I feel as if I must break through this deadness, this inertia, and find some outlet for my energies. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Not quite that either, for the old deadness had been waked into an agony of pain. Angelot A Story of the First Empire The man was like a statue, frozen to mental deadness. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 You sought by earnest effort to conquer your reluctance or deadness in prayer, but failed. The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer Mechanical excellence attained at the cost of artistic deadness is and must be the result. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 The change from the deadness of the night with its absolute stillness all takes place in a very short time. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went Skrebensky, somehow, had created a deadness round her, a sterility, as if the world were ashes. The Rainbow Gone was his horror, and gone the dull deadness of brain and body. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 It has not the chill of linen, the deadness of cotton, or the "scratchiness" of woolen. Makers of Many Things This deadness was his body's final answer to a night and a day of unbearable pain and fear. The Saracen: The Holy War "She is as well as I could have hoped," he said, hearing in his own voice the deadness he had heard in Rachel's. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel It was as if, through him, in him, she might return to her own self, which she was before she had loved Winifred, before this deadness had come upon her, this pitiless transplanting. The Rainbow Life for my deadness give; Shine, that my soul may live; Joy to my sorrow bring; Light on Thy glowing wing. Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church I contend that the socket brings about this deadness in a far greater degree than does the splice. The Complete Golfer For thirty-five years I have observed in society its impetus checked, and a kind of lethargy and deadness in practical ethics, arising from fear of this prejudicial effect upon public economy. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Church of the living God! is not this one cause of thy deadness? The Faithful Promiser The inevitable weariness of his daily work had stiffened some of his muscles, and made a slight deadness in his ruddy, alert face. The Rainbow I do not find in the whole New Testament one single passage in which either directly or indirectly exhortations are given to provide against deadness in business, bad debts, and sickness, by laying up money. The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller It is preceded by an interval of absolute deadness in matters artistic. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 The deadness of the English Church to the spiritual, and the corruption of his own countrymen. The Pools of Silence THE first joys of conversion passed away after a time, and were succeeded by a period of painful deadness of soul, with much conflict. A Retrospect But a heavy, clogged sense of deadness began to gather upon her, from the other woman's contact. The Rainbow In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator appears out of keeping. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage The agony of the night and the morning appeared to have passed away like a physical pang, leaving only this deadness of sensation and the strange, almost unearthly clearness of external objects. Virginia The drear sadness of autumn, the deadness of winter, the chill uncertainty of spring—all these were over and gone. The Mistress of Shenstone Uncle Jake came to a standstill, acutely alive in the midst of a domestic deadness. A Poor Man's House A deadness seemed coming over her brain and heart; had not Lycidas upheld the poor girl, she must have dropped by the wayside. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History My weakness and deadness are all on the left side, and if I don't look at anything I try to touch with my left hand, I don't know where it is. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 My weakness and deadness are all on the left side; and if I don't look at anything I try to touch with my left hand, I don't know where it is. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete At dessert there is the same deadness, stiffness, and restraint that marked the first course; hardly has a tinge of colour touched the ladies' cheeks or noses. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 On the other hand, I think he would not like an oil painting to have the deadness or paleness of a water color. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The former implies the Doctrine of the Return, the Upward Arc compensating the Downward Arc—The deadness of the latter results from the absence of any such compensation. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science Her eyes were not fixed and motionless, though there was a certain sort of deadness in them. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 They are afraid the evil will overwhelm or corrupt the truth; that the leaven, instead of imparting virtue, will be spoiled by the deadness of the lump. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training He found that their "deadness" proceeded from a rooted distrust of the Emperor Leopold, and from a conviction that Britain had nothing to fear from Jacobinical propaganda. William Pitt and the Great War By that time there was no longer a doubt about his deadness. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate When, however, this way is not effective, it merely produces deadness. An Interpretation of Friends Worship After a while she knocked again, but the house still lay quiet—with the peculiar deadness about it of houses seen from the outside when those within are all asleep. The Privet Hedge Nobody awaketh themselves out of their deadness and security, to lay hold on thee. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning “He was all life: there was no deadness, no coldness—he was all life.” The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance In other words, when he discovered, or believed that he discovered, that their intellectual hardness was combined with moral hardness, or rather moral deadness, he felt all the intellectual ice melted by a moral flame. A History of the United States And I must confess, too, that during some meetings I have been buried under inertia and deadness and unable to overcome them. An Interpretation of Friends Worship The most curious phenomenon in all Venetian history is the vitality of religion in private life and its deadness in public policy. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Some make it thus, as it is in the translation, “Thou hast hid thy face,” and left us in a spiritual deadness, that so there might be no impediment to bring on deserved judgment. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Peace vices, the cankers that gnaw a nation's heart, greed, self-seeking luxury, epicurean self-indulgence, hardness to growing ignorance, want, and suffering, indifference to all high purposes, spiritual coma and deadness, these do not disturb him. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Control by another has led to revolt, and revolt has led to oppression, and oppression occasions grief and deadness: hence bruises and distortion follow. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers See your deadness as a challenge and resolve not to be overcome by it but to overcome it. An Interpretation of Friends Worship But this stern doctrine of the spiritual deadness of humanity is no mere dogma of a past theology. Natural Law in the Spiritual World There is not only an universal deadness of spirit on the land, but a profane spirit,—iniquities, abominable sins, abound. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning He turned over the gilt-edged cards and the scented notes—there seemed to be a great many people in town, notwithstanding the deadness of the season—and he selected one from a certain Lady Northgate. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden There was an awful echoing in her ears And a great deadness pressing at her heart. Alcyone They are to expect great sufferings, especially if they are mighty in faith, in mortification and deadness to all but God. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon This city was in the year 1830 especially laid on my heart, when I used frequently to preach there; but then there was a great spiritual deadness. A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part A spirit of slumber and deadness from the Lord upon the land, there are multitudes he will never show his face unto, it is still vailed from them, and they know him not. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning White wreathings drifted up the fields from the sullen sea; the sky was an unbroken gray deadness shedding pin-point moisture that was now and then blown against the panes with a crepitation of despair. The Woman in Black Then he wheeled eastward and the light paled into the deadness of despair. The Tyranny of Weakness The pleasure which certain minds derive from a contemplation of the "deadness of matter" is closely associated with the voluptuousness of cruelty drawn from the recesses of the sexual instinct. The Complex Vision “That was one of our guns, I am sure of it,” exclaimed Gerald; though, from its deadness, Norah could scarcely believe that it was from one of the Ouzel Galley’s guns. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley You have both in that word darkness and deadness want of that shining light of God in the mind, so that it cannot discern spiritual things that make to our eternal peace. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning On a Sunday in May of '65, back in Gainesville, when Forrest's men had finally accepted surrender and the deadness of defeat, a Union trooper had worn those spurs into church. Rebel Spurs After doubt came certainty under which the sunken eyes of the paralyzed man smouldered fiercely and his face blanched to the deadness of parchment. The Tyranny of Weakness But then I couldn't go any farther; the deadness sank below the floor level and left me looking along a bare floor that was also bare to my sense of perception. Highways in Hiding For the rest, her hair was very black and abundant, and of that sort of deadness of hue which you find among the people of Asia. The Honour of the Flag Veronese is reported to have been far more correct and careful in drawing than was Tintoret, while Veronese's prodigality of colour was a mellowed version of Tintoret's glare or deadness. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art But what hard treatment, even what beating, could be so unendurable as this total want of sympathy, as this deadness in life, which her present lot entailed upon her? Can You Forgive Her? For some weeks Conscience followed the colorless monotony of her life with a stunned and bruised deadness about her heart. The Tyranny of Weakness Steve, take a few steps out of this deadness and take a fast dig. Highways in Hiding A sort of deadness and strange weariness seemed to brood in the air, as if the great monster were in a sinister and heavy mood, full of an almost malign lethargy. The Way of Ambition Others are of baser sort and are moved by selfish interests to fight against truth, or else block the path of progress by reason of spiritual deadness and inertia. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era When the New Testament speaks of death as a punishment, it always uses the word in a symbolic sense, meaning spiritual deadness and misery, which is a perfect retribution, because it discriminates with unerring exactness. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Great literature puts the breath of life into this deadness. Platform Monologues She looked searching into my eyes, as if straining to force her blocked telepath sense through the deadness of the area. Highways in Hiding Night and the deadness of slumber seemed falling softly, yet heavily, about it. The Way of Ambition But by reason of this very deadness, the limestone of Athenian landscape is always ready to take the colours of the air and sun. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Such is the common deadness of our consciences that the vices of our corrupt characters are far from appearing to us as the terrific things they really are. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Take an early spring day when the winter's wreck and rust and deadness seem to be everywhere. Green Valley As an item of interest, did you know that your house has lost its deadness? Highways in Hiding The deadness of rehearsal began to creep upon her, almost like moss creeping over a building. The Way of Ambition What do I care for that miserable little college on the hill, full of your good little boys with their churchly conceits and bowings and deadness? The Mayor of Warwick As the weary hours drag by, it seems as if a deadness, a sort of paralysis, creeps up the limbs, upwards towards the head. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" Do I perceive any growing deadness to the world? A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister The only thing missing was some device or doodad that would let us use our perception or telepathy in this deadness while they couldn't. Highways in Hiding She believed herself to be crushed, grossly, by the superior weight of moral deadness that he carried. The Helpmate The passes below, those ever-populous roads leading to the Nejd, Syria, Jeddah, and Arabia-Felix, were crowded with people; yet, even their presence did not suffice to remove the air of deadness from the scene. The Days of Mohammed It is important to realise, and few readers are in danger of ignoring, this extraordinary deadness of feeling, but it is also important not to confuse it with a general positive ill-will. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Sleep is merely a blessed veiling of the faculties; this was collapse, deadness. Montlivet There were always periods of deadness—she knew that—but this held a quality none of them had had. Secret Bread But I woke up to agonies of cold—a sodden deadness of the limbs which set me wondering numbly if I had any legs left—and a gnawing hunger and emptiness. Carette of Sark To charge upon Materialists the dogma of matter's deadness is a paltry trick which a writer like Mr. Smith should disdain to practice. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles And this, granted a most abnormal deadness of human feeling, is, however horrible, perfectly intelligible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth What a price she has paid for her great celebrity!—weariness, vacuity, and utter deadness of spirit. Records of a Girlhood That same element of pleasure, relief, was found also in the restful deadness of the wooded sides of the hills when he came near them. What Necessity Knows There was a deadness of atmosphere between those rocky walls that struck chill even to Adela's inconsequent soul. The Odds And Other Stories Our deadness toward all but one particular kind of joy would thus be the price we inevitably have to pay for being practical creatures. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals It will not only put an end to the languor and deadness of the past, but it will preclude the necessity of future periodic excitements. The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church She seemed struggling against her torpor, her dimness and deadness. Idolatry A Romance Hence probably the deadness and apathy which characterize this period, and which seem at first sight so astonishing. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. He detested the stupidity of wealth and poverty, he rebelled against laws that aren't laws, but only interests enforced by authority, he fought against the sheer deadness of prejudice. Read-Aloud Plays The sorrowful sense of the widespread deadness must enter into a man's spirit, and be ever present to him, in order to fit him for his work. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII I found a spirit that I did not like there, a sort of mental deadness and ineffectually. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative To the Miser alone, who from his study window had also noted the deadness of the Little Red Chimney, was the privilege of a word with the enchantress accorded. The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Like Sixtus, Alexander combined this deadness to the spirit and the interests of Christianity with zeal for dogma. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The more she considered it, the less likely it seemed to her that she could have been mistaken about the deadness of that cat. Mike Flannery On Duty and Off The hot, dusty quadrangle stretched in dreary deadness toward the temple of the town, as if doing obeisance to the court-house. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Felt much deadness, and much grief that I cannot grieve for this deadness. The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne The deadness that broke her heart would give way under Jesus' touch. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel If we can suppose that our camera is capable of distinguishing centres of industrial activity, then our picture will give us 'vital' patches, which stand out against a background of deadness. Recent Developments in European Thought But Dr. Orchard, we must not fail to see, is quite genuinely exasperated by the deadness of religious life, and is straining every nerve to quicken the soul of Christ's sleeping Church. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality But his words made no impression upon her, perhaps because they could not penetrate the outer husk of deadness which enveloped her. The Wheel of Life At Cambridge, he thundered at the deadness of Harvard and its faculty, and electrified the land by striking at its glory. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Only that curious deadness of sensation of which he had been aware all day—the inability to feel any more that comes from too much suffering—enabled him to keep his ground before her. The Street Called Straight He is in very great straits, owing above �500 to his Majesty's Printers for books, "much hindered by the deadness of trading," and by the return of many books on his hands. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 He felt creeping over him that deadness to external things which makes pain itself seem comparatively almost sweet. A Noble Life In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator appears out of keeping. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 There is this deadness about any conception of perfection that will always make it an unattainable 133 ideal in life. The Practice and Science of Drawing As he turned into his own grounds that day it seemed to him that his deadness of emotion was such that he could carry the thing through mechanically, as a skilled surgeon uses a knife. The Street Called Straight A strange deadness seemed to prevail in the room. The Dweller on the Threshold The motion was due—must be due—to the absolute deadness of the calm in that silent, sinister, three-miles-broad waterway. Widdershins Fresh from newspaper instruction of the deadness of the deadlock, the poignancy of the crisis, or the stupendity of the achievement, one rather expected one's own personal world to stand still and watch it. If Winter Comes And in art it is the same; all those who have aimed at an absolute perfection have usually ended in a deadness. The Practice and Science of Drawing But the whole concoction is tainted with the deadness of stark materialism, and we should be unjust, after all, to deny Bulwer something loftier and broader than is discoverable here. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 There were plenty of imperfect Christians amongst them; many things to rebuke; much deadness, coldness, inconsistency, and yet none of these in the slightest degree interfered with the application of these great designations to them. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) His unseemly conduct was the fault of the dullness, deadness, and irreverence of the age in which he lived, rather than of his own personal defects. The Parish Clerk For one thing is certain, that this apathy and deadness will never of itself generate sensibility and life. Sermons to the Natural Man But even here a monotonous sharpness is too dead a thing, and although a firmness of run will be allowed to be felt, subtle variations will be introduced to prevent deadness. The Practice and Science of Drawing By dullness of eye and deadness of heart to natural beauty, we keep away from sympathy with God, who is the fountain of loveliness as well as the fountain of love. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The violent ferment which had been stirred in the nation by the affairs of Wilkes and the Middlesex election, was followed, as Burke said, by as remarkable a deadness and vapidity. Burke There is a deadness, or sort of stupor, over everything. Quiet Talks with World Winners Or, as I sometimes think, would it not be a new and worse chagrin to become acquainted with the extreme deadness of our community to spiritual influences of the higher kind? Ralph Waldo Emerson I found myself without any object to live for, and a strange deadness of feeling came over me, harder to bear than illness or death. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters I was beginning to realise the absolute deadness of this woman. Friday, the Thirteenth We see hence, that Christ is the Life, that is, one that sufficiently, yea, and abundantly can help the believer while under those fits of deadness which have been mentioned, and the like. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life Here the deadness of the region seemed further enlivened by several small birds, speckled and gray, two ravens, and a hawk. Tales of lonely trails Their phlegmatic, apathetic temperament; coldness of desire and deadness of feeling; want of curiosity and slowness of intellect, make the Amazonian Indians very uninteresting companions anywhere. Primitive Love and Love-Stories I was interested in this deadness of my emotional nature—no doubt a concomitant of my stagnating physiology; and my thoughts wandered off along the line it suggested. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories What you call piety may be only deadness. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little We hence learn, that under all these fits of deadness to which his people are subject, nothing without Christ will help: Not, 1. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life So the text saith, "he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb, but was strong in faith." The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South But the roots of the evil, the ultimate cause of that typical young man's deadness, lie not at all in that direction. An Englishman Looks at the World And there is a fair measure of the deadness of the town! The Grafters But when it is frozen through and through with pride, it coldly resists the overtures of mercy, and in its deadness is apathetic even, to the storm of wrath. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little There is in him a rich supply of things that tend to revive, encourage, strengthen and enliven a soul under spiritual deadness and fainting. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life Much do I stand in need of every help to awaken me out of that spiritual deadness which seizes me so often. The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 Her arms and limbs had a curious sort of deadness about them, a detached sensation, as if they belonged to some one else. The Apartment Next Door I do not ask you to defend the deadness of that thing lying there. The Ghost Ship There is still the same freedom from pain, the same deadness to all sensation where the suffering was most acute. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Cry to him, that he would make them sensible of their deadness, and waken them out of their deep sleep. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life In a curious subconscious fashion, she was striving to hold on to this deadness of sensation, thus to win a little respite from the torture that had exhausted her soul. Within the Law When she had spoken to the Secretary of that 'deadness that steals over me at times', her fortitude had made too little of it. Our Mutual Friend The result is an inevitable deadness of topics to which attention is invited, but which are so isolated that they do not feed imagination. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Then I realized that its colour was subtly different—tinged with grey and of a smooth, peculiar—deadness. The Moon Pool It is here clearly presupposed, that even believers have need of Christ to be life unto them; and so have their fits of deadness. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life When I lived to the flesh in the bondage of sin, I was dead in the inner man; and those years of deadness I can never call years of life. Barlaam and Ioasaph Trudging round the country and tiring of myself out, I shall keep the deadness off, and get my own bread by my own labour. Our Mutual Friend It will be almost impossible for you to realize such a condition of negativity and deadness. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature What did that smooth stone, whose wan deadness whispered of ages-old corridors of time opening out into alien, unimaginable vistas, hide? The Moon Pool Yea, how unwilling are they to hear any thing that may tend to awaken them, or to discover unto them the deadness of their condition? Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life The dulness and deadness of country life, especially in the Colonies, leads many men to prefer a life of hardship and privation in a City slum. In Darkest England and the Way Out There's a deadness steals over me at times, that the kind of life favours and I don't like. Our Mutual Friend The deadness with which custom invests the familiar vanishes, and existence as a whole appears transfigured. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature Think of the sensuality of many rich, the brutality of many poor, the shallowness of many fashionable, the coldness and deadness of religion, the absence anywhere of any deep, true spiritual impulse. The Vital Message What can that soul do that is not sensible of this deadness and weakness? Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life But now I have found you, and if there's such a thing as gratitude, I ask you to put in your word with Zaemon that this deadness be taken away from my hand. The Lost Continent Slowly he moves, and at his altar stands With eyes dejected, and with trembling hands; And, while he mutters undistinguish'd pray'rs, A livid deadness in his cheeks appears. The Aeneid English Palmer caught her hand; there was a vague deadness in her eye that terrified him; he had not thought the girl suffered so deeply. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 He muttered something: but the sounds were as unintelligible as the features of his face; or the drooping deadness of his eyes. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor But further, it may be asked, what can the soul do, when, after all this, it findeth no help or supply, but deadness remaining, yea, and it may be, growing? Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life Chrystie began to feel as if she was coming to life after a long period of deadness. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California It seemed to me impossible: I could not realize such deadness. Villette Never, never let us accept as consolation the poor suggestion, that the cause of our deadness is physical. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. We have nothing to dread but the deadness and indifference of the public mind. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra The sixth case, that we shall speak a little to, is a deadness, occasioned by the Lord's hiding of himself, who is their life, and "the fountain of life," Ps. xxxvi. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life Many mantras and much holy-water, together with incense of sandal-wood, and other perfumery, regardless of expense, can alone relieve his premises of the deadness of his wife. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 The deadness and emptiness of the upper Aletsch glacier, like some vast white street, called up the image of an icy Pompeii. Amiel's Journal The enemies of all true life, out-of-date Liberals who are afraid of their own independence, the flunkeys of thought, the enemies of individuality and freedom, the decrepit advocates of deadness and rottenness! The Possessed (The Devils) And how does that Lord look at me and all my wanderings from Him, my hardness of heart, my Pharisaism and deadness to His spiritual power and beauty? Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark But is there not even some of those who are most tender, that complain of their deadness and shortcomings? Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life It is either—take Christ for your Life, or remain in your deadness, separate from God. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Israel was so sunk in spiritual deadness that the issue of the prophet's work would only be to immerse the mass of 'this people' farther in it. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Marie," he cried, as he held the child in his arms, "all the old madness, shame, and deadness is over, isn't it? The Possessed (The Devils) No deadness of conventionality dulls the edge of his art—he is an original man. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century There is a fourth case of deadness to be spoken to, and that is, Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life Nor was this deadness confined to the colonies alone, for the Wesleys were soon to stir the sluggish current of English religious life. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Then, if I may so say, Elisha's miracle will be repeated in nobler form, and from Himself, the Life thus touching all our being, life will flow into our deadness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah I tried to start up and shake off this strange deadness from my body, but was powerless to move a muscle. A Crystal Age Mr. Pound has spoken out his mind from time to time on the subject of scholarship in American universities, its deadness, its isolation from genuine appreciation, and the active creative life of literature. Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry Why should Christian people have these dismal times of deadness, these parentheses of paralysis? as if their growth must be like that of a tree with its alternations of winter sleep and summer waking? Expositions of Holy Scripture The people's thoughts were with the Court more than with the clergy, who had fallen from a healthy enthusiasm in their profession into a sort of spiritual deadness and dull acceptance of circumstances. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut In recollection that club was like an abode of black magic to him; it seemed so hideously alive in its deadness, and its doings were so absurd and mysterious. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days This last line has been greatly admired for the corresponding deadness of its expression. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 And surely, in that moment, even as I harked, I was gone over into a deadness, and had no more knowing; neither to have even a knowledge that I did be slipt from my senses. The Night Land So, if we may say it, our Quickener bends Himself over all our deadness, and by His own warmth reanimates us. Expositions of Holy Scripture Let us then commence by enquiring what we really mean by the livingness which we attribute to spirit and the deadness which we attribute to matter. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science We are pretty well save colds and rheumatics, and a certain deadness to every thing, which I think I may date from poor John's Loss…. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia We often meet with those who complain of dryness and deadness in their worship. How to Live a Holy Life But at a "General Court," held on the 23rd December, 1720, it was resolved to "vacate" the subscription "by reason of the present scarcity of moneys, and the deadness of credit." Canada and the States I confess that with the living fires of Kilauea in my memory, I was at first disappointed with the deadness of a volcano of whose activity there are no traditions extant. The Hawaiian Archipelago But though these things are known in the free States, and other things, if possible, worse, yet there is a terrible deadness of moral sense. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe For, by it, we experience a continual deadness to sin, and a continual holiness of heart and life. The Theology of Holiness Press your way through to God in spite of dryness and deadness. How to Live a Holy Life The fatal tendency to deadness, born of routine and repetition, overtakes the worker long before his force is spent, and blights his work by sapping its vitality. Essays on Work and Culture But there is another offence, that of quenching the Spirit, which accounts for the comparative darkness and deadness of many of God’s children. When the Holy Ghost is Come His voice harshened and broke with a despair that was all the more terrible for the deadness of his tone. Out of the Primitive There was no death, or deadness, or flatness in it; or, as he saith a little after, 'and there shall be no more curse.' Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 It was a ghastly thing to the boy as he came to realize it—this utter deadness and coldness of "the world". Love's Pilgrimage But energy without hope is impossible, and therefore was there such an apathy and deadness through the country. Castle Richmond To say that man introduces inertness into nature implies a deadness in him: it is to say that he wants life. The Recreations of a Country Parson "But sourness comes without it, or at least deadness," returned his sister. The Long Vacation No disease comes amiss to it; it cures blindness, deadness, deafness, dumbness. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Where would any special deadness, or crassness, come in? Pragmatism Then Shefford began to see, to hear through some cold and terrible deadness that had come between him and everything. The Rainbow Trail But what is affirmed is, that a sensational existence such as ours is not the life of MAN; that a consciousness of physical life does itself imply a deadness. The Recreations of a Country Parson A numbness and a deadness ran through her limbs as he compelled her nearer to him. The Lilac Sunbonnet Yet he conceded that the awesome deadness of the forest passage had put strange thoughts into his own heart. The Flaming Forest Now it seemed that he held a live creature under his hands, as if the deadness and the dread apathy had gone away forever with the utterance of that one syllable. The U. P. Trail The servant that is anxious for his employer's interest is sure to get into a passion or two with the deadness, indifference and heartless injustice of the genuine hireling. Love Me Little, Love Me Long As rest to moving things is not truly rest, but motion; so life to inert things is not truly life, but deadness. The Recreations of a Country Parson Now it's out, all that deadness is gone. The Border Legion During the early part of my stay I had been struck by the contrast between the vitality of the climate and the deadness of the community. Ethan Frome Julian Casti, on the other hand, had passed into a state of miserable deadness; Waymark in vain tried to excite hope in him. The Unclassed She craved with stinging curiosity to hear something of their affairs every day; partly because the torture which such intelligence gave was almost a relief from the deadness of her heart to all other interests. Ruth And I can discover nothing more than a daring assertion, in the statement that we are dead, and that we project our own deadness upon living nature. The Recreations of a Country Parson Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; or so it seemed. Wives and Daughters The contrast of its eternal deadness with the active life around us is great indeed. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science Those cruel amusements were, certainly, the sin of blindness, of deadness and stupidity, in the age of Marius; and his light had not failed him regarding it. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 The excitement of the Jacobi episode had roused him for a while, but now natural reaction had set in, and the deadness and dulness of his daily routine oppressed him intolerably. Herb of Grace And to be delivered from all this deadness and delusion, what we have to do is to betake ourselves to the Saviour. The Recreations of a Country Parson I suppose in scarcely any other part of the world is this appearance of deadness so strikingly exhibited. Letters from High Latitudes Then the words came, falling like icicles in the deadness of the hush. The Firefly of France Without this force 399:21 the body is devoid of action, and this deadness shows that so-called mortal life is mortal mind, not matter. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures In the dark, pitchy deadness of night, when there was no wind and the cold on the peaks had frozen the waterfall, then the silence seemed insupportable. The Man of the Forest Still she never beheld Hetty on her knees, that a feeling of tender recollection, as well as of profound regret at the deadness of her own heart, did not come over her. The Deerslayer Rather there was the deadness of eternity, as if this swoon would last forever, neither developing into life, nor deepening into death. A Spirit in Prison In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details. Essays — Second Series Where Willarski saw deadness Pierre saw an extraordinary strength and vitality—the strength which in that vast space amid the snows maintained the life of this original, peculiar, and unique people. War and Peace White wreathings drifted up the fields from the sullen sea; the sky was an unbroken grey deadness shedding pin-point moisture that was now and then blown against the panes with a crepitation of despair. Trent's Last Case Then it was that my deadness made itself felt, in the mechanical address I put up, the emptiness of my language, the absence of all real unction. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments We might as well be and buried, too, here in Poketown—for it is right next door to a cemetery for deadness, I do believe. Janice Day the Young Homemaker Their phlegmatic, apathetic temperament, coldness of desire and deadness of feeling, want of curiosity and slowness of intellect, make the Amazonian Indians very uninteresting companions anywhere. The Naturalist on the River Amazons "There was," as Somers expressed it in a remarkable letter to William, "a deadness and want of spirit in the nation universally." Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 In all the draperies, the figures, and the faces, in the lovers and the tyrants, the Bacchanals and the Furies, there is the same marble chillness and deadness. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 The deadness inherent in these defunct languages themselves had never been artificially counteracted by a system of bona fide rewards for application. The Way of All Flesh If Ellen suffered a terrible shock it was a blankness, a deadness, and a slow, creeping failure of sense in her knees. To the Last Man A sense of deadness commenced in my hands and worked up my arms. The Confession An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity. The Call of the Canyon That was relief for a cold deadness which seemed to be creeping inward along his veins. Riders of the Purple Sage She wondered dully at her sitting there, hands folded listlessly, with a kind of numb deadness to the passing of time and the passing of her riches. Riders of the Purple Sage This paroxysm slowly wore away, and Jean grew conscious of a dull amaze at the apparent deadness of his spirit. To the Last Man |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。