| 单词 | fixedness |
| 例句 | There was something in his gaze—a miles-away fixedness—that made me think for a minute that he had stopped altogether, but he went on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Movement and fixedness contend expressively in Theater Alliance’s “Blood at the Root,” Dominique Morisseau’s play about a school shaken by violence, hate speech and racial tensions. Review | Two plays set at the intersection of race and violence in America 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z People struggle to solve it because they get hung up on the “functional fixedness” of the box as a container for tacks, not as a theoretical shelf for the candle. The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Stability counts for something and fixedness is what statues do best. My obsessive quest to solve the mystery of a missing Virgin Mary 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z That speaks to a cognitive bias called functional fixedness. We're Fumbling the Return to Physical Offices 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z It has a fixedness that is, perhaps happily, beyond a parent’s control. Things that matter, in the words of Charles Krauthammer Most likely, though, moral queasiness lies along a continuum of fixedness, and some people who profess repugnance may well be swayed by information. Organ Markets, Sacred Values, and the Power of Information 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It was because solving the puzzle involved a tricky cognitive manoeuvre, that of overcoming “functional fixedness.” A Little Story About Incentives, With Troubling Implications 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He was looking at her with a brazen sort of fixedness that would have made almost any mature woman blush. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z His gloomy isolation for a whole winter, with only a few devoted followers, reveals a fixedness of purpose and grandeur of character that no circumstances can affect. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z Moralists have always questioned the wisdom of indulging a taste for fictitious literature, even when time has strengthened habit and principle into fixedness. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z In this fixedness, this constancy, this eternal integrity, the intelligent man has absolute confidence. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Cambridge and Boston society still rejoices in that imposing fixedness of outline which is ever so inspiring to contemplate. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z I gazed with instant celerity and fixedness at the ceiling, then at the upper boxes opposite, since below, indiscretion was laid like a trail of powder, of explosive rice powder. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z We do not believe that he himself was fully aware of this inherent power, this fixedness of purpose that makes him different from all other men. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z I saw them looking up with stealthy, longing, deadly fixedness for the coming of their prey. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z They stared with a reptilian fixedness, seeing nothing. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z He saw the captain stare with peculiar fixedness at one paragraph, never taking his eyes off it for at least five minutes. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Anulka listened with her palms on her temples, and with eyes looking out before her in fixedness, so Pan Gideon stopped and looked at her once, and a second time. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z If under constraint of the evidence for the theory, we surrender the doctrine of inevitable fixedness of species, how shall we nevertheless account for the permanence of species? The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z They are to be grounded, or more picturesquely and accurately, “founded,” that is, built into a foundation, and therefore “stedfast,” as banded into the firm rock, and so partaking of its fixedness. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Next in order lay Zend, with grinning teeth and eyes protruding, in which in glassy fixedness was terror before death. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Both eugenics and modern school reform view education too deterministically, share a faith in standardized tests, and exaggerate the fixedness of traits. Deselection of the Bottom 8%: Lessons from Eugenics for Modern School Reform 2011-07-19T11:15:00.257Z And this very fixedness of society enables its members to push forward with a unity and strength almost omnipotent. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z The possibility of adaptive changes being granted, the absolute fixedness of species in the rigid sense formerly acknowledged is abandoned. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z This examination of the languages whose conjugations approach a fixed form, shows clearly that this fixedness is seriously shaken precisely where it is most important, through this insertion of the governed words. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Her face flushes and pales, her hands tremble, and her eyes follow the movements of the detective with strange fixedness. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z No sin is so dwelt on in the Bible with a stern, reiterated fixedness of divine abhorrence as the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Her head ached with the formal curves of the drives, with the unchanging fixedness of the statues, just as the unnatural murky tones of the landscapes in frames gave her vague discomfort. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z There is fixedness of physical law, but withal there is diversity of weather, and seasons, and harvests, and that because a variety of conditions are harmonized under fixed law. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z It is this very generality and fixedness, which render it, in almost all cases, inapplicable; this is the inherent defect in the supposed importance of Camper’s facial angle. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z She plans her elopement with the same fixedness of purpose as the father pursues his revenge. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Misal, like the students he taught, was in revolt against the old fixedness. The Caste Buster 2011-01-03T07:42:06Z Nothing distinguished the pupils from those of health but their lifeless sorrowful fixedness. Four Phases of Love There is fixedness of intellectual law in accordance with which accuracy of thought is determined, but diversity of result according to the materials with which we deal. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z The man was bowing, murmuring polite conventionalities; only somehow the man's eyes, instead of meeting his, seemed to be set with peculiar fixedness upon some object. The Belovéd Traitor And again he threw himself from the chair, holding his clenched fists in a menacing attitude towards the ceiling, as though calling upon Heaven to witness the fixedness of his resolve. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Cyrus Spradling studied him with a keen, but not unkindly, fixedness of gaze. The Tempering The agitated doctor drew her towards the window, and proceeded to examine her eyes; the pupils were not to be distinguished from seeing ones, save by their lifeless melancholy fixedness. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales His belief in the harmony of the universe rests on his belief in the fixedness of law physical as well as moral, and moral as well as physical. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z He had no strength of will, no fixedness of purpose, no depth of conviction. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs She smiled, but she felt that her smile was rather hollow and even that Mrs. Gereth had begun to look at her with some fixedness. The Spoils of Poynton The fixedness with which she eyed the child, though the blood was streaming from her forehead and bathing with a still deeper red her burned and blistered arms, made Mr. Sylvester's sympathetic heart beat. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life She blushed at the fixedness of my gaze, for I utterly forgot myself in my admiration, and stared as though at a picture. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The fixedness of law, physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual, in no case involves fixedness of result, but varying results according to diversity of conditions. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z But they who were on or near the scaffold saw something horrid in the fixedness of his countenance. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Then looking with an intention of fixedness from one of her companions to the other, "I'm afraid I've interrupted your conversation," Mrs. Brigstock said. The Spoils of Poynton These conversations laid deep the foundation of that undeviating integrity, fixedness of purpose, unwavering conscientiousness and unaffected reverence for the Divine Being, which ever characterized this Medical Reformer in after life. Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgement of Common Sense! Had our Lord come later, He would have come to mankind already beginning to stiffen into the fixedness of maturity.... Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford But the fixedness belonging to various orders of law, subsisting in a state of interdependence, and involving subordination of lower to higher, needs some more exact interpretation. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z Guy did not at all believe that I was in earnest, and half an hour’s impetuous talking was needed to convince him of the reality and fixedness of my resolve. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 Nora walked rapidly; within ten minutes, from the fixedness of her direction, Bat guessed her destination. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist When her going home was mentioned, however, she flushed and tears ran down her cheek, though no change in the fixedness of her attitude or in her facial expression was seen. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type The loungers, who by this time had changed to a sitting posture, and who were staring at him with an unwinking fixedness which made him rather nervous, did not seem very congenial companions. The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West Among these results is rejection of fixedness of species as implying impossibility of deviation from a single normal type of structure. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z He turned instantly to her, but it seemed to her as though there were a slight haze in his eyes––a fixedness––which cleared, however, as he spoke. The Crimson Tide A Novel Happiness was the child of fixedness—in opinions, in space. Dreamers of the Ghetto Save for the stain on his breast and the fixedness of his eyes, he might have been sleeping. The Strollers Clearly, the framers of the Constitution intended that the supreme law of the land, when once agreed to, should have within it a principle of fixedness almost invincible. Patrick Henry "None, but to see your back," the man repeated, while his companions looked down at the Colonel with a strange fixedness. The Wild Geese "Ah! but Nemesis is looking the other way with great fixedness, it seems to me," said Lady Nottingham. Daisy's Aunt Aspiration has less of decision than the other terms; one may aspire to an object, and yet lack the fixedness of purpose by which alone it can be attained. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions She tried to be steady too—tried to have that fixedness of heart which says confidently, "I will sing and give praise." Say and Seal, Volume II She sat in the absolutest quiet, of face and figure both; looking into the fire that played in the chimney, with a fixedness that perhaps told—in the beginning—of some doubtfulness of self command. Say and Seal, Volume I But it is all expressed in a tense that denotes definiteness, fixedness and finished action. Days of Heaven Upon Earth But in the make-up of the man one essential of true greatness—fixedness of purpose—had been omitted. Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky A Sketch In it we have a picture of matter in a crude condition, without fixedness of form, surrounded with darkness. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 The remoteness and fixedness of the stars had suggested a quiet, unalterable, passionless force beyond Setebos, who must, therefore, have limitations. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning She has shown more fixedness of purpose, sagacity, and sound judgment, than have ever been attributed to her. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Her face, too, had lost the delicate, yielding lines of the woman wooed and won, rejoicing in submission; it was again alert, set to fixedness of plan that would brook no denial. Making People Happy Paracelsus now adds to the two principles a third, salt, as the element of fixedness or palpability, as he terms it. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness, without a place; There were no stars—no earth—no time— No check—no change—no good—no crime. The World I Live In This state is usually accompanied by an unmeaning stare or fixedness of countenance quite peculiar to the drunkard. Select Temperance Tracts He spoke with a firm accent, trying to fascinate her with the impassioned fixedness of her eyes, drawing near her, as if to caress her with the music of his words. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The truth is, it has no grace in itself; what, then, must it be when put into the fixedness of bronze or marble? A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture And corresponding to its importance should be the fixedness of heart called to its performance. The Ordinance of Covenanting Ellen, whose eyes were abundantly occupied, suddenly assumed a look of greater fixedness and intensity. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The intensity of his desire, and the fixedness of his purpose were so sharply manifest that the man in the wagon did not, for the moment, reply. The Flag We think otherwise: they are well grouped; by their various attitudes they give the greater desperate fixedness to Ugolino, and they do tell the story well, and are good in themselves. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Sir, to bind these disjointed provinces together by iron roads; to give them the homogeneous character, fixedness of purpose, and elevation of sentiment, which they so much require, is our first duty. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe A Negro porter passing through a coach set apart for white passengers noted the fixedness with which a young woman with a pretty face and a pair of beautiful blue eyes was regarding him. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist His eye was fearless and steady, but it was also artful and audacious, glaring upon the beholder with an unpleasant fixedness and brilliancy, like that of a ravenous animal gloating on its prey. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Meditation, much meditation on God, a stayedness and fixedness of spirit upon him, lays up a treasure in the heart. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Fuseli's picture of 'Count Ugolino in Prison,' in which the stony fixedness of despair deprives us, as we gaze, almost of the living hope within us, we could not bear to have near us habitually. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 He made no answer, but looked at her with strange fixedness. Romola Motionless as an iron statue, and assuming more and more the fixedness of one, he stood, while minute after minute slipped by. The Gold of Chickaree There was indeed no anger either in his looks or tones, but there was a stern fixedness of purpose in his manner and aspect which aroused, yet repelled, the curiosity of those around him. Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader But, under the softness and gentleness of her external demeanor, one soon detects a firmness of determination, and a fixedness of will. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience The lady looked at me with a good deal of fixedness, long enough for my glance to receive a vivid impression of herself. Four Meetings The fixedness of their looks directed the eyes of Tom Brown and his comrades towards a neighbouring thicket, where they beheld an object that was well calculated to inspire dread. Hunting the Lions And I know that only _un_fixedness of heart can make any discord. The Gold of Chickaree While he was thus engaged, Captain Wopper regarded the Mer de Glace with a gaze of fixedness so intense as to draw on him the attention and arouse the curiosity of his friends. Rivers of Ice But after the strange British fashion there was intertwined with this singular fixedness of ideas a stubborn independence in thinking, courageously exercised in times of peril. Benjamin Franklin Cora's pale face and piteous eyes moved him more deeply than her sobbing the night before, but there was a certain inexorable fixedness in his resolution, and he did not falter. The Eagle's Heart Our fixedness and stability are not natural immobility, but communicated steadfastness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. They were little favorable to the strength of mind, the fixedness of purpose, the self-denial and Christian devotion that marked this noble deaconess. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America The porch with its broad steps was empty, but Darvid's carriage was there yet, showing a spot of gleaming sapphire in the sunny air, the horses stood in trained fixedness, like statues cast from bronze. The Argonauts But his careful statement and measured profession indicate rather than belie the earnestness of his feeling, the strength of his conviction, and the fixedness of his resolution.=219= Benjamin Franklin The chief assurance for any considerable well-doing in the world is to be found in good purposes and in fixedness of purpose when a purpose has been formed. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 There was so much politeness in the Captain's manner, and yet evident fixedness of purpose, that Albert attempted no answer. Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Radical stress denotes, as it were, an involuntary state of energy; final stress, the energy or fixedness of resolve. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Equilibrium of things produced by the counterbalancing of fixedness and movement, 778-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry All the evidence we have in favor of the fixedness of species is, of course, evidence not only against Darwinism, but against evolution in all its forms. What is Darwinism? There was a fixedness and a tenacity about this woman's regard for her youngest child that was, in a certain sense, very touching. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The fixedness of purpose that is required, and is essential in school, remains as though it were a part of the nature of the child and the man. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions Acknowledging this touching self-denial by the fixedness of his attention, the king showed La Valliere how much he appreciated its delicacy. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" These are fixedness and movement, analogous, in philosophy, to Truth and Fiction, and, in Absolute Conception, to Necessity and Liberty, which are the very essence of Deity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry An intensity and fixedness of features were conspicuous, that led me to suspect the subversion of his reason. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 It was said of old that the Southerner was wanting in that energy and fixedness of purpose which make a successful American. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z They have had only worldly and political motives, for wishing to see the old imposition done away; and these have been powerless against natural apathy, and the fixedness of old establishment. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society The philosophy, natural pride, imagination, and fixedness of her soul were all wounded during this sojourn. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Life perpetually caused by the double law of fixedness and movement, 843-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry That wore a fixedness of amiability which accentuated the whole like a high light. The Portion of Labor She remembered it as she looked at him and saw a certain fixedness in his face. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 The old man turned and looked at him with a kind of doubtful fixedness. None Other Gods Maria stole a look at herself in a glass which hung over the kitchen-table, and she hardly knew her own face, it had gathered such a strange fixedness of secret purpose. By the Light of the Soul A Novel In differing handwriting there is always an attempt or desire to represent an alphabet which is essentially determinate, but no such fixedness or limited condition of form restricts gesture speech. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 When he laughed he gave the impression of the fixedness of merriment of a mask. The Portion of Labor He was a small man, with a thin face in a pale film of white locks and beard, but his black eyes gleamed out of it with sharp fixedness. Pembroke A Novel When these two talked without apparent heat it was with unalterable fixedness of purpose. The Princess Elopes She stared at Miss Rosa Blair, who returned her stare with curious fixedness. By the Light of the Soul A Novel I confess," said Atmâ, "that the fixedness of fate engages my thought frequently, though hitherto unprofitably. Atmâ A Romance Our relations with the Orient daily increase, and the fixedness of our position in the Far East hourly becomes more definite. The Young Man and the World Anxiety trouble, or fixedness of purpose were written upon almost every countenance. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business Science, when not practically applied, loses its value; it wants fixedness, stability. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 425 Volume 17, New Series, February 21, 1852 "A self-reliant spirit, if it be not poised on another foundation than its own, hath no fixedness that is worth anything, Miss Elizabeth; — and friends are not safe things to trust to." Hills of the Shatemuc The heat, light, and atmospheres of the natural world simply open the seeds, keep their products in a state of expansion, and clothe them with the matters that give them fixedness. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom It involves great outlay of capital and labor, and creates great fixedness of tenure. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 Rivers broke the spring, and his eyes gazed with serpent-like fixedness upon the exquisitely beautiful features which it developed. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia Her dry fixedness gave way with a gasp, and she broke into hysteric tears, rocking herself backwards and forwards, crooning over the insensible body, or stooping to kiss it. Idolatry A Romance Night and day, he toiled, and it surprised every one to see so much energy and fixedness of purpose in a negro. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy If he intends to succeed, he must have some established principles and a fixedness of purpose, which will prompt to accuracy and method, would be the universal decision of the wise. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character There was indeed no anger, either in his looks or tones; but there was a stern fixedness of purpose in his manner and aspect which aroused, yet repelled, the curiosity of those around him. Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific The contrast between it and Islam is that of movement with fixedness, of participation with sterility, of development with barrenness, of life with petrifaction. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology You stand gazing at your relative with almost as much fixedness as he returns your stare withal. Idolatry A Romance The horse was gazing with statuesque fixedness across a waste of partially-melted snow. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Fluctuating opinions and feelings produce fickleness of conduct; while settled convictions, stability of affections, and fixedness of purpose, give birth to persevering and methodical action. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character What had been her guiding impulse, that silent, submissive woman, whose handsome black eyes at times manifested a startling fixedness of purpose in the midst of her never-ending slavery? The Downfall The transparency of his purpose, the simplicity of his personal aim, his unflinching courage, fixedness of belief, lofty plans, and far-reaching ambitions for his people, impressed all who came into contact with him. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic In his vacant gaze there was something changed—a fixedness born of a slow and hopeless enlightenment. The Common Law The solemnity of the last words, the fixedness of the tragic look, were not to be resisted. Marcella The question of their settlement in that community was debated but resulted in great diversity of opinion rather than a fixedness of judgment among the citizens. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 We do not sufficiently mark the masculine features in that character, the tremendous tenacity of will, the inflexible fixedness of purpose, the irremovable constancy of obedience in the face of all temptations to the contrary. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) A mission Sunday School was listening to a talk on the fixedness of habits formed in youth, and to make it clearer the speaker said, "Boys, do they ever lay cement walks in this neighborhood?" The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training Yet he has a fixedness of character, reaching in some directions to absolute crystallization; he possesses the virility of young manhood and many of the mutually inconsistent traits of late manhood and early youth. Across China on Foot The illusion is all on the understandings of the spectators; and they seem to feel the power without the fact of animation, or to have a sense of mobility in a vision of fixedness. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England The fixedness of feature and the oppressed and heavy breathing only made it too plain that the end was near. The Personal Life of David Livingstone It upsets the certainty and fixedness of the order of things, and so forth, and so forth. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Unnaturally still eyes, of an uncertain colour, gazed with a terrifying fixedness upon a human world, and were oddly set in the large and perfectly colourless face that was like an exaggerated waxen mask. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid Nevertheless Mr. Lincoln, with his wonted imperturbable fixedness when he had reached a conviction, did not modify his position in the slightest degree. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II To a close observer of the human face divine, however, his features are wanting in energy of will and fixedness of purpose. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 482, March 26, 1831 His great round eye watched Gwynplaine with the fixedness of an owl's. The Man Who Laughs And as regards this special virtue and prime quality of steadfastness and fixedness of purpose, you can do no good in the world without it. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) It recalled, too, the thought of man's evanescence and the apparent fixedness of his institutions. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 It served only as distinct proof that the President had correctly stated the fixedness of Mr. Davis. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II As there was no expression on his face, so also there was no expression in his eyes: no distant longing, no far-off fixedness; nothing, indeed, to awaken sad sympathy. Ships That Pass in the Night He looked at this attentively, and under the fixedness of his glance it became less indistinct. The Man Who Laughs And Paul means not only fixedness of intellectual conviction and continuity of loving response, but also habitual obedience, which is always ready to do His will. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) The Skimmer showed no yielding of the nerves though it was evident, by his attitude of thought and the momentary fixedness of his eye, that he foresaw danger was near. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas I am looking back at him, with a quiet fixedness. Nancy Rosamund Grey written in his twenty-third year, a story with something bitter and exaggerated, an almost insane fixedness of gloom perceptible in it, strikes clearly this note in his work. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice It was a comprehensive glance, having an indescribable fixedness in which there were both light and darkness, and which emanated from the skull and teeth, as well as the empty arches of the brow. The Man Who Laughs I need not speak about the blessedness of such a calm assurance, about the need of it for power, for peace, for effort, for fixedness in the midst of a world and age of change. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Also she saw that he had imbibed too freely, if the redness of his face and the glassy fixedness of his eyes could be read aright. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest But they are not so; they have an interest which holds the reader with a fixedness of grasp which he cannot loosen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 He looked at him, as he passed through the hall and up the staircase, going to dinner, with a glazed fixedness that Mr Dorrit did not like. Little Dorrit With such a system of justice and impartiality society would be, as a general thing, unable to act, and would return to the fixedness of Roman justice. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery There was something in the fixedness of its attention which caused him to look at it curiously for a few seconds, and Marco met his gaze squarely. The Lost Prince Within three years she became a determined and calculating little person who lacked nothing but a certain fixedness to be a complete character. The Indian Lily and Other Stories But when you began to make some statement to him, it was positively alarming to see him look you full in the face, and listen with inconceivable fixedness of attention to all you said. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 This turning of his intelligence and of his whole attempt and design against himself, did even more than his mother's fixedness and firmness to convince him that his efforts with her were idle. Little Dorrit The cross makes the profoundest revelation of the moral fixedness and self- control of God so long as we hold to the scriptural representation. Understanding the Scriptures In vain; the hazel eyes looked straight forward with an unwonted fixedness, the lips were firmly set, the hands clasped rigidly. The Lovels of Arden Once we encountered a boat of rude construction, painted all in gloomy black, and manned by three Indians, who gazed at us in silence and with a singular fixedness of eye. Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") His great power lay in his demand for fixedness of opinion. The Bride of Dreams For Mr. Raymount, he would not leave what he counted his work for any goddess in creation: Hester had got her fixedness of purpose through him, and its direction through her mother. Weighed and Wanting "What are you staring at?" the girl asked, presently, growing uneasy over the fixedness of his gaze. Ester Ried Yet Speaking But the secret of the magnet is, at length, revealed to him, and his needle now settles, with a fixedness which love has stolen as the symbol of its constancy, to the polar star. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader I sped across the light to the next shadow, and stood again, looking with fearful fixedness of gaze towards the far end of the corridor. The Portent & Other Stories It is this fixedness and placidity, conveying the impression of fate, death, repose, or immortality, which render sculpture so congenial as commemorative of the departed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 His vest and shirt were open, as he gazed with an air of fixedness on the city, and conversed to himself. A Love Story There was a strange fixedness in her gaze, as if only her eyes, not her thoughts, were directed upon its pages. The Story of Kennett Her large black eyes gazed with a fixedness full of thought and were without a tear. L'Assommoir It was as if their eternal fixedness grieved them, and they were setting out in a tumultuous crowd to the ends of the world. Selected Polish Tales I could not forbear, at last, to express my uneasiness at the fixedness of his features and attitude. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker If his eye looked calm, it was the tranquillity of apathetic ignorance, the fixedness of idiotcy. A Love Story Where is there such a demonstration of the fixedness of the divine law as in that death to which the Son of God submitted Himself for us all? Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII We need not ask ourselves the question whether the realisation of the ideal of this fixedness in its perfect completeness is possible for us here on earth or not. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The gloom of Benjulia's grave eyes deepened: they stared with a stern fixedness into vacancy. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time He stood, balanced, staring dreamily into the dim perspective; and again her fascinated eyes ventured to rest on the worn, white face, listless, sombre in its fixedness. The Fighting Chance "But you are not like that," said Mirah, looking at him with unconscious fixedness. Daniel Deronda This sense of fixedness—stony intractability—seems to belong to people who, instead of hope, which exalts everything into an airy, gaseous exhilaration, have a fixed and dogged purpose, around which everything congeals and crystallizes. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Marble or painting might render the fixedness of that look, but neither the one nor the other could portray its life—that is to say, its penetrating and magnetic action. The Companions of Jehu She looked at him with quivering lips through a mist of tears, looked at him with a desperate fixedness that sought to memorise indelibly his beloved image in her heart. The Sheik The Doge continued to stare on the speaker with the fixedness of regard that one might be supposed to fasten on a creature of unearthly existence. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons The fixedness of habit tends to make us move in ruts unless we exert continuous effort to learn new things. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study But yet it is its colour, weight, fusibility, fixedness, &c., which makes it to be gold, or gives it a right to that name, which is therefore its nominal essence. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 But it must be admitted that the phenomena of the divining-rod and table-turning are of precisely the same character, both being referable to an involuntary muscular action resulting from a fixedness of idea. The Folk-lore of Plants A remarkable instance of this fixedness of purpose occurred at this time. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 At length he grew weary of bending over the books, and of the persistent fixedness of attention required for the pursuit of fine shades of meaning in many different languages. The Prince of India — Volume 01 If, when you are memorizing, you continually tremble for fear that you will not recall at the desired moment, the fixedness of the impression will be greatly hindered. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study His name, as I gathered from the conversation, was Carlson, and I was considerably surprised at the fixedness with which his eyes were fastened upon me during the earlier part of the meal. My Lady of the North Nevertheless, the discrepancy is so slight in this case, that it would seem to be accidental, rather than to arise from the solidity or fixedness of the harbor-bed. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 The cat looked at him with great round eyes that were diabolical in their fixedness. Theresa Raquin There was fixedness of purpose in her face. The Prince of India — Volume 01 She had lain staring with a deadly quiet fixedness straight before her, saying next to nothing. The Head of the House of Coombe This, that being all derived from one verb, they cohere in the idea of fixedness which is common to them all. On the Study of Words The languishing attitude of Fleur-de-Marie, her paleness, the fixedness of her gaze, the bitterness of her half-smile, revealed a deep melancholy. Mysteries of Paris, V3 Her eyes rested on the murderers with the most acute fixedness. Theresa Raquin This was sorry comfort, and I fear that my laugh was anything but honest, while Mrs. Yocomb stared out of the window, at which she sat fanning herself, with a fixedness that I well understood. A Day of Fate That ended the discussion; but the need of less fixedness in instructions given was strongly impressed upon the husband, and a similar need in the following of instructions was equally impressed upon the wife. How to Study and Teaching How to Study Gregory looked up, and marked the fixedness of her gaze. Fran More than once she had caught him looking at her with a fixedness that betrayed perplexity so plainly that she could not fail to recognise an underlying motive. The Hollow of Her Hand He was happy to meet her eyes, and to see them rest upon his own with courageous fixedness. Theresa Raquin His poignant pessimism, however, only seemed to throw into relief the stubborn fixedness of his dominant purpose. The Silver Horde Then, clutching it tightly in his hand, he eyed me with a fixedness which, under any other circumstances, I should have found unbearable. The Beetle He inherited at the same time great fixedness of purpose and determination; and so prominent were these traits of his character, that they impressed every one who came in contact with him. Siege of Washington, D.C., written expressly for little people They stared with the unwinking fixedness of those whose gaze is caught in hypnotic trance. Angel Island The cold pallor which had been on her face all the afternoon gave way to a faint tinge of color, her eyes lost their stony fixedness and became restless and alert. Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend Her eyes ached from the fixedness of intense thought; the sweet broad brow was marble, the disorder of her hair spoke of self-abandonment in anguish. A Life's Morning Aurelia bent her eyes upon the deacon, who met the look with austere fixedness. Veranilda Alma's colour heightened ever so little, and she kept her eyes on the questioner with involuntary fixedness. The Whirlpool Her step grew nervously rapid, and the eyes settled upon the carpet with a fixedness of which she was unconscious. Beulah What sleep ever wore such pallid hues, such accusing fixedness? The Leavenworth Case Rosamund Grey, written in his twenty-third year, a story with something bitter and exaggerated, an almost insane fixedness of gloom perceptible in it, strikes clearly this note in his work. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Her eyes were on Saniel, placed between her and the chimney with his back to the lamps, and she looked at him with a characteristic fixedness. Conscience — Complete Her eyes were on Saniel, placed beween her and the chimney with his back to the lamps, and she looked at him with a characteristic fixedness. Conscience — Volume 3 In the car, the doctor, completely overwhelmed, sat with his arms folded on his breast, gazing with idiotic fixedness upon some imaginary point in space. Five Weeks in a Balloon The other rolled horribly, then set in blank dead fixedness. The Man of the Forest In proof of this she could not but see that the instability which she had so dreaded in his earlier years had given way to a certain fixedness of purpose and firm self-reliance. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn She looked at him with such obstinate fixedness, that the words expired on his lips. Within an Inch of His Life Her large glittering eyes did not seem to recognise Alison, but they glared upon Mauleverer with a strange terrible fixedness, as if unable to see any one else. Clever Woman of the Family Conventional standards, which seemed to have the fixedness of the stars are blown to the winds. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy Mr. Granger sat down firmly and worked himself into the seat of his chair, as though to secure an additional fixedness of tenure. Beatrice He could not but perceive that it was so from the fixedness of her face, and from the constrained manner in which she gazed before her. The Last Chronicle of Barset Catherine stood there before the fire, with her hands behind her, looking at her aunt, to whom it seemed that the girl had never had just this dark fixedness in her gaze. Washington Square There was no trembling and uncertainty, no rage of possession in that brilliant smile; it had the gleam of fixedness, like the smiling of a star. The Island Pharisees There was a fixedness in her look and a recklessness in her step that showed anger and determination. The Golden Dog He attended much to Pranayama, or the gradual suppression of breathing, and he secured fixedness of mind as follows. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance He dropped his eyeglass with a clatter against his waistcoat, threw the card into his finger-glass, raised his pale eyes, and stared at Sir Gilbert with all the fixedness they were capable of. Sir Gibbie Catherine on her side was silent for a while; she was looking at him while he looked, with a good deal of fixedness, out of the window. Washington Square Very soon, probably owing to the fixedness of my gaze, or my unremitting exertion, or both, Lisbeth seemed to become aware of the situation, and turned to look over her shoulder. My Lady Caprice "The man's views are hateful enough," she answered, "but he is in earnest, and however misguided he may be there is something noble in his unselfishness, in his, steady fixedness of purpose." The Yellow Crayon Hence come my fixedness of purpose or rather obstinacy, and my powers of unchristian hatred that are not small towards those who have wronged me. Montezuma's Daughter The great defect of both his constitutions is the fixedness which he seeks to impress upon them. Laws Again, in every process of reflection we seem to require a standing ground, and in the attempt to obtain a complete analysis we lose all fixedness. Sophist By the gaslight his face showed pale and sunken, and he met Jasper's look with fixedness. New Grub Street Her hair lay tangled on her shoulders; her face had assumed a strange fixedness; her gentle blue eyes, so soft and tender at all other times, were lit up wildly. After Dark To this he was probably led by the fixedness of Egyptian customs and the general observation that there were other civilisations in the world more ancient than that of Hellas. Timaeus I cannot give my thoughts to reading; if I sat unoccupied, they would brood with melancholy fixedness on I know not what. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft At that age a predominant idea contracts a certain peevish fixedness which is the first stage of monomania. The Alkahest They were not all saints— perhaps none of them were—but there was a homely honesty and a fixedness of principle about the majority of them that "made for righteousness" wherever they were found. The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart. Jane Eyre There was a certain want of fixedness of purpose which she had certainly not noticed before—a quick, spasmodic utterance which belongs rather to the insane than to those of intellectual equilibrium. Lair of the White Worm |
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