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intentness
1. M: By your progress in intentness, in clarity and devotion to the
2. He brooded for an instant, scowling with the intentness of his thoughts; then seized Sancha's olive shoulder in a grip that made her wince
3. They harkened with keen dark eyes and inscrutable countenances, and they went their ways without comment, and heeded with flattering intentness his instructions as to the working of iron, and kindred arts
4. manifest God-with unshaken intentness, from the abyss of the mortal
5. with firm intentness, God begins to regulate his inner life
6. straint of the mind, intentness, tuning the body, speech, and mind to the
7. if he worships him (Krishn)- the one God-with intentness, and his Soul is
8. Gertrud sat watching for the first glimpse of our destination with the intentness of a second Brangäne
9. Herr Dremmel did not wish to be disturbed once he was in there, and she would steal down the passage on tip-toe, biting her under-lip in the intentness of her care that no rattling of the things on the tray should reach his ears
10. All other thoughts were now lost in the intentness with which she was concentrated on what she had to do exactly next
11. He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode
12. Muffled as the sound was by its passage through the church-walls, Hester Prynne listened with such intentness, and sympathized so intimately, that the sermon had throughout a meaning for her, entirely apart from its indistinguishable words
13. Sherlock Holmes had listened to this long narrative with an intentness which showed me that his interest was keenly aroused
14. The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him
15. Though near nightfall, the rank-smelling weed-flowers glowed as if they would not close for intentness, and the waves of colour mixed with the waves of sound
16. Prince Bagration and Tushin looked with equal intentness at Bolkonski, who spoke with
17. He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry-bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode
18. He gazed with some intentness at the English barricades of the two highways,—two large abatis of trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chasse's brigade
19. All spatial and temporal relations are correlated with him alone and only in relation to him do they acquire valuative meaning: “high”, “far”, “above”, “below”, “abyss”, “boundlessness” – all these expressions reflect the life and the intentness of the mortal human being (not in their abstract mathematical signification, of course, but in their emotional-volitional, valuative sense)
20. The place was filled with creeping, crawling things; cold, sinuous bodies passed over me when I lay down, and in the darkness I occasionally caught glimpses of gleaming, fiery eyes, fixed in horrible intentness upon me
21. There was a look as it were of exaggerated intentness and of unnecessary and excessive determination in his eyes
22. ” He announced this quietly, briefly, forcing out his words, and gazing with dull intentness at the priest
23. She looked with awful intentness at Katerina Ivanovna
24. The boys were excited and they, too, wanted to say something, but they restrained themselves, looking with intentness and emotion at the speaker
25. They raised their eyes to me, but went on with their work with the same intentness
26. All thus was done with such swiftness, with such intentness, as it is impossible to describe to a man who has never seen it done
