Early rising, or sitting up late, had put him out of temper, and the passion into which he worked himself about this trifle was very amusing.
The voice of nature pleading for his remaining child is stifled by passion and resentment.
One thing, however, we soon learned, that the services of these men were not to be hired; their ruling passion for the chase and the national principle of hospitality were incentives enough to the proposed expedition.
Socrates associated with courtesans, without passion and without reproof, in a spirit of half-sarcastic, philosophic tolerance.
During Passion Week in Rome no services are more impressive than those of the seven "last words," with the hymns, prayers, and exhortations accompanying them.
All consideration was forgotten in the blind passion of the hour.
Such giving way topassion would injure only himself.
Now the passion awoke with tenfold force, and he had not been in his place a week before he began to make sketches of little things that pleased him.
This should be eloquent with all the feeling and passion that the human face could express, and she would insure its truthfulness to life by copying life itself--the reality.
His whole soul being bent on the acquirement of money, for reasons that will be explained further on, his momentary passion soon passed away when he found he had sustained no material injury.
For anger, passion with one's self, as well as with any one else, renders true prayer impossible.
In proportion to the slowness with which her love had been kindled was its intensity--the steady, concentrated passion of a strong, resolute nature, for the first time fully aroused.
To her artist nature, and with her passion and power for sketching, the Highlands on the Hudson were paradise.
Chief among these was pride; and under the influence of this passion and the acute suffering of her unsoothed, unguided spirit, she began to rebel in impotent anger.
His passion was now becoming a species of intoxication, a continued and feverish excitement, and its influence was unhappy on mind and body.
Never before had this passion for the beautiful in nature been so gratified, and all the artist feeling within her awoke.
I have only to avail myself of what exists from no fault of mine, and surely I ought to; otherwise the passion of the infatuated youth will be utterly wasted, and do no one any good.
Struck into a great Passion at the sight of the Book.
When I spoke to you of the most violent passion that ever was, you listened to me with a tranquility, a languor that was incomprehensible.
And there was a sudden depth of passion in his young voice as he added, "I'm going to give you my sign and seal again, beloved.
For in that love I rested and was content, for delight and laughter have been thy food, and deep thou hast ever drunk of our love which was untainted with the human passion and hunger which now thou callest love.
It has always seemed to us that vituperative swearing is too closely allied to the passion of animosity to be ever successfully treated apart from the human failing from which it takes its rise.
They have contended, and with some amount of probability, that these jarring expletives of passion and irreligion have only been perpetuated by reason of the familiarity that has ensued from the undue exaction of legal tests.
Of itself it can be accounted nothing but a mere outcome of bombast and vulgarity, appealing as it does to no known passion of the human mind.
Many a man with the passion for antiquity deep at his heart, and with limbs well girded to attain to the summit of his aim, has been fain to settle down, jaded and dispirited, at mid-task.
The keynote is the oath which, in all ages and in all languages, passion seems to generate with but very little assistance.
But I tell you frankly, that had I destroyed you in mypassion I should have been a miserable man.
When Arthur heard his door shut, and when he knew that no one would come in again, the storm began, and it was a storm of passion when sorrow, and anger, and affection all raged together.
She did not open it until he was gone; and perhaps it was well that Arthur did not see the passion of tears that were shed over that little parcel.
Would that some call he could not choose but heed-- Of private passion or of public need-- At last might sting to life that slothful power, And snare him into greatness for an hour!
Or hast thou Fall'n from thy faith in Her and Love ere now, And is thy passionas a robe outworn?
The passion of benign desire, The glorious yearning, lift him higher Than many a soul That mounts a million paces nigher Its meaner goal.
II Lo, with the ancient Roots of man's nature, Twines the eternalPassion of song.
Or deem'st that if thou shouldst abide My passion might decay?
Arunodaya, all heedless of the passion that menaced his abandoned body, lay, as it were, drowned in the honey of his dream.
For her, the night and the storm had no terrors; passion had driven out fear.
They've got more emotion and more passion than any other people, and they learn easier.
The passion of Jesus Christ, and indeed His whole public ministry, alone offer a parallel to the Mission and death of the Báb, a parallel which no student of comparative religion can fail to perceive or ignore.
So great is their love for these roses, that sleepless from dusk till dawn, they warble their melodies and commune with burning passion with the object of their adoration.
I did not speak to her of love, but I felt she knew my passionfor her, and was learning to return it.
Is this that transient passion which men enjoy as they bite at doubtful fruits and throw them away when tasted?
I was not long in discovering that the abbess had conceived a passion for me, and I became her too docile favorite.
They had a very passion of amusing themselves with nothings.
Grant that I Thy passionview With repentant grieving, Nor Thee crucify anew By unholy living.
I consider a gentleman to be, to a certain degree, a philosopher, for very often he is obliged, to support his character as such, to put up with what another person may very properly fly in a passion about.
The old lady broke out into a most violent passion at the intelligence, declared that it was my fault, that I was jealous of the dog, and had done it on purpose.
When an author undertakes to treat of public happiness, he ought to be certain that he does not mistake passion for right, nor imagination for principle.
I see the face, with passion fiery, The full voluptuous lips and greedy eyes, I see and shudder.
Eros with them is but an empty name; Passion and lust and horrible ambition Form the emotions of these "blessed" ones.
A chaste, pale spirit of the lonely moon, A white Diana of nocturnal glades, Yet in the magic of the ardent sun I've seen thee flame into an Aphrodite, A glowing type of passion and desire.
A real power of delineating passion was exhibited in the scene where Parthenia repulses the advances of her too venturesome admirer, and in this direction, to our minds, the best efforts of the lady tend.
In the latter scenes she interpreted the very spirit and soul of tragedy, and thrilled the whole house into silence by the depth of her passion and her power.
The story of this bird's training is as characteristic of her passion for stage realism as of that indomitable power of will to overcome obstacles, to which much of her success is due.
Mr. Woude happened to be one of her father's patients, and the conversation turning one day upon Mary's passion for a theatrical career, the older actor expressed a wish to hear her read.
The passion for a theatrical career seems to have been born in the child.
Is it natural that his love for his church should outweigh his passion for the woman?
They affect to be what passion deludes us into thinking them.
De Musset speaks of the "little pebble": But when upon your fated way you meet Some dumb memorial of a passion dead, That little pebble stops you, and you dread To bruise your tender feet.
Roebuck's passion was wealth--to see the millions heap up and up.
The book is a great drama of the breaking out of the French Revolution, a time when every passion was at its height and was exhibited with utter unrestraint.
Alas, it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.
Leo is the only sign governed by the sun, and to this solar influence is ascribed the passion and impetuosity of its subjects.
There are some, of course, in whom the passion is ingrained, and from whose natures it can never be wholly eradicated.
To descend from metaphor to matter of fact, there is no game which gives freer rein to the passion of gambling than faro.
