Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn
mood of the popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment, and herself the object.
But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what
mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.
This was not always his
mood, of course; he still loved his family.
The subjunctive
mood, past perfect tense of the verb `to know.
I felt I had him at a disadvantage, had caught him in the
mood of indiscretion; and to tell the truth I was not curious to learn what might have driven a young medical student out of London.
Complete surrender to a particular
mood until the
mood itself surrenders to the artist, and afterwards silent ceaseless toil until a form worthy of its expression has been achieved -- this is the method of Li Po and his fellows.
In regard to his companions his mind wa- vered between two opinions, according to his
mood.
The West Wind reigns over the seas surrounding the coasts of these kingdoms; and from the gateways of the channels, from promontories as if from watch-towers, from estuaries of rivers as if from postern gates, from passage-ways, inlets, straits, firths, the garrison of the Isle and the crews of the ships going and returning look to the westward to judge by the varied splendours of his sunset mantle the
mood of that arbitrary ruler.
When the spirit that answered your every
mood Is gone wherever it goes--for good, You will discover how much you care, And will give your heart to a dog to tear!
When she was pink she was feeling less then when pale; her more perfect beauty accorded with her less elevated
mood; her more intense
mood with her less perfect beauty.
Their squadron remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostov spent that day in a dull and wretched
mood.
But she was in a
mood when it is almost physically disagreeable to interrupt the stride of one's thought, and she walked up and down two or three times under the trees before approaching his staircase.
