1 For an instance there was a silence so acute it seemed that neither of them even breathed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER VI 2 Her boredom was acute and ever present.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER VII 3 It annoyed her that her quick reprimands brought such acute fright to his round eyes, for he looked so simple minded when he was frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXV 4 Lily smiled also: his words were too acute not to strike her sense of humour.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 6 5 The Silverton affair is in the acute stage: it's necessary that George's attention should be pretty continuously distracted.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 1 6 But now that they had become her own people, to bathe and encourage and adorn, she had an acute and uncomfortable interest in them.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER III 7 There came over her the acute longing which always summoned into her spiritual vision the presence of the beloved one, overpowering her at once with a sense of the unattainable.
8 In these brief pauses, Heyward and the sisters listened, with senses rendered doubly acute by the danger, to detect any symptoms which might announce the proximity of their foes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 14 9 Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 19 10 Sometimes his anger at the commanders reached an acute stage, and he grumbled about the camp like a veteran.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 2 11 He developed the acute exasperation of a pestered animal, a well-meaning cow worried by dogs.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 5 12 There was an acute interest in all their faces during this exchange of view points.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 23 13 The fair, high-bred child, with her golden head, her deep eyes, her spiritual, noble brow, and prince-like movements; and her black, keen, subtle, cringing, yet acute neighbor.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XX 14 He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers upon the table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 15 Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.