1 Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 When I looked at him he had finished reading the note, and his eyes had assumed the vacant, lack-lustre expression which showed mental abstraction.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 3 His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply from side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity.
4 Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 5 With patient courage, strengthened by the interval which she had employed in mental devotion, Rebecca again took post at the lattice, sheltering herself, however, so as not to be visible from beneath.
6 Meanwhile, the lord of the beleaguered and endangered castle lay upon a bed of bodily pain and mental agony.
7 They loved their respective young men, and their respective young men loved them with all the passion of mental attraction.
8 In their minds and their mental excitements, that is.
9 I don't do any high and pure mental work, nothing but jot down a few ideas.
10 Hammond she didn't really like; he seemed so selfish in a mental way.
11 The tie that binds us just now is mental friction on one another.
12 It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite.
13 No, there's something wrong with the mental life, radically.
14 And I do think you confuse the mental life with the critical activity.
15 I was talking about the mental life, laughed Dukes.