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One has to write according to the impulse that seizes one and after the fashion of one's own mind. [11]
For awhile that wild bewilderment which seizes upon the minds of the strongest, when lost, mastered him, in spite of his struggles against it. [11]
A good caricature, which seizes the prominent features and gives them the character Nature hinted, but did not fully carry out, is a work of genius. [6]
The cholera generally vanquishes a Neapolitan when it seizes him, because, you understand, before the doctor can dig through the dirt and get at the disease the man dies. [5]
The new President, too, seizes the early occasion of the Silliman letter to indorse and strongly construe that decision, and to express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained! [7]
I said to them, 'This is Buhram,' and he was seized just as a cat seizes a mouse. [5]
In due time the world seizes upon these wondrous youth, opens the shell of their possibilities like the valves of an oyster, swallows them at a gulp, and they are for the most part heard of no more. [6]
He seizes upon the doctrines he supposes to be included in that speech, and declares that upon them will turn the issues of this campaign. [7]
It always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around. [5]
Not until Els stooped to pick it up did he calm himself, saying, with a shrug of the shoulders, "Who can remain unmoved when the whirlwind of despair seizes him? [10]
Yes, when rage seizes upon me, when my beard begins to tremble, my small share of sense flies away as fast as your doves when you let them go. [10]
The passion of poetry seizes on him every spring, he says,--yet oftentimes he complains, that, when he feels most, he can sing least. [6]
It's partly pride, partly the undefeated thing in him, partly the gambling spirit which seizes men when nothing is left but one great spectacular success or else be blotted out. [11]
Yet was it not difficult to understand how she could even think of the poor fellow at all while hastening to the illustrious sovereign whose heart was hers, and who had taught her with what impetuous power true love seizes upon the soul. [10]
Spain closes the Mississippi, arrests our merchants, seizes their goods, and often throws them into prison. [9]
Once there, the lady seized the pen as a soldier seizes the sword, and wrote her name in most uncompromising characters on the register, Miss Lucretia Penniman, Boston. [9]
It seizes all: Knights, maidens, wives and widows; not one is spared. [10]
Then he bursts into one of his wild furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. [2]
Wise and happy if by a further touch of genius he seizes the situation: henceforth he is her master. [11]
Just like Rome herself, who seizes on one country after another to make them her own, so is this ruthless man. [10]
So the prisoner going to execution seizes one of the few moments left to him for prayer, to look lingeringly upon what he leaves, as though to carry into the dark a clear remembrance of it all. [11]
I mean to go and live wherever the fancy seizes me--at the wharf--at the counting-house--and be a jolly bachelor. [12]
When a submarine gets you, all you've got to do is to jump overboard and blow this-- (He draws the siren from the pocket and starts to blow it, but she seizes his hand. [9]
The one party first appropriates her own share, beyond all power to be disturbed in the possession of it, and then seizes the share of the other party. [7]
It was dimly borne in on him, as he gazed at the hospital in the distance, that this thing called Love, which seizes upon our innermost selves, which takes up residence in the inner sanctuary, may not be dislodged. [11]
The people have been liberally entertained, and the soldier who has been sacrificing to Dionysus seizes the gifts of Eros and Aphrodite wherever he may find them. [10]
He does things because they are there to do, not because some great passion, some exaltation, seizes him. [11]
The beggar seizes as a treasure what the rich man scornfully casts aside. [10]
His mind seizes and appropriates what he desires to represent, at a single hasty grasp. [10]
Sulphur is of an oily and fiery nature; in combination with salt by its fiery nature it arouses a desire in the latter by means of which it attracts mercury, seizes it, holds it, and in combination produces other bodies. [2]
They stay on a plantation till the desire to travel seizes them; then they pack up, hail a steamboat, and clear out. [5]
Forty comes to a man of temperament, and then a passion for a cause seizes him, and he is safe. [11]
Washed away like a dry branch which the swift Reuss seizes and hurries out of our sight! [10]

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