 | 1909 - 550 oldal
...nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance — which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Edwin Mims - 1910 - 460 oldal
...by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar phys' ical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Walter B. Pitkin - 1912 - 284 oldal
...of his fluctuating voice, "varying rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seem utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, an<f hollow-sounding enunciation — that leaden, self-balanced, and perfectly modulated guttural utterance,... | |
 | Walter B. Pitkin - 1913 - 292 oldal
...of his fluctuating voice, "varying rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seem utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard . . ." Was there ever such a voice? And does the lost drunkard... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1914 - 544 oldal
...agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1914 - 344 oldal
...agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1914 - 396 oldal
...physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice 10 varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the...and perfectly modulated guttural utterance — which may 15 be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of... | |
 | Lemuel Arthur Pittenger - 1914 - 306 oldal
...agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed 10 been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when 15 the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt,... | |
 | 1914 - 424 oldal
...agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed, been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from a tremendous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 oldal
...agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been 5 prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions...varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the ani- 10 mal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt,... | |
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I was at once struck with an incoherence, an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been... 
