"Tensity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more unendurable. In sheer self-defense she was obliged to move, to say something, to break the tensity of the strain. One step—the single step by which she had dared to draw nearer him, stretching out yearning hands toward him—one step sufficed to take her back to the world of conventionalities and commonplaces, where ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King
... for some purpose. Are you soft on that chicken? Has she blarneyed you into this?" demanded his chief, rising, unsteadily, but fierce in his suspicious tensity. ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball
... listening with a tensity which momentarily grew more painful. The Master's forehead, too, was creased with a new thought that seemed to hurt him. To break the brief silence that followed the guest's ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune
... to a hair, full of life and fire. Of all the beautiful things on earth, there is nothing of nobler beauty than a noble horse; and Rover, in his clean-limbed gloss and tensity, was a sight to thrill the crowds that were privileged to see him spurn the earth, and arch his graceful neck, and curvet a little for the subtle joy that comes of spending power when power is there in a very plethora. Every ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton
... little closer together by common impulse as if for alliance in danger. A long silence, freighted with tensity, followed until Fairley inquired in ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck |
