...ness. This went on and on, day after day. Whenever I sat, it started—this vibration like an epileptic fit or something. Not even an epileptic fit; it... ...ion—ionization, if I may use your scientific term. Thought is, after all, vibration. When this kind of ionization of thought takes place it sometimes... ... mouth because that is what is moving and the ears will receive the sound vibrations. There is nothing inside which links up the two and says that i... ...tening, when you leave the sense of hearing alone all that is there is the vibration of the sound. The words repeat themselves inside of you as in an... ...g. All that the other person's words can possibly be to you is a noise, a vibration picked up by the eardrum and transferred to the nerves which run ... ...ansferred to the nerves which run to the brain. You are translating those vibrations all the time trying to understand because you want to get someth... ...onse to the sound. The sound sets in motion the tympanum. So it is just a vibration. You really don't know what he is talking about. This is a physio... ...eath, literally to death, or damage something. Thought is a very powerful vibration, an extraordinary vibration. It is like an atom. You can't play ... ...ndependent existence of its own apart from pleasure and pain. The various vibrations affecting the body may differ in intensity but it is you who div...

...on your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of ... ...ing invocation; nor yet the low laugh from the hold; nor yet the presaging vibrations of the winds in the cordage; nor yet the hollow flap of the sail... ... threads of the warp subject to but one single, ever returning, unchanging vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise inter... ...ecessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course—its every alternating vibration, in- deed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her ... ...ne of the two enormous hooks suspending the head tore out, and with a vast vibration the enormous mass sideways swung, till the drunk ship reeled and ...

...e memory of that time itself lin- gers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simpl... ...beating of a big drum filled the air with muffled shocks and a linger- ing vibration. A steady droning sound of many men chant- ing each to himself so...

... journey on horseback from any turnpike, where it was never reached by the vibrations of the coach-horn, or of public opinion. It was an important-loo... ... if a new fineness of ear for all spiritual voices had sent wonder-working vibrations through the heavy mortal frame—as if “beauty born of murmuring s...

... force, what we call colour and sound is there no more than this length of vibration of that. We have reached to a con- ception of that universe of mo...

...he sweet tones which issued from the instru- ment, and return the heavenly vibration from her lovely mouth. Oh! who can express my sensations? I was q...

... the other clean.’ Here he emitted a chuckling grunt, which lasted for two vibrations of the pendulum exactly, and was the only ap- proach towards lau...

...lled the rays of the sun with wonderful intensity, which accounted for the vibration which pen- etrated every atom of liquid. Shall I be believed when... ...ths would pass ere she could leave her bed of coral. However, some warning vibrations began to be felt in the vessel. I heard the keel grating against... ...great coat of byssus, lined with sealskin; I was ready, I was waiting. The vibration of the screw alone broke the deep silence which reigned on board.... ...ghts, and its white lantern hanging from the large foremast. An indistinct vibration quivered through its rigging, show- ing that the furnaces were he...

...too soon with a repetition of my idle question. Just then there came a vague vibration in the earth and air, quickly changing into a violent pulsation... ...er confused the spectre’s ring with the man’s. The ghost’s ring is a strange vibration in the bell that it de “The Signal Man” Charles Dickens 11 ... ...kens 24 rung by rats, or mice, or bats, or wind, or what other acci dental vibration, or sometimes by one cause, sometimes an other, and sometimes ...

... of the rush of the wind, the crashes of the sea, with that prolonged deep vibration of the air, like the roll of an immense and remote drum beating t... ...inct at once — thought, inten- tion, effort — and of his cry the inaudible vibration added to the tempest waves of the air. He expected nothing from i... ...e the excess of her strength in a white cloud of steam — and the deeptoned vibration of the escape was like the defiant trumpeting of a living creatur...

...e end of the last word, into a sort of faint resonance, like the lingering vibrations of a fine violoncello, I can compare to nothing for its strong c... ... and binding together your whole being past and present in one unspeakable vibration, melting you in one moment with all the tenderness, all the love ...

...tually in his nose; and he had attached himself to sounds and suggestions, vibrations of the air, human and dramatic, he imagined, as they were not in... ...ostes et Telegraphes—the something in the air of these establishments; the vibration of the vast strange life of the town, the influence of the types,...

...ast chord died upon his ear, he raised his head to listen to its lingering vibration. Beyond the boy, so that his sleeping figure lay at its feet, the...

... so’s time. One still sees. The sense of vision is a question of length of vibration, and not of multitude of im- pacts; but there’s a kind of shock t... ...wn. The whole stagnation seemed to wake up as I did so, the disarticulated vibration of the band rushed together into a blast of music, the promenader...

...common with the toothless aged. She was shaky, not with fear, but with the vibrations natural to her years, and she spoke with the slow quavering firm...

... Dorset indeed was always jerky; but it seemed to Selden that tonight each vibration swung him farther from his centre. The dinner, meanwhile, was mov... ...her stay with you?” she asked. He caught her hand, and she felt in his the vibration of feeling that had not yet risen to his lips. “Lily—can’t I help...

...dy CHAPTER XVII She was not praying; she was trembling—trembling all over. Vibration was easy to her, was in fact too constant with her, and she found... ...lly to do with making her abstain from interference. His utterance was the vibration of glass, and if she had put out her finger she might have change... ...m a fool whatever he should say, suddenly gave him a lash and added a deep vibration to his low voice. “You’re perfectly inscrutable, and that’s what ...

... crack of the door, must have made millions and millions of precisely such vibrations as these; but the children were new, and made over every day, wi...

...like ‘em afloat or ashore.’ The stolid commander appeared by a very slight vibration in his elbows, to express some satisfitction in this encomium; bu... ...rcle about him, until there was no room left. Or, like a sound in air, the vibration of which, according to the speculation of an ingenious modern phi... ... Princess’s Place, making his timid little roots of daisies shudder in the vibration of every yell he gave, as though he had been an ogre, hawking lit... ...ing when another Devil would come by. A trembling of the ground, and quick vibration in his ears; a distant shriek; a dull light advancing, quickly ch...

...uld have liked to see.” His little bald head quivered, imparting a comical vibration to the wisp of white goatee. His enunciation would have been almo...