"Keenness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marked the keenness of his wit and the elevation of his sentiments, were quoted with pleasure in the assemblies ...
— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan
... suffering. Disdainful of honours, of titles, and of academies, like one of the old Knight-Hospitallers, generous, fatherly to the poor, and practising virtue without believing in it, he would almost have passed for a saint if the keenness of his intellect had not caused him to be feared as a demon. His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences. And thus ...
— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert
... preaching. The people drew nearer when Dinah Morris mounted the cart which served as a pulpit. There was a total absence of self-consciousness in her demeanour; she walked to the cart as simply as if she were going to market. There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations. When Dinah spoke it was with a clear but not loud voice, and her sincere, unpremeditated eloquence held the attention of her audience ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
... discouragements of his last voyage, the prospect of comfort and honours in France seemed to hold more inducements for him than the idea of once more facing the dangers of the deep. His limbs were not so sturdy as of old, his eye had lost something of its keenness, and the hardships and anxieties of the last winter had left their mark upon him. He had money enough to support him to the end of his days, and he had purchased the seignorial mansion of Limoilou—that ancient stone house which ...
— Marguerite De Roberval - A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier • T. G. Marquis
... Frere bitterly. "You do not know the Baggaras. They are keenness itself. It is real enough, but I am well paid ...
— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn
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