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... directive force in the determination of the attention to their images or ideas; that this directive force is strongest in the case of very acute angles, the attention being carried forward in the direction indicated by the apex of the angle; but that uncompleted lines, especially when two such lines are directed towards each other, have a similar and not much inferior force in the control of the ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... church of St. Catherine. It was not until 1366 that the cathedral was sufficiently repaired to be used by the canons. Once begun, however, the repairs continued, although slowly. But the tower remained uncompleted as it was at the outbreak of the Great War, standing above the square at the great height of 97.70 metres." On each face of the tower was a large open-work clock face, or "cadran," of gilded copper. Each face was ...

— Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders • George Wharton Edwards

... ane meenit, Tammy," she whispered, "no' to wauken the grandmither." It was in so very short a minute that the lassie climbed out onto the classic pediment of a tomb and dropped into the kirkyard that her toilet was uncompleted. Tammy buttoned her washed-out cotton gown at the back, and she sat on a slab to lace her shoes. If the fun of giving Bobby his bath was to be enjoyed to the full there must be no unnecessary delay. This ...

— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson

... avenging his uncompleted grunt.] Let's have the men in and hear what they've got ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... though darkly alien Those uncompleted worlds of work to be Are waned; still, touched by them, the memory Gives afterglow; and now that comes again The mellow season when Our eyes last met, his kindling currents run Quickening within me gladness ...

— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

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