"Tensity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Asia, fair Norsemen and Teutons, olive-skinned Italians and men and women of the swarthier peoples of Palestine, Poles, Finns, Lithuanians, Russians, Bulgars, Bohemians, units of that mass which had welded in the city of the Great Lakes of America, looked out from behind the iron fence. The tensity written on their faces, eager yet awed, brought back to James Thorold another time when men and women had stood within a Chicago railway terminal waiting for a funeral cortege, the time when Illinois waited in sorrow to take Abraham Lincoln, dead, to her heart. The memory of that other ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... of the stile, and faced the gathering. He stood rigid, and his eyes flashed with deep passion. His hands, hanging at the seams of his jeans breeches, clenched, and his voice came in a slow utterance through which throbbed the tensity of a soul-absorbing bitterness. ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... every possible significance demandingly into the word, and the boy's voice was suddenly quiet in its tensity as he ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... front. Not even a star shell disturbed the blue black starlight. The guns were quiet. Five minutes more and all this was to change into an inferno of sound and light, flash and crash. There is always that minute of uncertainty before the raiding hour when the tensity of the situation becomes almost painful. Has the enemy happened to become aware of the plans? Have our men been deprived of the needed element of surprise? But for the thousands of metres behind us, we know that in black battery pits anxious crews are standing ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons |
