That is pain to me, and always will be pain, until my faculties lose their keenness, like aged eyes.
His faculties seemed to be renewing their strength from getting a footing on this demonstration of the senses.
" He repeated the words impatiently from time to time, appearing entirely unconscious of everything except this one importunate want, and giving no sign of knowing his wife or any one else; and poor Mrs Tulliver, her feeble faculties almost paralyzed by this sudden accumulation of troubles, went backward and forward to the gate to see if the Laceham coach were coming, though it was not yet time.
Mr Stelling's faculties had been early trained to boring in a straight line, and he had no faculty to spare.
" said Tom, beginning to have a puzzled suspicion that Philip's crooked back might be the source of remarkable faculties.
But Mr Stelling took no note of these things; he only observed that Tom's faculties failed him before the abstractions hideously symbolised to him in the pages of the Eton Grammar, and that he was in a state bordering on idiocy with regard to the demonstration that two given triangles must be equal, though he could discern with great promptitude and certainty the fact that they were equal.
Trumbull, who was enjoying the utmost activity of his great faculties.
I've got my faculties as if I was in my prime, but names wear out, by Jove!
It's three o'clock in the morning, and I've got all my faculties as well as ever I had in my life.
Featherstone's face required its whole scale of grimaces as a muscular outlet to his silent triumph in the soundness of his faculties.
They seemed to quicken unsuspected faculties into life.
All her faculties were concentrated on deciding just what she would say and how she would say it.
So he had only hacked that place in order to be doing something—in order to pass the weary time—in order to employ his tortured faculties.
Tom stood a moment, to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings.
He once recited three thousand verses without stopping; but the strain upon his mental faculties was too great, and he was little better than an idiot from that day forth—a grievous misfortune for the school, for on great occasions, before company, the superintendent (as Tom expressed it) had always made this boy come out and "spread himself.
They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
"To play a man who's begun to lose his mental faculties, Hopkins methodically strips away every quality we've come to expect from him – the refinement, the silver tongue, the imposing intensity – until there's nothing left but frailty and distress," writes AA Dowd in AV Club.
Faith in immortality because it renders less bitter the separation from those I have loved and lost, and because it will free me from unnatural limitations and unfold still more faculties I have in joyous activity.
"But in chasing all that, " he adds, "we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.
Once conform ,once do what other people do finer than they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul, He becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
