She was wont to say plaintively, "I'm afraid the faculties was too much divided up between my twins.
A gathering call ran among the faculties, their bugles sang, their trumpets rang an untimely summons.
These, like all his faculties, were active, eager for nutriment, and alive to gratification when it came.
The old priest, who at first had seemed to me so deaf and infirm, must yet have retained his faculties in tolerable preservation; absorbed in his book as he appeared, without once lifting his head, or, as far as I knew, turning his eyes, he perceived the point towards which my attention was drawn, and, in a slow distinct voice, dropped, concerning it, these four observations:— "She was much beloved.
when that heavy and overcast dawn began at last to yield to day; when my faculties began to struggle themselves, free, and my time of energy and fulfilment came; when I voluntarily doubled, trebled, quadrupled the tasks he set, to please him as I thought, his kindness became sternness; the light changed in his eyes from a beam to a spark; he fretted, he opposed, he curbed me imperiously; the more I did, the harder I worked, the less he seemed content.
But the faculties soon settled each in his place; the life-machine presently resumed its wonted and regular working.
Her weak faculties approved of inertion: her brain, her eyes, her ears, her heart slept content; they could not wake to work, so lethargy was their Paradise.
I felt I was getting on; not lying the stagnant prey of mould and rust, but polishing my faculties and whetting them to a keen edge with constant use.
At last I met a sort of patrol, and my dreaded hunters were turned from the pursuit; but they had driven me beyond my reckoning: when I could collect my faculties, I no longer knew where I was; the staircase I must long since have passed.
Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death.
The doll, duly night-capped and night-gowned, lay in its cradle; she was rocking it to sleep, with an air of the most perfect faith in its possession of sentient and somnolent faculties; her eyes, at the same time, being engaged with a picture-book, which lay open on her lap.
No doubt his blackmailing case is absorbing all his faculties.
But it is too soon to know whether Dick's faculties will be eventually restored, wholly or in part.
Anne, I have come to the conclusion that if Dick Moore were taken to a good hospital and the operation of trephining performed on several places in his skull, his memory and faculties might be restored.
With Hareton the resemblance is carried farther: it is singular at all times, then it was particularly striking; because his senses were alert, and his mental faculties wakened to unwonted activity.
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg.
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.
