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  • The ever-attentive tender at bar was already lining up bottles of various sizes including yellow chartreuse, bitters, honey, and a vodka infused with lemon.†   (source)
  • The shades would infuse it with their chill presence, and I had wanted to feel that power, ashen and unearthly.†   (source)
  • I stepped into the kitchen and took out a can of Sludge, a high-protein, vitamin D—infused breakfast drink (to help counteract my sunlight deprivation).†   (source)
  • Like Leonardo, Walt Disney loved infusing hidden messages and symbolism in his art.†   (source)
  • Peter turns slowly, every limb infused with tension.†   (source)
  • The air filled with adrenaline-induced war cries from Redd's soldiers, agony-infused moans from the throats of King Nolan's men.†   (source)
  • She didn't recognize my father's voice infused with hate.†   (source)
  • She looks beautiful to him, tired, the concentrated light of the dying day on her face, infusing it with an amber-pink glow.†   (source)
  • The quail should be immersed in this sauce for ten minutes to infuse them with the flavor, and then removed.†   (source)
  • He attended the Ethical Culture School on Central Park West, perhaps the most progressive school in the nation, where, his biographers write, students were "infused with the notion that they were being groomed to reform the world."†   (source)
  • When she comes back, I inform her that just one bite of her Red Dye #40—infused snack could kill my brother.†   (source)
  • Slavin was born a hemophiliac in the 1950s, when the only available treatment involved infusions of clotting factors from donor blood, which wasn't screened for diseases.†   (source)
  • I ask, doing what I do best by infusing awkward moments with sarcasm.†   (source)
  • Those stories that Barbara tells —guru What's-His-Name putting his hand on her head in Burma and in that one minute she was infused with knowledge and became a different person —"†   (source)
  • The Italian night sky was crisp and brisk, infused with olives and vine.†   (source)
  • As her mind joined his, new strength infused his body.†   (source)
  • A fish in the dust of the marketplace, trying to swim, while all the other women calmly breathed in that atmosphere of overripe fruit, dried meat, sweat, and spices, infusing their lives with powers I feared.†   (source)
  • When he came in, the pink glow of sunset infusing the walls with a sense of sea warmth and quiet, Rachel was not in her bedroom or the other usual places.†   (source)
  • But somehow I couldn't infuse my voice with the proper outrage.†   (source)
  • He had infused the passing game with two new qualities: dullness and safety.†   (source)
  • Letters and phone calls from him indicated that he was doing well on the practice field, but needed frequent cash infusions to keep his wardrobe up to college standards.†   (source)
  • To start up the machine, you have to infuse those circuits with a collection of rules that tell it how to function.†   (source)
  • But the worship of selling and of celebrity infuses his literature, his guest lists, his radio shows and seminars.†   (source)
  • "Well, well, looks like someone has been infused with spirit of Debbie Harry," he said, wiping some of the lipstick off his chin.†   (source)
  • Joy rushes to their eyes but it is misted over, infused with a sad and complex knowing.†   (source)
  • Right about now, the first of the early-afternoon crowd would be coming in, ordering cappuccinos and lattes, iced tea and herbal infusions.†   (source)
  • In the course of my investigations as to their source, I discovered a large and exceedingly noxious cesspool underlying every part of the cellars, in some places the consistency of a strong infusion of black tea, and in others like viscid soft soap, which was undrained due to the failure of the builders to connect the drains to the main sewer; in addition to which, the water supply for both drinking and washing was drawn through an intake pipe from the lake, in a stagnant bay, close by…†   (source)
  • Feet and legs should be raised, massaged, and swabbed in a warm infusion of willow bark, camphor, and arrowroot.†   (source)
  • My father had infused my childhood with unspoken blame; he was the kind of man who skulked around looking for things to be angry at.†   (source)
  • She made him drink the infusions when he became delirious, and she smothered him in wool blankets to keep away the chills, but at the same time she encouraged him to enjoy his prostration.†   (source)
  • She grew aware of the smell of her own stale sweat with its chemical infusion of fear.†   (source)
  • Because of that determined, perhaps compulsive, personality that demanded so much from herself, she infused some of that spirit into me.†   (source)
  • The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take.†   (source)
  • This created a new interest in the natural sciences and infused new life into the question of the Christian revelation's relationship to Greek philosophy.†   (source)
  • Because that moment was so racially infused (my revulsion at what my school friend wanted: very blue eyes in a very black skin; the harm she was doing to my concept of the beautiful), the struggle was for writing that was indisputably black.†   (source)
  • I memorized the part about the human voice infusing words.†   (source)
  • And then there were the herbs: oil infusions of calamus, mugwort, sage, and wintergreen; cocktails made out of black cohosh and pennyroyal.†   (source)
  • Frank's face looked like it was being infused with cranberry juice.†   (source)
  • Mazen infuses the word with scorn.†   (source)
  • "Robert?" she said, taken aback, a faint perfume infusing the cold air.†   (source)
  • Suddenly many grandparents received a significant cash infusion (topping out at $3 per day, or twice the local median income).†   (source)
  • He made some business decisions last year that required an infusion of capital.†   (source)
  • Goins had been an attack helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War and infused his program with a deep sense of morality.†   (source)
  • His hands shook at his sides as if infused with static electricity.†   (source)
  • Mornings like this, I felt infused with everything that was beautiful about living in San Francisco.†   (source)
  • She seemed unaware of me, and her eyes were infused with a soft light.†   (source)
  • The heady taste of success had infused him further with morality and fired him with ambition for loftier attainments.†   (source)
  • A disgusting odor infused the room.†   (source)
  • Before he went, it seemed like he was infused with hopefulness, that he had a plan: he'd go to MIT for the summer program, then, in the fall, he'd apply to some top colleges-MIT included-and it might all work out.†   (source)
  • When you say remedies, do you mean your solutions, your infusions, or your suspensions?†   (source)
  • No visible changes in her, but again it is the child that concerns me…… With regular infusions of demonic ichor such as I have been giving her, the child may be capable of any feats…… Last night I heard the child's heart beat, more strongly than any human heart, the sound like a mighty bell, tolling the beginning of a new generation of Shadow-hunters, the blood of angels and demons mixed to produce powers beyond any previously imagined possible…… No longer will the power of…†   (source)
  • It was being shipped at this very moment, ready to be whisked to the gateway cities, where it would be infused with the blood banks.†   (source)
  • My adolescence wasn't infused with the civil rights struggle, or the sexual revolution, or the Vietnam War, but with their aftermath.†   (source)
  • At Level I, they were started on intravenous infusions.†   (source)
  • I waited for the invasion, the infusion, the joy.†   (source)
  • And as I found I might reign mistress on board without any offense, I soon exerted my authority with scrapers, mops, brushes, infusions of vinegar, etc., and in a few hours you would have thought yourself in a different ship.†   (source)
  • A good infusion would have served George better than the empty mutterings of a priest.†   (source)
  • Ointments I have, potions and infusions, tinctures and venoms and poultices.†   (source)
  • Paintings are perfect prisons for things like this; secret symbols and guardians can be infused into the materials, images, composition, everything….†   (source)
  • It's the familiar reek that infused my clothes, pillow, and hair for the last two years throughout Mom's rotten egg kick.†   (source)
  • She didn't want to turn away now, from the look that could infuse such warmth through her chilled, damp skin.†   (source)
  • It gives me cause to wonder about your ability to infuse the freshmen with the necessary zeal required for them to become exemplary graduates of the Institute.†   (source)
  • He wanted someone whose presence would, in his own words, "infuse their cause with an immediate tremor of awe and legitimacy."†   (source)
  • The truth, though, is that my father got his first infusion of capital from a ggeh, a Korean "money club" in which members contributed to a pool that was given out on a rotating basis.†   (source)
  • "I see," said Bourne, trying again to infuse naturalness into his voice.†   (source)
  • It's when the exalted one infuses into the body of a scribe sufficient quantities of the sap that flows in the boiling passages of the bony valleys of the moon….†   (source)
  • He felt as though becoming a wizard would change every aspect of his daily life, as if some mystical strength had somehow been infused into his previously incompetent talents.†   (source)
  • Patients must have catheters permanently implanted to receive the infusions.†   (source)
  • Kay still doesn't understand how they "infuse" oil, but I tell her, "Don't question, just enjoy."†   (source)
  • Troy and the rest are the necessary …. infrastructure costs for our next big capital infusion.†   (source)
  • It is as plain as the nose on your pretty but incredibly pale face that you need massive infusions of iron.†   (source)
  • But old folk still use an infusion of the herb for headaches.†   (source)
  • Time's soul it seemed I was, the infinite potentialities that fill the moment, surrounding and infusing the tiny stream of existence, and joyous, joyous, joyous … Spinning, my mind came away, and I sat, still clutching my death ring, across from the little girl who had fled from the terrible flowers, now clad in wet green and very, very wan.†   (source)
  • Dreams and restless thoughts came into his mind, flowing from the water of the river, sparkling from the stars of the night, melting from the beams of the sun, dreams came to him and a restlessness of the soul, fuming from the sacrifices, breathing forth from the verses of the Rig-Veda, being infused into him, drop by drop, from the teachings of the old Brahmans.†   (source)
  • At the single streak of flight, the ears of the race horse lifted, and the eyes of both horses filled with the soft lights of sunset, which in the next instant were reflected in the eyes of the men too as they all looked into the west toward the heron, and all eyes seemed infused with a sort of wildness.†   (source)
  • With the infusion pump we can infuse a tiny amount of the medicine each hour.
  • As the eucalyptus-infused vapors permeated his skin, he could feel his pores opening to the heat.†   (source)
  • Just enough to infuse the memory with fear and doubt.†   (source)
  • LIBAN: Fremen liban is spice water infused with yucca flour.†   (source)
  • I do the only thing I know how to do in awkward situations—infuse them with sarcasm.†   (source)
  • Alyss could feel the Heart Crystal's energy radiating out to her, infusing her.†   (source)
  • It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.†   (source)
  • He dips his head and kisses me, infusing my mouth with the taste of him.†   (source)
  • It was infused with the power of Athena.†   (source)
  • And for the record there are many infused olive oils I like using nowadays.†   (source)
  • A tangible strength transferred in the touch, as if the man were magically infusing her with the calm she needed to do what they were about to do.†   (source)
  • This kind of thinking infused the second half of my life with a conflicted mentality: Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile.†   (source)
  • During the rest of the week the same impetuous mob swarmed into the plazas and alleys of the old neighborhoods with their stores of everything that could be bought and sold, and they infused the dead city with the frenzy of a human fair reeking of fried fish: a new life.†   (source)
  • "Bring the medical kit …. attach an IV to the needle …. infuse lactated Ringer's solution …. get me a blood pressure."†   (source)
  • Yes, Amy is using a Madness song to give me a clue to my own freedom, if only I can decipher their wily, ska-infused codes.†   (source)
  • Over the centuries, residue seeped through the floor, infusing the land beneath with the wine's personality.†   (source)
  • He sat up and looked at Ruth, at her long gangly limbs, at the beautiful body to which he had made love, and felt a sudden warmth infuse him.†   (source)
  • The angry hands that grabbed at his bare shoulders felt as if they were infused with the power of the devil himself.†   (source)
  • Now he was infused with frantic energy.†   (source)
  • The spirit infused Deacon Jackson and Sister Willson, the chairman of the usher board, at the same time.†   (source)
  • After a short rest, Alyss felt infused with power and health, better than she had before running into the Hatters.†   (source)
  • Rhonda could not only keep quiet, she could infuse the room with a mood of her choosing, like an octopus and its ink.†   (source)
  • They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle and infuse their bloodlines in a great new pooling of genes.†   (source)
  • And he thought of how the Fremen were a people whose living consisted of killing, an entire people who had lived with rage and grief all of their days, never once considering what might take the place of either — except for a dream with which Liet-Kynes had infused them before his death.†   (source)
  • The realization that the sisters had gone—fled, most likely, to whatever distant waters— fed the lagoon—somehow infused Rowan's predicament with a reality and weight that Max had not yet had the opportunity to feel.†   (source)
  • The smell that surrounded him was infused with what, with geopolitics, and he waved a towel for five minutes and propped open the window, it kept closing, with a rolled-up copy of Pravda, he was still looking for baseball scores, and then he went and stood in their room and watched Eleanor sleep—she came from a gentle rural place and could easily perish from his reek.†   (source)
  • After a night on Blitzen's tanning bed, the elf's face had a rosy sheen as if he'd been infused with paprika.†   (source)
  • But the flowers, the smell, the movement of the leaves persist, rich, mesmerizing, desolating, infused with grief.†   (source)
  • The power of Athena infused her cloak.†   (source)
  • The Morrigan herself had made the weapon and it was infused with her essence and lust for blood and battle.†   (source)
  • Melquiades talked to him about the world, tried to infuse him with his old wisdom, but he refused to translate the manuscripts.†   (source)
  • He was already soaked in it: he could feel his gear, heavy and sodden, against his body, and could smell the salt-iron tang, as if blood infused the air he was breathing.†   (source)
  • "Thanks for coming with me tonight," I told Jess as I climbed into the passenger seat, trying to infuse my tone with gratitude.†   (source)
  • Your lord father had asked for the crimson of your House, and it was that color I set out to infuse into the metal.†   (source)
  • The sword of the Archangel Michael, that Joshua fought with at Jericho, for it is infused with heavenly fire.†   (source)
  • And the eyes, they burned with a silent rage that seemed infused with vanity, an awful relentless vanity that said, 'See what I am.'†   (source)
  • It was a reporter's nirvana, a place where smash-and-grab robbers stalked tourists with chunks of concrete, where whole skyscrapers stood on foundations of drug money, where the Ton-tons Macoute of Haiti reached across the Florida Straits to kill political enemies, and old men with hatred infusing every cell of their bodies played soldier in the Glades, dreaming of the day they could kill Castro.†   (source)
  • Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.†   (source)
  • The singing is a river that winds through my pain-infused dreams, quiet and sweet, drawing out memories of a life I've nearly forgotten, a life before Blackcliff.†   (source)
  • She lay still beneath the sun, watching him work, remembering days early in their marriage when they'd gone out for long walks in the spring evenings, holding hands, the air infused with scents of honeysuckle and hyacinths.†   (source)
  • But, as the true believer dances on the stage, infused with the Spirit and sure that tenfold-or a hundredfold-rewards are coming, Long might spot some lady in her new dress wince or a newly confident man, fresh from a big promotion, snicker.†   (source)
  • He infused the radioactive tagging substance, a magnesium isotope, into the monkey and calibrated the scanner.†   (source)
  • It depends on how much of the blood we've collected needs to be infused with— How much of the blood you ve collected do you need to save the people who've donated it?†   (source)
  • These ballads were infused with a love enchantment so powerful they didn't merely reduce the listener's inhibitions but eliminated them altogether.†   (source)
  • Incited by the aura of suspicion that Kemp had infused, Schermont, the new spokesman from Caer-Konig, pointed an accusing finger at Jensin Brent of Caer-Dineval.†   (source)
  • Where so much about life at Scripture Cathedral, indeed, meant a withdrawal from this world, the confidence infused in a young boy, standing before six hundred or so parishioners on a Sunday, was a single, buoying item an elevenyear-old Cedric, as a fifth grader, could carry beyond the church's walls.†   (source)
  • Kay has probably never heard of garlic-infused grape-seed oil (she's never used anything but butter or Crisco), but that's what I like to use to fry my frog legs.†   (source)
  • She loved waking to the warm, heavy length of Al sleeping beside her, his hand coming to rest, lightly, on the flat of her belly, the scent of him—fresh soap and Old Spice—slowly infusing the room, the sheets, the towels.†   (source)
  • 8-10 pounds of frog legs
    1 can of beer
    Phil Robertson's Zesty Cajun Style Seasoning
    2 cups flour
    1 stick butter
    1/4 cup garlic-infused grape-seed oil
    2 cups white wine
    bulb of garlic, cloves peeled
    1 cup fresh mushrooms
    Soak frog legs in beer for an hour or so.†   (source)
  • A new sorrow had entered her voice, of a different, perhaps more urgent tone than the one which had infused her reminiscences of the camp.†   (source)
  • Through various conversational stratagems, including more agricultural wisdom leavened by all the good Southern jokes I could extract from memory, I was able to infuse Sophie with enough cheer to make it through the rest of the dinner.†   (source)
  • Sophie scarcely ever heard the music, indeed blanked most of it out, for it was never anything but noisy German backyard schmaltz, Tyrolean joke songs, yodelers, choirs of glockenspiels and accordions, all infused with recurring strains of treacly Trauer and lachrymal outpourings from Berlin cafés and music halls, notably such cries from the heart as "Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen," warbled by Hitler's favorite songbird Zarah Leander and played over and over again with merciless and…†   (source)
  • On and on the voice went, a gentle monologue, lulling, soothing, murmurously infusing her with a sense of repose; it was a soft refrain so sedative indeed that soon she was no longer even embarrassed that the hands of this stranger were greenly stained with her own sour juices, and somehow she regretted that the one thought she had expressed to him, when she had first opened her eyes, had been the impossibly foolish Oh, I think I'm going to die.†   (source)
  • "May I offer you all an infusion of Gurdyroots?" said Xenophilius.†   (source)
  • Powdered root of what to an infusion of what?†   (source)
  • He stirred several lumps of sugar into his Gurdyroot infusion and drank some.†   (source)
  • In the last infusion, a full pint of the fluid was pumped into their veins.†   (source)
  • Less than two ounces of the acid infusion remained.†   (source)
  • METAGLASS: glass grown as a high-temperature gas infusion in sheets of jasmium quartz.†   (source)
  • So it was massive infusions of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, etc., for everyone.†   (source)
  • As if the Gamemakers have sent an infusion of frozen air across the arena, which may be exactly what they've done.†   (source)
  • When Langdon's hand touched her shoulder, the infusion of warmth seemed to magically shatter the ice.†   (source)
  • The infusion of lactated Ringer's solution had successfully raised her blood pressure and quelled her throbbing headache.†   (source)
  • "Well, you see, believers seek the Deathly Hallows," said Xenophilius, smacking his lips in apparent appreciation of the Gurdyroot infusion.†   (source)
  • The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.†   (source)
  • One afternoon, while she was drinking her infusion of worldwide leaves, she looked toward the morass of the patio where the tree of her misfortune would never bloom again.†   (source)
  • Waters boiled with mallow leaves and orange skins were mixed into the bath that lasted over an hour, and the effect on him was so sedative that he sometimes fell asleep in the perfumed infusion.†   (source)
  • He breakfasted en famille but followed his own personal regimen of an infusion of wormwood blossoms for his stomach and a head of garlic that he peeled and ate a clove at a time, chewing each one carefully with bread, to prevent heart failure.†   (source)
  • He prescribed infusions of linden blossoms to calm the nerves and suggested a change of air so he could find consolation in distance, but Florentino Ariza longed for just the opposite: to enjoy his martyrdom.†   (source)
  • A hundred of his own Highgarden men had been added to the gold cloaks, yet plainly his lordship meant to resist any balancing infusion of westermen.†   (source)
  • Her musical chants and infusions.†   (source)
  • Given the old-fashioned way, both drugs require daily intravenous infusions, taking two or three hours to complete.†   (source)
  • If we educate and feed those girls and give them employment opportunities, then the world as a whole will gain a new infusion of human intelligence--and poor countries will garner citizens and leaders who are better equipped to address those countries' challenges.†   (source)
  • They show the blood-soaked seat, the shattered windshield, a dashboard scent infuser tagged with a religious inscription in Spanish.†   (source)
  • I have purged his lordship, bled him, treated him with poultices and infusions …. the mists give him some relief and sweetsleep helps with the violence of his coughing, but he is bringing up bits of lung with the blood now, I fear.†   (source)
  • He has electrical engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate infusion plasma physics from the University of California-Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • The scent infuser is gushing lavender and bougainvillea, so heavily that I can almost see the flow, and on the radio someone is speaking a kind of French, though more grandly Latinesque, the beat honeyed and calyptic; this is a Haitian ship.†   (source)
  • Our plan with the World Health Organization was to collect blood from millions of donors near the gateway cities, categorize and store that blood using every form of refrigeration available, and then prepare it for infusion of the antivirus if and when it was secured.†   (source)
  • It's released in a steady, slow rate, which means you don't have the ups and downs of daily infusions.†   (source)
  • What if, after Lestat's infusion of blood, she'd been put in a grave, closed up in it until the preternatural drive for blood caused her to break the stone door of the vault that held her, what then would her mind have been, starved, as it were, to the breaking point?†   (source)
  • She gazed at him with new approval when she stopped, the lush, responsive tissues of her dark face turning darker still and blooming somnolently with a swelling and beautifying infusion of blood.†   (source)
  • We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.†   (source)
  • I had an impression that, glancing out from the partitions where she observed, with her dotty, smarting, all-interfering face, she was bent on pulling whom she wanted to her, to infuse and instill.†   (source)
  • --Communist pamphlet (5) If a new spirit is to be infused into this old country, there is one thorny and contentious reform which must be tackled, and that is the humanization and galvanization of the B.B.C. Timidity here will bespeak canker and atrophy of the soul.†   (source)
  • Helen went in and out of the sick-room constantly, dominating the dying boy by the power of her vitality, infusing him with moments of hope and confidence.†   (source)
  • Strength comes from the sun, infused in it daily; size from the prostrate earth.†   (source)
  • Even so was it that into the gall of Claggart's envy he infused the vitriol of his contempt.†   (source)
  • Hurstwood's residence could scarcely be said to be infused with this home spirit.†   (source)
  • If you value her conduct or happiness, infuse as much of your own spirit into her as you can.†   (source)
  • Ah, monsieur, you infuse genuine balm into my blood.†   (source)
  • Every moment instructs and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form.†   (source)
  • Stephen infused a yet deeper gravity into the mixed expression of his attentive face.†   (source)
  • The arrival of the Arabian now infused new life into his soul.†   (source)
  • It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain.†   (source)
  • The entrance of Taylor infused fresh spirit into the company, and they remained sitting, till Arabella whispered to her father: "Now we may as well go."†   (source)
  • His tone was so pleading and soothing, infused as it was—but because of his present necessity only with a trace of that old tenderness and seeming helplessness which, at times, had quite captivated Roberta, that even now it served to win her to a bizarre and groundless gratitude.†   (source)
  • Lowering his voice and infusing a hint of reproof into it, he said: "Evie will probably be married in September.†   (source)
  • She spoke excitedly and eagerly, wishing to infuse into her young friend some of that buoyant hope which still clung to her heart.†   (source)
  • …wine—the son of the Fiend, as was reported, and one who had cheated his father at dice when gambling with him for his own soul; Giambattista Cibo, who in mockery took the name of Innocent, and into whose torpid veins the blood of three lads was infused by a Jewish doctor; Sigismondo Malatesta, the lover of Isotta, and the lord of Rimini, whose effigy was burned at Rome as the enemy of God and man, who strangled Polyssena with a napkin, and gave poison to Ginevra d'Este in a cup of…†   (source)
  • AND NOW THY VERY FACE AND FORM, DEAR MOTHER SPEAK TO US OF THE ETERNAL NOT LIKE EARTHLY BEAUTY, DANGEROUS TO LOOK UPON, BUT LIKE THE MORNING STAR WHICH IS THY EMBLEM, BRIGHT AND MUSICAL, BREATHING PURITY, TELLING OF HEAVEN AND INFUSING PEACE.†   (source)
  • She played very well, keeping excellent waltz time and infusing an expression into the strains which was indeed inspiring.†   (source)
  • The sight of the schooner seemed to infuse into the poor, wearied woman the superhuman strength of despair.†   (source)
  • If ever his soul, re-entering her dwelling shyly after the frenzy of his body's lust had spent itself, was turned towards her whose emblem is the morning star, BRIGHT AND MUSICAL, TELLING OF HEAVEN AND INFUSING PEACE, it was when her names were murmured softly by lips whereon there still lingered foul and shameful words, the savour itself of a lewd kiss.†   (source)
  • And in that mood—and because of the urge of the Reverend Duncan, who was convinced by Clyde's confession that he must have been completely infused with the spirit of God, once more thumbing through the various passages and chapters pointed out to him—reading and re-reading the Psalms most familiar to him, seeking from their inspiration to catch the necessary contrition—which once caught would give him that peace and strength which in those long and dreary hours he so much desired.†   (source)
  • Yes, I had a satisfaction in the thought of marrying an inexperienced and artless person, and forming her character, and infusing into it some amount of that firmness and decision of which it stood in need.†   (source)
  • I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.†   (source)
  • Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them.†   (source)
  • I have neither the right nor the intention of examining the supernatural means which God employs to infuse religious belief into the heart of man.†   (source)
  • It seemed to the author, that the existence of the two races in the same country, the vanquished distinguished by their plain, homely, blunt manners, and the free spirit infused by their ancient institutions and laws; the victors, by the high spirit of military fame, personal adventure, and whatever could distinguish them as the Flower of Chivalry, might, intermixed with other characters belonging to the same time and country, interest the reader by the contrast, if the author should…†   (source)
  • Exhausted by emotion, my language was more subdued than it generally was when it developed that sad theme; and mindful of Helen's warnings against the indulgence of resentment, I infused into the narrative far less of gall and wormwood than ordinary.†   (source)
  • One immediately perceived three long parallel streets, unbroken, undisturbed, traversing, almost in a straight line, all three cities, from one end to the other; from North to South, perpendicularly, to the Seine, which bound them together, mingled them, infused them in each other, poured and transfused the people incessantly, from one to the other, and made one out of the three.†   (source)
  • He often tried, in odd half-hours of conversation to infuse into Newman a little of his own spiritual starch, but Newman's personal texture was too loose to admit of stiffening.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to doubt that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.†   (source)
  • He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some of his own spirit into the animal; for, old and broken-down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country.†   (source)
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