"Intentness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moment from the dark corners, and the growing light was just enough to reveal every movement I made to any who might be watching. For, even then, and while I was still half dazed and stupid, I knew perfectly well that someone was watching me all the time with the utmost intentness. I had not merely awakened; I had ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... a hungry craving in her eyes over which the lids were drawn to a slit. There was a fierce intentness in the gaze: the look of the runner who has almost reached the goal ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock
... propped him up; he looked round rather wildly from one to the other. His face cleared. His eye fell upon Pringle, where it rested with a steady intentness. When he spoke, at last, ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... himself on a stone bench that overlooked the lake. His eyes followed the darting figures of the skaters with a certain intentness. ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell
... her—she did not know why. A certain crafty gleam of his eyes, perhaps, strangely blended with a bold intentness as he had looked at her; a too effusive manner; a smoothly ingratiating smile—these evidences of character somehow made her link ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
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