Yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing. Now, it is very ...

and a true mariner's readiness and intentness when there was work to be done. Once, at a conference in Portsmouth, the preacher failed to come, and some one had to furnish a sermon in his place.

The man in Steve Dunwell’s “Sample Weaver” might be seen as a stand-in for visitors to “Your Work Here 2023.” He looks at the machinery he’s operating and his handwork so intently. It’s an intentness ...

Though near nightfall, the ranksmelling weed-flowers glowed as if they would not close for intentness, and the waves of colour mixed with the waves of sound.

but in so great labours and intentness of mind he being so inflamed with study of scripture and the Holy Fathers, grew much distempered with the gravel [disease of the kidneys] with which being long ...