1 You used to stir my imagination.
2 Music had stirred him like that.
3 You know how a voice can stir one.
4 Now you don't even stir my curiosity.
5 Don't stir, and don't look at me like that.
6 Nothing will induce me to stir a step to help you.
7 Besides, without my stirring in the matter, you are certain to be arrested.
8 I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
9 Three o'clock struck, and four, and the half-hour rang its double chime, but Dorian Gray did not stir.
10 Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
11 His valet had crept several times on tiptoe into the room to see if he was stirring, and had wondered what made his young master sleep so late.
12 That had stirred him at the time, and now, as he stood gazing at the shadow of his own loveliness, the full reality of the description flashed across him.
13 He was like one of those gracious figures in a pageant or a play, whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
14 Some love might come across his life, and purify him, and shield him from those sins that seemed to be already stirring in spirit and in flesh--those curious unpictured sins whose very mystery lent them their subtlety and their charm.
15 The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
16 Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound of men going forth to their work, or the sigh and sob of the wind coming down from the hills and wandering round the silent house, as though it feared to wake the sleepers and yet must needs call forth sleep from her purple cave.
17 He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
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