1 Music had stirred him like that.
2 You know how a voice can stir one.
3 Her blood, also, stirred within him.
4 Hallward stirred in his chair as if he was going to rise.
5 Some southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress.
6 I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
7 Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
8 Crudely as it had been told to him, it had yet stirred him by its suggestion of a strange, almost modern romance.
9 He remembered the autumn that he had passed there, and a wonderful love that had stirred him to mad delightful follies.
10 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.
11 That curiosity about life which Lord Henry had first stirred in him, as they sat together in the garden of their friend, seemed to increase with gratification.
12 The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything.
13 He would not see Lord Henry any more--would not, at any rate, listen to those subtle poisonous theories that in Basil Hallward's garden had first stirred within him the passion for impossible things.
14 The harsh intervals and shrill discords of barbaric music stirred him at times when Schubert's grace, and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, and the mighty harmonies of Beethoven himself, fell unheeded on his ear.
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 The daily sacrifice, more awful really than all the sacrifices of the antique world, stirred him as much by its superb rejection of the evidence of the senses as by the primitive simplicity of its elements and the eternal pathos of the human tragedy that it sought to symbolize.
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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