1 He was the usual cut-and-dry apothecary, of no particular age and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent, and about as emotional as a bagpipe.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 2 He never held forth; his ideas were really not vital enough for it, he was too confused and emotional.
3 It was far more interesting than art, than literature, poor emotional half-witted stuff, was this technical science of industry.
4 But Clifford knew that when it did come to the emotional and human life, these self-made men were of a mental age of about thirteen, feeble boys.
5 Let man slide down to general idiocy in the emotional and 'human' mind, Clifford did not care.
6 The curious pulpy part of him, the emotional and humanly-individual part, depended on her with terror, like a child, almost like an idiot.
7 But this astute and practical man was almost an idiot when left alone to his own emotional life.
8 'Yes,' she said slowly, thinking of him listening with vacant face to the emotional idiocy of the radio.
9 A meaning of the phrase forced itself upon the attention; and an emotional listener's fetichistic mood might have ended in one of more advanced quality.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 10 He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh, and indirectly bore evidence that ideal physical beauty is incompatible with emotional development and a full recognition of the coil of things.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 11 The next day was passed in mere mechanical deeds of preparation, both the women being anxious to immerse themselves in these to escape the emotional aspect of the situation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 12 Mrs. Yeobright's exertions, physical and emotional, had well-nigh prostrated her; but she continued to creep along in short stages with long breaks between.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 13 You could hardly conceive a less emotional subject.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson 14 Hopkins's writing shows considerable agitation, and he is not an emotional man.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 15 Even the excitement caused by the swooning spell that overtook Charles' plump emotional aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had the quality of a nightmare.