I used to wonder in those days, and still am surprised anew as again I turn over these letters, at the amount of what I might call suggestiveness in Wyman. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
Kafila on the random accusation of "suggestiveness" by various censors in India. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
One is conscious throughout of a careful anxiety that every avenue to "suggestiveness" shall be just hinted and at once decently veiled. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions and Comments] Reference
There was no element of suggestiveness in the words. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
Notice the suggestiveness of the adjectives as in the reference to. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
Here was a mine of gold, a treasure-house of suggestiveness and wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
In the first place, the delicious suggestiveness of the name, -- Martha's. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
"Chaos" we have in the Tate Gallery, full of suggestiveness and interest. From Wordnik.com. [Watts (1817-1904)] Reference
This suggestiveness was lost upon Catherine, who repeated her violent inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Square] Reference
The suggestiveness must naturally arise from the innocent freedom of village life. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
Some of the leaflets and literature distributed were dangerous in their suggestiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Home Missions in Action] Reference
Any good textile must impress itself upon the mind by its suggestiveness and beauty of color. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
They are full of thought and suggestiveness, and are marked by that rare beauty of style which. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
This weird suggestiveness is found in still greater vividness in another poem entitled "The Lake.". From Wordnik.com. [Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans] Reference
The Illinois town of Normal is the typical American town for more than the suggestiveness of its name. From Wordnik.com. [What Does It Mean to 'Support The Troops?'] Reference
The breezy freshness and natural suggestiveness of varied nature in its wild state was completely fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [Russell H. Conwell] Reference
I want once more to insist on the value of good conversation, more particularly because of its suggestiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
"The lady is rather behind the time, I think -- isn't she?" said the reverend gentleman, with mild suggestiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Whenever he entered any of the discussions, all were benefited by the clearness and suggestiveness of his remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
She is, of course, the master of purring feline suggestiveness, and it's a pleasure to welcome her to the party here. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to The Wild Party ! Dangerous, Seedy ��� Fantastic] Reference
The deep and affecting suggestiveness of that wide contrast his mind was, no doubt, too weak thoroughly to appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The artist may use the rhythms of music, line and color, the suggestiveness of words, in the interests of ideal values. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
"They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.". From Wordnik.com. [Hearts of Darkness] Reference
One teacher has re-arranged Series in Foreign Grammars in such a manner that he finds a natural suggestiveness between the words. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
In short, the novelette reads like an amalgamation of Novalis without his philosophy, Waekenroder without his suggestiveness, and. From Wordnik.com. [Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei] Reference
On one side of the forehead there was a dark mark, half wound, half bruise -- a mere nothing but for its terrible suggestiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The power of that image, like many in this fascinating book, resides in its suggestiveness, in what it hints at rather than records. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Two Songs by Mark Power] Reference
We shall wait long for the silver suggestiveness such as Barrymore gives us when Peter gets his first glimpse of Mary, Duchess of Towers. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
A graduate of Cornell, in the class of '05, after placing away his diploma where it could not trouble him through suggestiveness, accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Engineering] Reference
The word 'thought' is so loosely used that a definition of terms must precede our estimate of Mr. Parker's suggestiveness and originality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
There came a smile to the detective's face, a smile that was thrilling in its suggestiveness, as he laid the letter on the table and said. From Wordnik.com. [Two Wonderful Detectives Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill] Reference
The road which delivers the Cumberland coal, however, is truly exceptional for splendor of scenery, as well as for historical suggestiveness and engineering science. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
You might be in the south of England rather than in the "black north" of Ireland; and you are struck with the probably accidental suggestiveness of the name -- Tor Bay. From Wordnik.com. [A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune] Reference
Hence there has been on their part an ardent pursuit of hitherto undreamed-of sins, whose aura of suggestiveness has not been rubbed off by previous artistic expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
The verbal style of the ballads, like their spirit, is vigorous and simple, generally unpolished and sometimes rough, but often powerful with its terse dramatic suggestiveness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
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