The place was filled with creeping, crawling things; cold, sinuous bodies passed over me when I lay down, and in the darkness I occasionally caught glimpses of gleaming, fiery eyes, fixed in horrible
intentness upon me.
As a protection, she adopted a demeanor of
intentness as if going somewhere.
Seeing Lady Arabella gliding up the stairs towards his master's room, he took it for granted that she was there for no good, and doubled his watching
intentness and caution.
He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry-bushes and crooked firs, with solemn
intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode.
There was a blare of heated rage mingled with a certain expression of
intentness on all faces.
I could imagine her sedately busy among her pots and pans, making a ritual of her household duties, so that they acquired a moral significance; I did not suppose that she was clever or could ever be amusing, but there was something in her grave
intentness which excited my interest.
She was leaning back in the farthest corner of her chair, her head resting slightly upon her fingers, her eyes studying with a curious
intentness the outline of Wingrave's pale, hard face.
He watched them with the
intentness of a panther about to spring upon its prey.
Prince Bagration and Tushin looked with equal
intentness at Bolkonski, who spoke with suppressed agitation.
He had drawn a little on one side and he was watching the young soldier with a curious
intentness. She turned back to her nephew and touched him on the arm.
He stopped and regarded her, all of an
intentness and eagerness, physically expressed, that slowly faded out of him as she turned her head and gazed back at the camp.