Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and
morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast.
Very likely the reading of Ossian had something to do with my
morbid anxieties.
Every moment of the man's waking life was filled with
morbid thought of hatred--he had become mentally as he was physically in outward appearance, the personification of the blighting emotion of Hate.
I had never been
morbid. Thoughts of suicide had never entered my head.
I had read in medical books of cases of
morbid nervous sensitiveness exactly similar to the case of Miss Dunross, as described by herself--and that had been enough for me.
As the story of 'Agnes Grey' was accused of extravagant over-colouring in those very parts that were carefully copied from the life, with a most scrupulous avoidance of all exaggeration, so, in the present work, I find myself censured for depicting CON AMORE, with 'a
morbid love of the coarse, if not of the brutal,' those scenes which, I will venture to say, have not been more painful for the most fastidious of my critics to read than they were for me to describe.
Browning's father thenceforth treated her as one dead, but the removal from her
morbid surroundings largely restored her health for the remaining fifteen years of her life.
She shows a
morbid distrust of writing her name at the bottom of any document which I present to her, and roundly declares she will sign nothing.
It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost
morbid irritation.
His mind was in such a state of
morbid distrust that he lowered the blind over the window.
If anyone lift the cloth from the face of that unpleasant thing it will be in gratification of a mere
morbid curiosity.
A few years since there was living on the island of Maui (one of the Sandwich group) an old chief, who, actuated by a
morbid desire for notoriety, gave himself out among the foreign residents of the place as the living tomb of Captain Cook's big toe!--affirming that at the cannibal entertainment which ensued after the lamented Briton's death, that particular portion of his body had fallen to his share.