How he happened to have come to Africa he did not tell them, leaving them to assume he had forgotten the incidents of his life prior to the frightful ordeals that had wrecked him mentally and physically. He did not even tell them his true name, and so they knew him only as Michael Sabrov, nor was there any resemblance between this sorry wreck and the virile, though unprincipled, Alexis Paulvitch of old.
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.
They struck him as soft--soft
physically; yet he divined them hard in their dealings, but hard under an exterior of supple softness.
But a wise ordinance of Nature has decreed that, in proportion as the working-classes increase in intelligence, knowledge, and all virtue, in that same proportion their acute angle (which makes them
physically terrible) shall increase also and approximate to the comparatively harmless angle of the Equilateral Triangle.
Morally, as well as
physically, it must be said of Lady Lydiard that her outward side was her worst side.
But I soothed and comforted her, till she pulled herself bravely together and recuperated mentally as quickly as she was wont to do
physically.
But she was still the same, and the sight of her affected him the same way,
physically reviving him, stirring him, and filling his soul with rapture.
Physically they were almost a race apart, and out-of-door work had given them a vigour which, when they got over their first shyness on coming to town, developed into a positive carriage and freedom of movement, and made them conspicuous among Black Hawk women.
Her prize consisted in a male about four feet tall, very strong and
physically perfect; also, he learned quickly, and we had considerable amusement, at least I did, over the keen rivalry we displayed.
One of the group was the son of a country minister, another of a judge; John, the unhappiest of all, had David Nicholson to father, the idea of facing whom on such a scandalous subject was
physically sickening.
She had, in fact, undone the kiss, as far as such a thing was
physically possible.
He was suffering
physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could not breathe.