Word: keens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thou art the keen thorn that dost bid me beware...
Thou fliest forth from it, a keen stinging...
...cannot think of it without an indefinable personal sense of terror, as if what he that night saw was impending over the life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...
...friends, you know," continued the stranger. "I am your best friend - in disguise; and you are to come with me and see Alice. I am her friend, too. And the sun is down, and there is a great flag hung across the sky . . . Do you see that long keen sword over there? That is mine - and yours...
...only too eager when I thought that Rose was probably the fair one for whom I was searching. I followed, and was led to a little room in the top of the house. On entering, I saw at a glance it was a domestic's room. My disappointment was keen. The lady explained that one of her servants had been suddenly taken ill, and, as her family physician was out of town, she had called me. I felt of the servant's pulse, and counted 323 beats per minute. Then, taking from my pocket a little vial of homoeopathic pills...