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Definition: Touching; profoundly affecting the emotions
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The Three Sisters - By May Sinclair
...It was also more tender and more poignant, as if in soaring Jim 's rapture gave him pain ....
The Head of the House of Coombe - By Frances Hodgson Burnett
...There was something poignant about her delicate distraught loveliness and, in the remoteness of his being, a shuddering knowledge that it was quite true that she would do anything for any man who would take care of her, produced an effect on him nothing else would have produced ....
The History of Sir Richard Calmady - By Lucas Malet
...And all this, taken in connection with his words just uttered, affected her to so great and poignant a love, so great and poignant a fear of losing him, that she dared not trust herself to make any comment on those same words lest the flood-gates of emotion should be opened and she should lose her self-control ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret; but he yielded completely, and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must necessarily sink beneath his former level ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...The idea that he could ever, in his senses, have dreamed of marrying the Countess Olenska had become almost unthinkable, and she remained in his memory simply as the most plaintive and poignant of a line of ghosts ....
Sense and Sensibility - By Jane Austen
...She was stronger alone, and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be ....
Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...I have a dim half-remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing; darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress more poignant; and then long spells of oh...
Ethan Frome - By Edith Wharton
...Such tastes and acquirements in a man of his condition made the contrfet more poignant between his outer situation and hts V inner needs, and I hoped that the chance of giving expression to the latter might at least unseal his lips ....
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - By Jane Austen
...And there, as they slowly paced the gradual ascent, heedless of every group around them, seeing neither sauntering politicians, bustling housekeepers, flirting girls, nor nursery-maids and children, they could indulge in those retrospections and acknowledgments, and especially in those explanations of what had directly preceded the present moment, which were so poignant and so ceaseless in interest ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...It was of a much less poignant nature than what the others excited; but Sir Thomas was considering his happiness as very deeply involved in the offence of his sister and friend; cut off by it, as he must be, from the woman whom he had been pursuing with undoubted attachment...
Kim - By Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling
...A mile down the hill, on the edge of a pine forest, two half-frozen men--one powerfully sick at intervals--were varying mutual recriminations with the most poignant abuse of the Babu, who seemed distraught with terror ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton, Philip M. Parker
...The idea that he could ever, in his senses, have dreamed of marrying the Countess Olenska had become almost unthinkable, and she remained in his memory simply as the most plaintive and poignant of a line of ghosts ....
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - By James Joyce
...Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one tiny human point, the window of a shrivelled soul, poignant and self-embittered ....
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - By Robert Louis Stevenson
...He had now seen the full deformity of that creature that shared with him Borne of the phenomena of consciousness, and was co-heir with him to death : and beyond these links of community, which in themselves made the most poignant part of his distress, he thought of Hyde, for all his energy of life, as of isome-thing not only hellish but inorganic ....
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, A. B. Wenzell
...He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm ....
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - By Robert Louis Stevenson
...With Jekyll, it was a thing of-vital instinct Ho had now seen the full deformity of that creature that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness, and was co-heir with him to death : and beyond these links of community, which in themselves made the most poignant part of his distress, he thought of Hyde, for all his energy of life, as of something not only hellish but inorganic ....
The portrait of a lady - By Henry James
...But conscious observation of a lovely woman had struck him as the finest entertainment that the world now had to offer him, and if the interest should become poignant, he flattered himself that he could carry it off quietly, as he had carried other discomforts ....