SOME EXPLANATIONS Fierce emotions are necessarily transient, but for the hour they exhaust the psychic capacity.

The sailor had gone through such mental stress before it was yet noon that he was benumbed, wholly incapable of further sensation.

Seneca tells how the island of Theresaea arose in a moment from the sea, thereby astounding ancient mariners, as well it might.

Had this manifestation been repeated within a cable's length from the reef, Jenks was in mood to accept it as befitting the new order of things.
Being in good condition, he soon recovered his physical powers.

He was outwardly little the worse for the encounter with the devil-fish.