Suddenness

Suddenness and surprise, staple devices of horror, rebuke our pretensions to control.

Archive 2009-03-15 2009

Suddenness of the Occasion dictate: Which I receiv'd with a pretended

Exilius 2008

However, the Suddenness of the Occasion, join'd with the Law of Nature, which commands Self − Defence, I hope will plead my Excuse, in some Degree, in the Minds of moderate and judicious Persons.

Exilius 2008

Effects, I am surprized at the Suddenness, as well as Greatness of this Revolution.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776, "Your Favour of June 17..." 1963

Suddenness in the emotions prompted him to distrust.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

Suddenness aggravates evil (compare Pr 6: 11; 29: 1). calamity -- literally, "a crushing weight." broken -- shivered as a potter's vessel; utterly destroyed (Ps 2: 9).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

When he called to Mind the Suddenness of his being sent away in an Affair which required no such Haste, it was but too evident, and his

The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr��billon 1742

Mrs. _Sinclair's_ Death is very different; the Suddenness of her

Remarks on Clarissa (1749) Sarah Fielding 1739